Word: isolationist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that ex-Governor Stassen lacked confidence in his ability to beat isolationist, four-term Senator Henrik Shipstead in the GOPrimaries next July. Stassenites were fully confident that they already had the man to beat Shipstead. He was tall, horny-handed Edward John Thye, who garnered the biggest vote and the biggest majority in Minnesota history when he was elected governor...
Will UNO Work? The onetime rabid isolationist reaffirmed his faith in a United Nations: "I do not share the melancholy pessimism heard in some quarters." Some phases of the London record, of course, were disappointing: "I confess that in this first meeting of the United Nations I missed the uplifting and sustaining zeal for a great, crusading, moral cause which seemed to imbue the earlier Charter sessions at San Francisco." He had sensed "a tendency to relapse into power politics ... to use the United Nations as a self-serving tribune rather than as a tribunal...
Unless the U.S. suicidally weakens her own strength, turns isolationist, falls prey to internal disintegration, or, worst of all, gets confused and cynical about her own moral and political principles, a major war is unlikely in the next fifteen years. Beyond that observers could not see so clearly. But as W. Averell Harriman, retiring U.S. Ambassador to Russia, said this week: "There will be no war if we, as a country, remain strong, physically and spiritually...
...said they thought political union a fine idea, but "not yet." Quebec's free-thinking Senator Telesphore Damien Bouchard believed in "closer and closer relations." John L. McDougall, Queen's University economist, neatly sidestepped: "Weight of isolationist opinion in the United States is [such] that I think the question inopportune. . . ." AILothers replied with a flat negative...
When Halifax was sent to Washington in the early days of 1941, he accepted a burden which Winston Churchill called "as momentous as any that the monarchy has entrusted to an Englishman in the lifetime of any of us." Through the trying years of the isolationist debate and the greatest war coalition in history, he won the resounding respect of the U.S. for himself and for his country...