Word: isolationist
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...Capitol Hill the opposition conferred. Unnoted by the press, General Robert Elkington Wood, kingpin of America First, slipped into town. The bulky General moved boldly into the Capitol itself, into the private office of Montana's Isolationist Senator Burton K. Wheeler, in the Senate's Interstate Commerce Committee room...
...office during a fight on amendments on the Walsh-Healey Act. When Congressmen found out about it, they raised the roof. If anyone has tried it since, he has kept it dark.) First plan had been to hold a big lunch in the House restaurant. But most isolationist Congressmen who were invited preferred a free tour of Fort Belvoir, Va., where the Army planned to let the Congressmen have a field day of fingering guns, swinging on ropes, inspecting the camp, and eating in the regular mess (with tablecloths, however). So the lunch was called...
Wood was told that both Chambers would easily pass an amendment permitting the arming of merchant ships; that an amendment to permit U.S. ships to enter so-called combat zones would be hard-fought; that isolationist mail had slumped since the President's "shoot-on-sight" speech; that Congressional isolationists were climbing on the Administration bandwagon. The strategists decided to revert to the old tactic of stirring up the letter writers of the U.S., to flood the mails and wires with threats and complaints to Congress and the President...
Said Lord Halifax: "I say, what is a World Series?" Reporter Fred Pasley of the isolationist New York Daily News told him, slyly added: "It is something like your cricket-only different...
Apparently convinced-by what, no man knew-collegians last week for the most part were more interventionist than their elders. Most spectacular switch was by students in the arch-isolationist Big Three...