Word: isolationist
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...patience of tall, cool Sumner Welles suddenly ran out. For months the State Department had politely nudged the governments of Argentina and Chile, reminding them of hemispheric unity. But Argentina, under isolationist President Ramón S. Castillo, stayed stubbornly unregenerate. And Chile, under veteran politico President Juan Antonio Rios, kept coy. They, alone of all the Americas, refused to break relations with the Axis...
...year-old President Grant has long been ill, most Mormons decided that this revelation came from the man who read it to the conference-First Counselor J. Reuben Clark Jr., onetime Hoover Ambassador to Mexico and a last-ditch isolationist before Pearl Harbor. Next day this impression was strengthened when disagreement in the First Presidency itself became evident. Said Second Counselor David 0. McKay in a national broadcast: "The conflict must continue. ... We cannot have peace until the mad gangsters ... are defeated and branded as murderers, their false aims repudiated, and this war against wickedness ended...
This move is more insidious than Mr. Lewis' pre-Pearl Harbor decision to become an anti-New Deal isolationist. It is more harmful than his too-recent attempt to throw a strike wrench into WLB's Little Steel decision. This is the last desperate attempt of an embittered man to regain his former power, even at the cost of shattering Labor's delicately constructed moves toward cooperation, inside and outside of the ranks...
...historical perspective. Unlike propaganda films of the past, belligerent peoples can now see their own leaders made the inadequate statesmen that history will inevitably make them. They can also see the mistakes of the last ten years in a manner so clear and startling that even the most isolationist of the movie public will be forced to stop, watch and reconsider...
...Thomas accomplishes the feat of writing a fantasy in a realistic style. A too conscious attempt at atmosphere occasionally swamps Albert Friedman's "Carnival," while David Hessey's "Launching" sacrifices a powerful theme to occasionally slip-shod treatment. Cecil Schneer makes a heroic attempt to get inside a converted isolationist by reducing him through pain to his Freudian common denominator...