Word: isolationist
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...before yesterday the Republican Party publicly repudiated its former isolationist stand. Ever since Pearl Harbor, responsible Republicans, in Congress and out, have cooperated unstintingly in efforts to help the Administration prosecute the war. For many, who had been stumping the isolationist cause, the about face must have been difficult. But with few exceptions, the former stay-at-homers ungrudgingly pitched into the fight of which, for years, the Administration had been warning them...
...voters knew they were getting no statesman. Senator Brooks was one of the bitterest of pre-Pearl Harbor isolationists, a loud, rabble-rousing opponent of Lend-Lease, of draft extension, of revision of the Neutrality Act. Brooks, a veteran of three defeats for other offices which his sponsor, the Chicago Tribune, had sought for him, had squeaked through to victory in 1940 while the electorate's eyes were focused on the more important Roosevelt-Willkie campaign. In 17½ months in the Senate his only achievement had been membership on the hapless isolationist committee which had tried to smear...
...people scratched their heads. What, indeed, was a good name for the war? Asked for his suggestion, onetime Isolationist Senator Burton K. Wheeler declared: "There is far too much pending now to permit anyone to stop and ponder anything like the name for this war. Moreover it is far better to wait until it is over. Then it can be more appropriately named." Snapped Senator Robert Taft: "I am no zipper...
...Robert Noble, onetime promoter of a California pension plan ("$25 every Monday morning"), and Ellis O. Jones, chief of the isolationist National Copperheads, were picked up for sedition last December, soon freed. Francis Biddle said then: "Free speech as such ought not to be restricted." Last week the State of California accused Jones and Noble of criminal libel. In a Friends of Progress publication they had written that General Douglas MacArthur, when he moved from Bataan to Australia, "just ran out in the dead of night. ..." Führer Noble fumed in Los Angeles County jail: "I was amazed...
Colonel Kernan's title was announced to a public eager to hear that the United States should and must attack if it wants to defeat Nazi Germany. The idea is eminently sound, but it is not new. Every isolationist in the country before December 7 loudly pointed out that Hitler could not be defeated until American boys marched down Unter den Linden, and since that time cartoonists and editorial writers in every major paper in the country with the exception of the Chicago Tribune have pounded on the theme of attack...