Word: isolationist
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...party aggrandizement rather than of national welfare. Minnesotan Floor Leader Knutson characterizes the trade pacts as "a succession of dismal failures." Going off on a different tack, he implies that the fundamental question is one involving the power ratio of Congress in relation to foreign policy. Vestiges of isolationist complacency are refurbished by H. Fish's statement that "the reciprocal trade agreements have no more to do with peace than cheese has to do with chalk." The political heirs of 1920 still exist; "Cheese" Fish is living evidence...
...much of the picture may seem talky. But no one will be bored by the climax. Ambassador Davies returns from the U.S.S.R., makes a series of shouting stump speeches that should bring on an immediate Dies Committee investigation of Warner Bros. For Mr. Davies (in the film) rips into isolationist Congressmen...
Governor John "Doubleyou" Bricker, the Sage of the Midwest, has come out with a statement that is a masterpiece of political sophistry. "America is not, has never been and will never be an isolationist nation." Bricker, whose bid for the G.O.P. Presidential nomination has the cager support of that old internationalist, Senator Robert A. Taft, thus neatly evaded committing himself on the question of isolationism by refusing to recognize its existence. An observer unblinded by the necessities of political conciliation might perceive that isolationism was, is now, and will be a matter of burning moment for a great sector...
...Take the "Montana Mohammed," Senator Wheeler, for instance. The honorable Mr. Wheeler, who has been so tragically wrong so often, is still a member of that branch of our government charged with the ratification of treaties. And the Senator is still talking. He readily admits that he was an isolationist; in fact, he seems to be proud of the fact. Reluctantly, he admits the Japs attacked us, but, perhaps, if that man Roosevelt hadn't talked so much and made the Japs afraid of us--well, you never can tell. Senator Wheeler also doesn't like the way this...
Tall, dour, diffident Publisher Robert Rutherford ("Bertie") McCormick and his arch -isolationist, Roosevelt-hating Chicago Tribune have been, in the year and a half the U.S. has been at war, active obstructionists. They have sniped and ranted ceaselessly at the President and every phase of the war effort, have publicly doubted the necessity of rationing, have insisted that the U.S. is giving up strawberry jam to assure jam for British breakfasts, that OPA is spying on merchants, that England wants empire-as-usual, that the European war is not our first concern...