Word: isolationist
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...article in the new, fortnightly War and the Working Class, Soviet trade-union publication, named U.S. Publishers William R. Hearst, Joseph M. Patterson, Robert R. McCormick and Scripps-Howard's Roy W. Howard as "representing reactionary, defeatist, isolationist circles whose anti-Soviet campaign is designed to throw suspicion on Soviet foreign policy." Said War and the Working Class: "They circularize false, fabricated conflicts between the Soviet Union and its allies-a line which fully corresponds to the interests of Hitler's agents who are speculating on disruption...
...TIME might have said that "almost all" (instead of "many") officers think Kimmel and Short's immediate dismissal was both just and sufficient punishment. It may well be that future historians will blame Pearl Harbor less on the luckless commanders than on national overoptimism, complacency, isolationist psychology and the custom of getting tight on Saturday night...
...United States Senate. . . . Yet there must come a time when the debate must be held and when it will be necessary to have the worst said that can be said-because any course that America and other nations adopt must be strong enough to withstand the speeches of isolationist Senators...
Author of the plan is pint-sized, vitriolic Clarence Budington Kelland, G.O.P. National Committeeman from Arizona, longtime fictioneer for the Saturday Evening Post (Sugarfoot, Arizona), onetime tub-thumping isolationist (Pearl Harbor changed his mind). A bitter-end Republican, he caused a rumpus in Manhattan's famed Dutch Treat Club by stating, in May 1940, that the Fifth Column in America was headed "by that fellow in the White House...
...French Canadians, still isolationist although many of their sons are serving overseas. A Gallup Poll last week asked: "Should men conscripted for military service be sent overseas [as volunteers are] or kept in Canada as at present?" British Canadians replied: 56% for sending all draftees; 15% for sending some; 21% against sending any; 8% undecided. French Canadians replied: 15% for sending all; 15% for sending some; 66% against sending any; 4% undecided...