Word: isolationist
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...would like to ask the gentleman from New York whether he would favor sending an A.E.F.?" slyly asked isolationist South Dakota Republican Karl Mundt...
...Army found out last week that it could not do its housecleaning without raising political dust. Congressional pals of officers whom the Army swept out began to raise dust aplenty. Dustiest squawk came from Missouri's Senators: rabid Isolationist Bennett Clark and obedient New Dealer Harry Truman. The Senators were aroused because Truman's cousin, 61-year-old Major General Ralph E. Truman, credited with saving the 35th Division from a rout at the Argonne Forest in World War I, had been relieved of his field command by Lieut. General Ben Lear, assigned to head the reclassification board...
...bespeak the Church's mind more directly and potently than any other religious press. Since the Spanish Civil War, when it was credited with putting across the Church's campaign to keep the embargo against arms to the Republic, the Catholic press in general has been strongly isolationist...
...Brooklyn-Royal Oak Axis"). They point also to the pro-Roosevelt cast of such leading diocesan papers as the Chicago New World, the San Francisco Monitor, the Pittsburgh Catholic. But the influential Catholic newspaper-the Brooklyn Tablet-and the two most influential magazines-America, the Catholic World -are still isolationist. Commonweal (most widely read by non-Catholics) supported aid-to-Britain until the Nazi invasion of Russia, not long afterwards denounced the Fight for Freedom committee's appeal for Catholic support...
...influence on teachers and clergymen, the Jesuit weekly America, edited by 52-year-old Francis Xavier Talbot, S.J. opposed the war and everything connected with it, including the draft. The Catholic World, a Paulist monthly edited by 64-year-old America-Firster Father James M. Gillis, is much more isolationist than America, though like almost every other isolationist Catholic publication it makes a distinction between national defense and intervention in World...