Word: isolationist
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...melirfternationalists for insisting that the Mackinac Charter pledge itself not to give away American sovereignty. When the President took the same stand, was he isolationist? In hot and heavy debate, internationalists had insisted that "sovereignty" was a wicked, isolationist word. Now the Rooseveltians would have to mix it in with the rest of their omnibus platform...
Those who knew their Canadian history could hardly believe their ears: Henri Bourassa advised French Canadians, when there was no candidate for the isolationist Bloc Populaire, to vote for the socialist C.C.F. On second thought, Canadians realized that the advice was not so surprising after all. Henri Bourassa simply believed that the C.C.F. was likely to be more nationalistic than other parties opposing the Bloc, acted accordingly...
Oregon Republicans rejected Senator Rufus Holman last week, and as a result the Republican Party looked a bit brighter all over the U.S. For bumbling Rufus Holman, 66, was an isolationist, a party hack, a reactionary, a labor baiter. His conqueror, making his first try for political office, was Wayne Lyman Morse, young (43), an internationalist, for two years the most effective member of Franklin Roosevelt's War Labor Board...
Since Pearl Harbor, Wisconsin's keen, bouncy Senator Robert Marion La Follette Jr., a prewar isolationist, has maintained an almost-unbroken silence on foreign affairs. Last week, at the convention of his own Progressive Party, he spoke. War has not changed Bob La Follette very much. Said...
...that Hitler, too, was once a silly-looking seditionist who used his trial as a forum for spreading propaganda and winning new converts. The Chicago Tribune, favorite organ of most of the defendants, wrote indulgently of the "crackpots" who were the victims of a New Deal "smear campaign" against isolationist Congressmen...