Word: isolationist
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...many an isolationist Republican Congressman, Willkie is still as profane a word as Roosevelt. Yet, with primaries only a few months away, it was time for politicians to listen to the voice of the people back home-and last week there was little comfort in that voice for diehards...
...Last week the Kansas City Star's able Washington Correspondent T. C. Alford concluded an opinion-sampling swing through Missouri and Kansas. His report: "In . . . the center of the Midwest isolationist belt, people no longer talk about the chances of keeping the United States out of the war but . . . discuss with vigor whether or not this country should enter the war now and get the job over as quickly as possible...
...survey made for the interventionist Continental Congress for Freedom held in Washington last month, 59 Nebraska editors and publishers reported that their communities were now overwhelmingly in favor of the Administration's foreign policy, substantially in favor of Neutrality Act repeal. Said one editor: "The so-called 'Isolationist Midwest' exists only in the minds of Congressmen who have failed to keep abreast of a great surge of public opinion during recent months...
...licensed by the New Deal's FCC, might possibly be surmised to favor interventionist over isolationist organizations in allotting radio time generally. But NBC dug into the record at the request of FCC's Chairman James Lawrence Fly. It showed that on both NBC networks, from Jan. 1 through Oct. 31, 1) interventionists had 68 programs, 77 speakers, 25 hours, 14 minutes; isolationists, 72 programs, 76 speakers, 25 hours, 2 minutes; 2) the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies and the Fight for Freedom Committee together had 14 programs; America First had 14; 3) the average...
...always risen after a speech by President Roosevelt. Not so last week. The President spoke ("The shooting has started") and the destroyer Reuben James was also sunk. Interventionist sentiment in the press just held even at 64%. The 20% drop in interventionist sentiment was accompanied by a rise in isolationist sentiment from...