Word: isolationist
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...most articulate isolationist group in the U.S. last week faced a crisis. The America First Committee had touched the pitch of antiSemitism, and its fingers were tarred. It had failed in its specific purpose of halting U.S. progress toward a shooting war. It could show its adherents nothing but the record of a campaign, fought bitterly, spectacularly and with plenty of money, but without success...
...tragic, thought the General, that the Administration did not agree with this view. But he was sure that most of his fellow countrymen, certainly most realistic hardheaded businessmen in isolationist Chicago, did agree. The General thought something ought to be done about...
...heavily pro-isolationist investigating committee is, however, fast becoming the Boris Karloff rather then the Harpo Marx of the show in question. The investigation has rumbled along on an anti-British, anti-Semitic, anti-foreign-born campaign, stopping along the way to take a few digs at both the President and Mr. Willkie. The thoroughness with which the committee sought to avoid the truth was typified by Senator Nye's admission that most of the members of the committee had seen none of the movies that they alleged were pushing the United States to the brink...
...vast discomfort of the Chicago Tribune, which had often hailed him as a hero, Representative Everett McKinley Dirksen a Republican from Pekin, Ill., longtime, profound Roosevelt-hating Isolationist, solemnly proclaimed on the floor the House his future support of the President's policy. He added, amid silence and Republican consternation: "To disavow or oppose that policy now could only weaken the President's position, impair prestige and imperil the nation...
...Coast ships tied up in New York harbor. Bad as it was, the strike could have been worse. Great majority of East Coast vessels are manned not by A.F. of L. seamen but sailors of pinko Joseph Curran's C.I.O. maritime union. Mr. Curran, who ceased being an isolationist when holy Russia was invaded by Germany, is now an advocate of all-out aid. Last week he kept his 40,000 East Coast seamen, who would also like bigger bonuses, at work...