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These words had hardly left the President's lips when U.S. churchmen started ramming them down his throat (see p. 46). Wrote Charles Clayton Morrison, Editor of the rabidly isolationist Christian Century...
White Knight. Isolationist Congressmen, after Lend-Lease went through over their protests, stormed out of the Capital to tour the country for the isolationist cause. Chief among them were Senator Burton K. Wheeler, who hates the President, dreams of riding into the White House on the crest of a post-war isolationist wave; Senator Gerald P. Nye, one of the most detested and distrusted men in the Senate; Representative Hamilton Fish, demagogic, erratic, unstable, who also dreams of being President some...
...Three Furies of the isolationist press increased their howls. In Chicago, Robert ("Bertie") McCormick's Tribune bombarded the Midwest with isolationist propaganda, screamed: "The 80 per cent of our people who are Americans undefiled by foreign seductions must bring their influence to bear on Congress and the Executive." Cousins Joe Patterson (New York Daily News) and Eleanor Patterson (Washington Times-Herald) ground out their daily gripes at the risks involved in the Administration's policy of trying to stop Hitler...
Alicia Patterson Simpson Brooks Guggenheim, thrice-married favorite daughter of Captain Joe Patterson, last week all but called her father a liar. In her year-old tabloid, the Hempstead (L.I.) Newsday, pretty, 34-year-old Alicia wrote an editorial, THAT 80 PER CENT, about isolationist claims that "80% of the American people are against our going into the war." It began: "You remember the old gag: 'Figures don't lie-but liars sometimes figure.' " The 80% claim has been pushed particularly by the Chicago Tribune, published by her cousin Colonel Robert McCormick, and the New York Daily...
...this was just a sign that Daughter Alicia is a member in good standing of the Patterson-McCormick family, a clan of determined individualists. From her paper it has long been plain that she is no isolationist, but as she says: "Father and I are still very great friends." They do not attempt to reconcile their editorial difference. ("We just don't talk about it.") Meantime she goes on reviewing books for her father's Sunday News. ("It gives me a chance to get a lot of reading done that I wouldn't do otherwise...