Word: isolationist
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Last week Michigan's isolationist Senator Vandenberg spilt the news of Franklin Roosevelt's secret treaty. By threatening to stir up opposition in tax-hungry States and cities, Senator Vandenberg forced the hand of long Tom Connally, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. From Chairman Connally: a promise that terms of the tax treaty will be made public...
...Washington Columnist Raymond Clapper, a careful reporter with good sources, described the expected manifesto as "directed against the Roosevelt-Churchill Atlantic Charter. . . . [The U.S.] would be described as remote from, and completely alien to, the European problem. Obviously this would be aimed at providing ammunition for non-interventionist and isolationist sentiment...
...wisecracks about Mackenzie King's conduct of the war. He wants overall conscription, abolition of the excess-profits tax. He scoffs at the Prime Minister's "twilight twittering" about joint Canada-U.S. defense planning, grows rabid because Canada does not ban all U.S. periodicals with an isolationist slant. To Arthur Meighen, above all, Cana da is a unit of the British Commonwealth of Nations...
...Clarence Streit's famous book Union Now. A levelheaded zealot, Streit argues for immediate federal union of the U.S., England and the democratic dominions as a means of winning the war and forming the nucleus of a World Government. Significant fact: KCKN, in the heart of the long isolationist Middle West, is owned and operated by Senator Arthur Capper, an anemometrist who has never had to wet his thumb to know how the political wind blows...
...what and how they write and think these two authors are poles apart. Chamberlin's thinking brings him out at an isolationist position which strangely underestimates the crushing military, economic and political power of Naziism. Max Lerner is a left-handed interventionist because he sees Naziism as a dangerous perversion of a world revolutionary process which he calls the "socialization of democracy." World War II, he believes, must be fought until this perversion is cleared away so that the revolution can go on. He is also aware that the war itself is a pretext for stepping up the revolutionary...