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...General's Views. One question on which the Miller letters threw no light was whether General MacArthur is an isolationist. This question was of serious concern since much of his support has come from such extreme isolationists as Colonel Robert R. McCormick.† Then last week Manhattan Lawyer Henry Breckenridge, onetime Democrat and onetime close friend of Charles A. Lindbergh, shed light on this issue. In a letter to the Herald Tribune, he quoted a telegram General MacArthur sent from Manila in 1940 to William Allen White's Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies. Said General...
...Whoever He May Be." The candidate's smile was brief. Huddled with the newsmen in the bedroom, he asked them again & again: "What does it mean?" Was the nation more isolationist than he had thought? Had the Wisconsin voters repudiated his principles? Or him personally? He decided it was partly both. But he had no regrets. "I'm glad I made the fight," he said. "I'd do the same thing if I had it to do over again." At midnight he went...
Wisconsin disagreed - with both. The state that had done the voting seemed to know what it had done, and why. The carefully edited Milwaukee Journal -which had backed Willkie - now agreed with the result, and spoke up for all Wisconsin, "We're not isolationist." What had happened was not a simple thing to see in all the jungle of possible meanings. Wisconsin had clearly voted no confidence in global good will and a foreign policy of generalities. They had voted against the "crusade" kind of internationalism - against a crusade which had never been clearly defined, which was hopelessly confused...
...home, Mr. King's determined effort to shape the new world satisfies an emergent, self-confident Canada's sovereign aims. His position squares with 1) Canada's claims to a seat on future Pan American councils, 2) the fierce intranationalism of ardently isolationist French Canada, which has always supported Mr. King's noncommittal policy toward the Commonwealth. But the Prime Minister has a ticklish question to answer: Does his policy square with the tide of Commonwealth opinion running strongly in Britain and the other Dominions? Balance for Britain? In Britain, no less than in Canada, there...
...Senate, he was a 90% New Dealer. An early and savage isolationist, he switched in 1941 to follow the Roosevelt policy down the line. Since the departure of Arizona's Henry Ashurst in 1941, he was the Senate's best exponent of lush oratory, combined with a delicate irony that was so unanswerably pat that it choked his opposition into helpless gurgles of rage. Fortnight ago, in bitter argument with Missouri's Bennett Clark, he cooed: "My remarks probably creep into his drab life like a gleam of supernal sunshine. I merely want to elevate...