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What had happened to Harold Stassen in the Nebraska primary? He had invaded the state, asked Nebraska Republicans to repudiate old-line, isolationist Senator Hugh Butler, and give the G.O.P. senatorial nomination to liberal Governor Dwight Griswold. The result: a landslide for Butler. Had presidential aspirant Stassen dived under a steamroller or just got his finger caught in a wringer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: What Hit Him? | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

Ever since Munich Senator Austin had been a valiant anti-isolationist. He had risked political extinction and the taunts of many a Republican colleague by fighting for a compulsory military training bill in 1940. When other Senators argued that Lend-Lease would surely lead the U.S. to war, Warren Austin replied: "There are many things worse than war. A world enslaved by Hitler is much worse than war; it is worse than death. And a country whose boys will not go out and fight to save Christianity and the principles of freedom-well, you won't find such boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Even Stephen | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

Politically, they were often farther apart than Chicago and New York. While Bertie McCormick loosed isolationist and reactionary thunderbolts from his Midwestern stronghold, Joe Patterson won a reputation as a liberal (liberals were also isolationists then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Passing of a Giant | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

...Rogers campaigner went on the air to rattle a few skeletons in the Patterson closet: 1) the left-wing supported candidate was a turncoat Republican; 2) he had been a vociferous isolationist; 3) in 1940 he had called F.D.R. a warmonger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Party? | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

...enjoyed the effect, although he was a little flabbergasted when the Japs struck Pearl Harbor. Having followed an isolationist line, he now said lamely: "When the nation is attacked every American must rally to its defense." Overshadowed by the war, he sulked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Moth & The Flame | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

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