Word: isolationist
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...more: he completely and final ly dissociated himself from isolationist elements in the G.O.P. And he sought to disabuse any who might think that the G.O.P., under President Dewey, would be for a soft peace. Said he: "The military defeat of Germany and Japan must be complete and crushing...
...Bennett Champ Clark, who never forgets a grudge. (His oldest grudge: in 1912 young Franklin Roosevelt, 30, helped swing the Democratic convention to Woodrow Wilson and away from the Senator's father, the late Speaker Champ Clark.) Yet Bennett Clark, campaigning for his own third term, swallowed his isolationist line and pledged himself to support Franklin Roosevelt's peace program...
Jackass Age. Cotton Ed was a conscientious objector to the 20th Century. He walked out of the 1936 Democratic Convention in high dudgeon because a Negro preacher read a prayer. He was a drag-end isolationist. He was a believer in poll taxes; he was never heard to protest a Southern lynching; and he stood prepared to filibuster to the end against an anti-lynching bill. He decorated his speeches by "pings" at a spittoon ten feet away, or if there were no spittoons, he would spit on the Senate carpet...
Before the war he sometimes talked like a mild isolationist. Now he champions the idea of a new world peace structure in which all nations, big & little, will have a voice at a common council...
...chapter describing his 1940 mission to Europe which was undertaken in the fragile hope that the "phony" war might somehow be halted before the real shooting began. Welles had no authority to commit the U.S. to war, but he managed discreetly to suggest that his country might change its isolationist mind if a Nazi victory seemed imminent. The portraiture in Welles's European travelogue rings clear and true. The late Count Ciano is shown boldly expressing his contempt for German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop and his antagonism toward Hitler. Mussolini astonished Welles by seeming inert, ponderous and static. His close...