Word: isolationist
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...varied. He has been married five times, sired four children, kissed the late Jean Harlow on the Capitol steps, and is the only U.S. Senator to shoot an enraged bull walrus at 20 feet. For ten years he has been a labor-baiting, immigrant-hating demagogue, an implacable isolationist with Fascist trimmings and Fascist friends. U.S. Fascist opinion of him (as expressed by Fascist Lawrence Dennis): "No brains." This week Senator Reynolds announced he would not run for re-election next year. No tears fell...
Minor Statesman Connally, and those in the Administration who had advised him into timidity, were wrong. They had anticipated heavy opposition from onetime isolationists, realizing no more than Walter Winchell how dead the old-fashioned isolationism is. So Tom Connally had polished and burnished his Resolution down to harmless generalities. But in five days of dull mumbling and set-piece speeches, only one bigtime isolationist-Montana's irreconcilable Burt Wheeler-rose in routine wrath. In fact, Tom Connally was pushed and prodded, badgered and heckled by a bloc of tough-minded internationalists ("The Willful Fourteen") who were...
...Although some critics regard Dewey as an opportunist who jumped on the internationalist bandwagon after the horses were in full gallop, he was never really an "isolationist." He concedes: "Certainly I have changed my views on foreign policy. Everyone has." But he favored Lend-Lease, military preparedness, decided before Pearl Harbor that the U.S. would have to go to war. His ambiguous record as a Presidential candidate in 1940 was dictated by 1) his emotional distaste for war ("I suppose at heart I am really a pacifist") and 2) political caution...
...first time since Pearl Harbor, North Dakota's die-hard isolationist Senator Gerald P. Nye, who mortally hates and fears the British Empire, got himself some real headlines. Last week Gerald Nye told the press: the Senate, probably by Nov. 1, will launch a thoroughgoing investigation of all U.S. Lend-Lease expenditures. The investigating Senators (including Nye, Maryland's Millard E. Tydings and Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar) will look suspiciously into all U.S. funds spent abroad. Nye, longtime enemy of Lend-Lease, explained: "We don't know enough about what this country is doing abroad...
...each member of this band, Russia is an island lashed by angry capitalist waves. Each distrusts the outer world. Each, essentially, is comparable to a U.S. Midwestern isolationist set against a Red background. The band's motto is the old Russian proverb: "S volkami zhit, po volchii zhit"-"He that lives among wolves must learn to howl." With the capitalist wolves, these men propose to talk the wolfish language of power politics-tough, unsentimental, strongarm...