Word: isolationist
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Natural Death. Senator Lodge is the grandson of the late Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, the great World War I archfoe of Woodrow Wilson's League of Nations. In the days of the prewar, interventionist-isolationist debate, he was often on the side of the isolationists...
Last week his bell-ringing speech, with its realistic mixture of self-interest and global thinking, won applause in the hardened Senate, and praise from men who had stood on both sides of the old debate. Speechmaker and applause were one more proof that the old cartoon figure labeled "Isolationist," which some pundits are still busy beating to death, had long since died of natural causes...
...biceps are nearly as firm as in his favorite photograph. A few years ago, in the midst of the interventionist-isolationist debate, he knocked down a husky 40-year-old who cursed him on a Manhattan street...
...monitors picked up Tokyo's interpretation of U.S. zoot-suit riots: "The zoot-suiters are isolationist fighters. They are strong, courageous young men who have banded together in a nationwide army to express by physical force their disapproval of the war. They are intent on spilling their blood in their own country for their own sacred ideals...
From then on, hatred for the President drove Lewis steadily Right. More important, he grew steadily more isolationist. He opposed the Roosevelt foreign policy. He played ball with the Communists who were then sabotaging the defense effort. He drove back into the Republican party. In 1942, mad with rage at his lifelong friend, Phil Murray, and intent on being the big boss wherever he was, he marched the miners out of C.I.O. entirely...