Word: isolationist
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Tall, loudmouthed Congressman Ham Fish, New York's gift to the isolationist cause, has some explaining to do this week. He must tell the stony, fact-minded Internal Revenue Bureau why he did not include in his 1939 income tax return a cool $25,000 he got from Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, the bemedaled millionaire dictator of the Dominican Republic...
...wife, Dora, and their son, Arod, travel ahead in a sound truck, to act as circus advance men. They all put on a show: Glenn sings hillbilly songs, then starts his spiel. A rank isolationist in 1940, he plumps now for total war. In 1940 he called Franklin Roosevelt a bankers' tool; now Cowboy Glenn has nothing but praise for the President. The Cowboy wants a just peace, a planned post-war America...
Wage Control? In Alaska, to the daily shame of the U.S., sat the Japs. Across the Don in Russia the Nazis fought their way; Rommel was getting up steam again in Egypt; and the formerly isolationist Scripps-Howard newspapers clamored for an all-out air attack on Germany which would thus avert the bloody necessity of the U.S. coming squarely to grips with the enemy. The British were beginning to believe their leaders had deceived them in their promises (or hints) of a second front this year; the desperate Russians had begun to tell their people that everything depended...
...such a demand, from such men, there was yet hope. A leading Wheeler-Isolationist, Colorado's Senator Ed Johnson, strangely got together with a leading Roosevelt-New Dealer, Oklahoma's Josh Lee, to propose a Senate bill to create a new military supply board to direct immediate construction of cargo planes-thus indicating their impatience with a war effort which fails to do the right things fast enough...
...Griffin, violently anti-British publisher of the New York Enquirer; wild-eyed, red-haired Mrs. Elizabeth (Red Network) Billing, Gerald B. Winrod, publisher of the Defender, notorious preacher of racial and religious intolerance; Prescott Freeze Dennett, organizer of the Islands for War Debts Committee, operator of a one-man isolationist news service (an Army draftee, he was arrested in a St. Louis barracks); Nazi Agent George Sylvester Viereck, now in prison for failing to disclose in full his connection with the Nazi Government...