Word: isolationist
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Jacob S. Coxey, "General" of the famed tatterdemalion army of unemployed that marched from Ohio on Washington in 1894, still full of fight at 91, gave a Chicago isolationist gathering something to wrestle with: "The Government takes 20% out of your salary to pay you in terest on the 10% you have deducted from your salary to buy bonds. . . . Then they have to tax the people so the Government can pay interest to the banks, so the banks will support Government bonds upon which money is issued...
Actually, Jeffers had a keener perception of war's realities than some of his critics. Back in 1939, he had stoutly spoken up at Council Bluffs, Iowa, in the heart of the isolationist Midwest: "We must make no mistake about it. It is up to the American people to support the Allies with ammunition and supplies whether we like it or not." These remarks roused the ire of many an isolationist, and posters were even circulated urging passengers to stay off the U.P., but Jeffers went right ahead getting himself and his railroad ready for war. He laid...
...express its hope that an American President might be reelected. The comment led almost to an international incident. 'How dare a British paper try to influence the highly intelligent citizens of the great republic?' And in that cry against the impious, none was more loud than the isolationist press, Anglophobe and Russophobe...
...always interesting to hear what Americans think and, coming from any other source, Mr. Churchill might value the testimonial. But when the rabid isolationist press starts backing him he should take warning...
...Last Supper") to the New York Daily News's poison penman John O'Donnell. Even before the conference opened, O'Donnell said that "nothing ever was staged in this generation on such a scale of mass hypocrisy and global double cross." The News's isolationist sister, the Chicago Tribune, had already passed similar judgment : "The prime purpose . . . is to make certain that whenever the next war comes . . . we shall...