Word: isolationist
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...once a member of a 'front' organization, the League of American Writers. So I was. And I led the non-Communist members out of it. ... If [Mr. Dies] checks further, he will find that the League's official attitude toward the war, at that time, was Isolationist, and (isn't it wonderful?) not very different from Hearst...
...first overt act by Germany against the U.S. in World War II was the torpedoing of the freighter Robin Moor, six months before Pearl Harbor. The sinking brought a burning rebuke from Franklin Roosevelt, touched off new verbal skyrockets in the already explosive isolationist-interventionist debate. North Dakota's Senator Nye "guessed" that the British had sunk her-then hastily retracted. For obvious reasons, Germany kept...
...Wendell Willkie has not formally jumped into the 1944 race. He came closest last week, announcing that he would certainly enter the Illinois Presidential primary if Chicago Tribune Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick is also a candidate. (Colonel McCormick had been proposed for the nomination by a Chicago isolationist group...
Back of the Hand. Developing this thesis, Freshman Luce took a bold slap at President Roosevelt. Said she: "Until 1937, Franklin Roosevelt was the world's outstanding isolationist. For years he was famed for his blithe indifference to the oneness of the world in every chancellery in Europe and Asia. His public approval, for example, of Munich is a matter of public record...
...Issue Decided. Confronted with this issue, isolationist Dev left off reading speeches written ten years ago. He rejected the idea of a coalition' cabinet as a "mixum-gatherum affair." The thought of "bargaining" with Britain, the obstacle to the union of northern and southern Ireland, made him "sick...