Word: isolationist
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...great many listeners, in the audience, there seemed something fishy in this kind of talk. Many a convinced interventionist, listening to the deflated language of General Wood, dismissed his appeal as an attempt to put the President on the spot. Many an isolationist, listening to the President's lofty statement, felt that the big words were inflated, covering some other purpose...
...declared in effect that the U.S. is at war with Germany. But he did not accept the other half of the General's challenge-that he ask Congress to declare that a state of war exists. There was no sign that General Wood expected him to. No isolationist could believe that "every schoolchild knows what our foreign policy is." But at last it seemed that President Roosevelt was beginning to state it in terms that even schoolchildren could grasp...
...Honorable U Saw was well worth a slick buttering up which he received in the columns of the London Times, but he was unable to raise more than a tepid temperature for Britain's struggle. The Burmese are isolationists. Some Londoners, however, thought that Premier U Saw felt less isolationist after he had seen the husks of some of London's buildings. His own capital, spire-templed Rangoon, is only 700 miles from a Japanese plane base at Pnom-Penh, Indo-China...
Toughs from the slums getting ready to fight the collegeboys; middlewesterners talking about secession from "that British colony in the East"; Lindbergh haranguing the crowds about "new leadership"; everywhere the lines are being drawn more sharply, and the gap between isolationist and interventionist is steadily and alarmingly widening. Max Lerner, who is usually pretty well up on those things, has estimated that 25 per cent of the people are rabid interventionists, 25 per cent are steadfast isolationists, and 50 per cent are in the middle, but following the main trends of the Roosevelt foreign policy...
...poll of isolationist sentiment among practicing Catholics has yet been made. That it would run as high as Catholic clergymen's response to their poll is unlikely. Lay Catholics include a strong group of Roosevelt supporters; they also read the secular press, which last week was 69% interventionist. Remembered last week was the discrepancy between the Catholic press and Catholics in the Spanish Civil War. After two years of nearly total pro-Franco sentiment in the Catholic press, a Gallup poll showed that one-third of U.S. Catholics were neutral, 43% were pro-Loyalist, less than 25% pro-Franco...