Word: isolationist
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Once, in the old dead days of the isolationist debate, Britain's devout Lord Halifax stopped to chat with an American mother picketing his hotel with an anti-war banner. He listened gravely to her story of her nine sons, said quietly: "I, too, have sons," shook hands, walked...
...Washington Post's grey, sharp managing editor Alexander F. ("Casey") Jones became convinced, that all the pro-isolationist, anti-Semitic propaganda that was then flooding the U.S. was more than mere coincidence. To Reporter Dillard Stokes, who has a nose sharpened by 19 years in U.S. newsrooms, has studied law and authored many a spare-time true detective story, Casey Jones gave a blank-check assignment: investigate and expose subversive activities -"take your time, be sure of your facts," then shoot the works...
...summons to appear before the District of Columbia grand jury. Stokes grabbed a taxi, scooted for Dennett's office, there watched a truck being loaded with mailbags. He followed while some of the bags were delivered to the America First Committee headquarters, others to the offices of isolationist Republican Congressman "Ham" Fish. When he phoned Fish's office and got a flat denial that any of the mailbags were there, Stokes wangled his way into Fish's locker room, found the bags...
...Dennett's office and made a file of persons and organizations corresponding with Dennett. Then he rented a special mailbox, adopted the phony names of "Jefferson Breem" and "Adam Quigley," wrote Jew-baiting letters to all the names in the file. He was flooded with antiSemitic, anti-Roosevelt, isolationist literature, not only from persons to whom he had written, but from others as well. Soon other organizations he had never heard of had him on their mailing lists...
Results of all this sleuthing discovery: that many propaganda agencies in the U.S. were working together, swapping mailing lists; that many an isolationist Congressman's free mailing privilege was being used to disseminate such propaganda, some of which even was inserted into the Congressional Record and then mailed out as Congressional Record "reprints"; that Congressman Fish's secretary, George Hill, later jailed for perjury (TIME. March 2), was serving as handyman for a propaganda ring managed by George Sylvester Viereck and Dennett...