Word: isolationist
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They lambasted the U.S. Army's "military caste" system, deplored the absence of a strong U.S. foreign policy, thought that America was still isolationist because it had failed to send enough food to feed Europe...
Citizen Stassen did a little politicking on his own. In rapid-fire interviews he: 1) praised General MacArthur's occupation policy; 2) came out for universal military training; 3) said he would not support isolationist G.O.P. Senator Henrik Shipstead for re-election next year; 4) hoped he could liberalize the G.O.P. Then he retired to catch up on his reading, before beginning a speech-making tour...
...writing about the last five years in terms of Morey Vinion, the "liberal" editor of his brother-in-law's "conservative" paper. After the Nazi invasion, Morey conies out for aid to Russia and collides head-on with the paper's Red-baiting, policymaking, Mammon-serving, isolationist business manager. He chucks his job, joins the Navy, becomes the cook on a destroyer...
...Even comic-strip characters had entered the debate. Isolationist Orphan Annie complained that "international gangsters" aided by "politicians" had stolen Daddy Warbucks' atomic secrets, and Saddlesoap Jones in Smilin' Jack bought a B-29 and two atomic bombs from the government to blast a hurricane (see cuts...
...isolationist Chicago Tribune characteristically said: "We must make very sure that we have the most atom bombs and the best airplanes in which to fly them." Representative Rankin was of like mind: "Let us keep the strongest air force on earth as well as the strongest Navy; then, if the international conference does collapse because of Communistic pressure from the other side, then let us look after America...