Word: isolationist
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...Harvard Liberal Union was founded late in 1940 as a protest against the isolationist attitude taken by the Harvard Student's Union, pursuant to the national attitude of the American Student's Union, which fell in with the Communist "Imperialist war' publicity...
...lumbering, good-natured Senator Edwin Carl. Johnson of Colorado, conservative and once isolationist, is no statesman. But he is: 1) a hardworking, courageous public servant; 2) an able politician whose sensitivity to public opinion has carried him from beginnings as a railroad laborer to four terms in the Colorado Legislature, one term as Lieutenant Governor, two terms as Governor, and his present second term in the U.S. Senate. These attributes are what gave significance to the Chicago speech last week in which long rebellious Ed Johnson blasted Franklin Roosevelt hardest of any Democratic Senator...
...Grey-Hairs. Willkie himself hedged not at all to win isolationist support. In Appleton, he said that any Republican who had the narrow nationalist support of the Chicago Tribune would go down to defeat. In Green Bay, he declared "I am in complete disagreement with the President's Vichy policy, his Darlan policy, and his dealings with the Fascist forces of Italy." But he forthrightly defended his own international sympathies, his early espousal of Lend-Lease ("I never will be prouder of anything in my life...
Last week the President searched for a compromise which would not leave pro-New Deal C.I.O. out in the election-year cold. Franklin Roosevelt did not want A.F. of L.'s 6.5 million members to withdraw into a long, disastrous fit of isolationist sulks. But he did want C.I.O. to be happy...
...victory, think Germany is the No. 1 enemy. But both have difficulty finishing the sentence: "Canada is fighting this war because . . ." Jack favors compulsory savings to put the war on a pay-as-you-go basis, but Jacques, being a voluble foe of anything remotely like compulsion, does not. Isolationist Jacques, unlike Jack, thinks Canada's armed forces should be kept at home, for defense...