Word: isolationist
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...froth-mouthed isolationist, before Dec. 7 Hearst published yapping anti-British editorials which sometimes outdid the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News. Afterward, for a time, the anti-British editorials disappeared. But not for long. Presently Hearst's 4,110,270 daily readers were informed that Churchill remains in power "notwithstanding his incompetence because he has succeeded in dragging the United States into England's European entanglements. . . ." The British were denounced for enslaving India. But, as if taking it all back, the Hearst-papers ran a cartoon depicting Churchill's speech as the tourniquet...
...that time," he said, "an undergraduate felt ashamed if he were not connected in some way with the R. O. T. C." In this war, on the other hand, he remarked that it was only the events that followed the defeat of France that shook many students from an isolationist mood...
Returning to the attitude of students today, Rand stated that "the unification of this country has not yet been perfected." Many of the isolationist sentiments of young people, he remarked, must be attributed to the postwar historians, who were unable to fix the guilt for the last war and so spread the conviction that this was a purely imperialist struggle. "Things would have been different if we had joined the League," he concluded...
...felt that, since five of its other commissions are directly connected with the war effort, the conference's concern should be with plans for peace. One war statement -"the Christian Church as such is not at war" -was proposed by Editor Charles Clayton Morrison, of the influential and isolationist-before-Pearl-Harbor Christian Century. This statement was actually inserted in a subcommittee report by a 64-58 vote after a sharp debate. In the plenary session, however, it was ruled out of order...
Lewis E. Lawes, Sing Sing's famed ex-warden, was mentioned as a possible successor in Congress to Isolationist Hamilton Fish. Congressman Joseph Clark Baldwin, coming out of the White House, suggested it would be a good idea...