Word: isolationist
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...people did more than reject a tradition against extra Presidential terms. They reversed a historic decision of 25 years ago, when the U.S. embraced isolationism after World War I. In the 1944 election no isolationist could find comfort. The people had spoken for international cooperation...
...voters showed their internationalist sympathies in ousting Republicans. To defeat went North Dakota's slippery Isolationist Gerald P. Nye, Pennsylvania's Isolationist James J. ("Puddler Jim") Davis, and Connecticut's John Danaher. All were replaced by men pledged to U.S. cooperation in world affairs: Governor John Moses in North Dakota, Congressman Francis J. Myers in Pennsylvania, and ex-U.S. Assistant Attorney General Brien McMahon in Connecticut...
Illinois. Senator Scott Lucas, a downstate New Dealer backed by Mayor Ed Kelly's machine, might squeeze through even if Illinois voted for Dewey. Opponent Richard Lyons, favorite of the Chicago Tribune and twice blessed by Tom Dewey, is splenetically anti-New Deal and isolationist...
Missouri. Pious, indecisive Republican Governor Forrest Donnell (who is popularly believed to consult his law books before deciding to go to the men's room) was favored over C.I.O.-backed Democrat Roy McKittrick, who defeated veteran Isolationist Senator Bennett Clark...
...Compulsion. In isolationist Quebec, "conscription" is a fighting word. In deference to Quebec, Prime Minister King had always insisted that there should be no compulsion on any Canadian to serve outside of Canada. Now he had summoned his Cabinet to hear Defense Minister James Layton Ralston, just back from overseas. The Canadian casualty toll, 61,295 in September, was up more than 10,000 since Aug. 1. Since then, the Canadian infantry in France had suffered fur ther heavy losses. The question before the Cabinet: were there enough reinforcements to support the Canadian Army abroad adequately, or had the time...