Word: isolationist
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...offer a Senate resolution tomorrow, calling for American sponsorship of a United Nations' conference on peace planning. But peace planning was not yet merely a matter of marmalade-and-muffins conferences or polite conversations, beyond military victory, there lay still the task of crushing the ugly, bloated toad of isolationist imperialism...
Walter Winchell, Broadway's No. 1 needler, had broadcast a blast ("damn fools") at last fall's voters who had voted for isolationist Congressmen (TIME, Feb. 22). Outraged Congressmen talked of an investigation of Winchell's Navy service. To stop the bad publicity for the Navy, Frank Knox this week announced that the Navy's best-known lieutenant commander had been put on inactive duty. Michigan's bitter Congressman Clare Hoffman, who had often been Winchellacked, chortled: "No longer will Navy men wince at the spectacle of a Broadway gossiper sporting a lieutenant commander...
...first school thinks Joseph Stalin may be playing a sly, lone, isolationist hand. It points out parallels, such as Kutuzov's reply to the British observer Wilson when the latter urged the Russian to destroy Napoleon instead of merely pursuing him. "Kutuzov told him plainly," says Eugene Tarle (Napoleon's Invasion of Russia), "that his aim was to eject Napoleon from Russia and that he did not see why Russia should waste her forces on the complete destruction of Napoleon, since the harvest of such a victory would be reaped by England, not Russia...
Next day, everybody was talking at once. Parts of the old Isolationist press were delighted. Said Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson's Washington Times Herald, on page 1: "Clare Boothe Luce, long considered one of our most ardent internationalists, yesterday came home to roost." Delighted also was the stoutly international, Anglophile New York Herald Tribune, which saw in the speech no Isolationist overtones...
...these dangers are less than those that would result from a post-war isolationist reaction. This possibility cannot be permitted. The Wadsworth Bill should be passed as necessary insurance against any effort to retreat again from the responsibility of maintaining collective security. But with its passage must come the sober realization that its misrepresentation after the war could result in a completely undesirable over-emphasis of our armed forces, and those objectives which are accomplished through the use of armed force. Congress is playing with fire, and it must not be allowed to burn out of bounds...