Word: isolationist
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...really ready to take on all the onerous and hazardous chores of world participation? In Paris, after a particularly sour session of the Big Four "peace conference," Senator Arthur Vandenberg wryly remarked: "Life was simple for me when I was an isolationist. Another couple of days of this and I'll be more isolationist than ever...
...laid aside his crayons for good, his Injun Summer was still the most popular cartoon that ever came out of the Midwest. In recent years his crosshatched, mild-&-mellow drawings, fussy and cluttered-up by modern standards, have all but vanished from Colonel Robert R. McCormick's isolationist, Anglophobic pages. McCutcheon's pen scratched its best when dipped in the milk of human kindness, and one-eyed Carey Orr's vitriol is more to the Colonel's taste. McCutcheon, in failing health, did not mind the eclipse; his kind of cartooning had brought...
After five years and four months of Halifax, the U.S. knew him better. He had ridden out boos and picket lines. In Detroit, when angry, isolationist groups of U.S. mothers had thrown eggs and tomatoes at him, Lord Halifax had replied: "Let them have a good time for their money." The Nazis had killed one of his three sons in Egypt; another had lost both legs in the battle of Alamein. The U.S. gradually came to respect, and almost to like, his stiff upper...
Then the committee got set for opposition witnesses. To the surprise of everybody, only three turned up: crusty, 92-year-old "General" Jacob Sechler Coxey, hero of the 1894 March on Washington; one John Bond Trevor, of the American Coalition, a loose-knit, isolationist organization; and a New York automobile dealer named Hamilton Fish...
...Leningrad janitor, he was the only member of the All-Union Soviet of Trades Unions Secretariat to survive the purge of 1937. As Russian leaders go, he has a wide horizon: he made two wartime excursions to trade-union conferences in Britain. But he is isolationist enough to cultivate a bushy, eminently Russian mustache...