Word: isolationist
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What Thomas will say Sunday is a matter of conjecture, since he was a noted isolationist prior to the Japanese attack, and has made no public statement since the declaration...
...advertisement of the Harvard Committee against Military Intervention is a final and valuable exhibit of isolationist logic...
This is the logical climax of all those earlier isolationist judgments that began with Senator Borah's dictum: "This is a phoney...
...Committee's arguments call for an answer. The obvious conclusion from the events of the past few days seems to be that this is a global war, and one from which no nation can afford to remain aloof, The Committee, however, has taken it as an occasion for an isolationist harangue. It would seem clear from news dispatches that victory will only be possible through full cooperation among all the nations opposing Hitler. The Committee, nevertheless, declares we must fight alone. British forces in Singapore and Hong-Kong, and British war-vessels in the Pacific are fighting alongside us, while...
...McCormick, the isolationist scream-bomb, this was a remarkable concession. If the U.S. were to enter the war he might well make much bigger concessions in the name of patriotism-as he and his cousin Joe Patterson (now publisher of the even more successful New York Daily News) did in World War I. If the Colonel again begins whipping up fighting spirit as hotly as he now does isolation, his shift will doubtless cut some interventionist ground from under Marshall Field's Chicago Sun. But the real question of how much strength the Colonel can muster for the battle...