Word: isolationist
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...Murray was boss of the convention, boss of C.I.O. He and his aides pushed through one resolution after another supporting President Roosevelt's foreign policy. John Lewis' isolationist stand was thoroughly repudiated...
Traditional American optimism and traditional American isolationist sentiment have both gone to pot. The American people are gloomy about their post-war future -but they want the U.S. to take larger part in world affairs after the war is over...
...Rosten's poll of Washington correspondents ranked the Tribune next to the Hearst press as "least fair and reliable" of all U.S. newspapers. That poll reflected the Tribune's savage anti-Roosevelt angling of news. Meantime its isolationist -propaganda -as-news-unsurpassed for furious bias since frontier journalism -has probably qualified the Tribune for first rank in any like poll in 1941. Alone among U.S. newspapers since 1933, the Tribune has got its papers burned in public bonfires, its offices rotten-egged. Also unique is the range of hatred for the Tribune: it cuts across all class lines...
...then explain the Tribune's success? -its gain of 264,000 circulation in the last five years?-its undeniable influence on isolationist sentiment in the five Midwest States which it calls "Chicagoland?" The late, great Charles Dana prescribed one sure-fire recipe for circulation: get your paper talked about. Of that art Colonel McCormick, with his blatant methods, is a past master. The Tribune's subtitle ("The World's Greatest Newspaper") is an outstanding example...
More interesting are the Colonel's new efforts to prove that his isolationist heart is in the right place. He enlisted noisily in the "Smokes for Yanks" campaign, thereby inspiring Col. Frank Knox's Daily News to its best cartoon of the year. Few days later the Colonel sought to undercut a more serious criticism. In a long letter to the London Daily Sketch's Lord Kemsley "on America's place in world affairs" McCormick wrote: "If it were necessary, and I write this after mature consideration, I believe that many Americans would volunteer...