Word: isolationist
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...Louis convention was to be the setting for the revitalization of the Old Guard, and Taft and his mates carefully molded antagonism for Willkie with recent election gains to force the selection of a middle-of-the-road isolationist, Harrison Spangler, as national chairman. And in the same week, Taft busily announced support of John Bricker, another "balance the budget" bulwark for the 1944 nomination...
Midwest politicos believe John Bricker can consolidate the center and extreme right factions of the G.O.P. Always careful, ready to take no definite stand except on economy, he cannot be tagged as isolationist, or Old Guard. As Governor he has not been forced to take a positive position on national or international affairs. In his first year as Governor (1939) he turned a $40,000,000 deficit into a $3,000,000 surplus by airtight squeezing of the State treasury, and at the expense of cities, school districts, public relief. When a relief crisis developed late that year, many...
...what they stand for now and in the future that matters. ... I think we shall find that the division, though hinging upon our future foreign policy ... is the progressives against the reactionaries all over again. ... If you are a reactionary at home, you are most likely to be an isolationist abroad. ... If you distrust the plain people in this country, you will certainly distrust them in Russia. High-tariff protectionism, hatred of social reforms, appeasement, isolationism, advocacy of a strictly military war and fear of a people's peace all go together in one package...
...into American life "the attitude of the second-generation American"-"a combination of contempt and avoidance" for European things and people. So strong was this attitude, says Miss Mead, that it often became the dominant national spirit "in those parts of the country which we speak of as 'isolationist...
Thundered the New York Herald Tribune: "By any standards of common sense the suggestion that Werner Schroeder should succeed Joseph W. Martin . . . would be too preposterous to deserve comment. But the sort of isolationist stupidity which is central over Chicago could not exist if it were not itself isolated from reason. . . . [Schroeder] was still making isolationist speeches just before last week's election. Such a stand . . . makes the suggestion of his name an insult to sound Republicanism. ... If the party wished to commit suicide it could hardly do a quicker or more effective job than by placing a Schroeder...