Word: isolationist
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Almost from the first shot the Yard was split into two opposite groups which can easily be classed into the rough distinctions of "isolationist" and "interventionist". Each side has formed a succession of student and Faculty committees, the number of which has grown so large that it is doubtful if any one person can remember them...
When the war broke out in September of 1939 the "isolationists" were far and away the more numerous of the two groups. The CRIMSON, which with the "Progressive," the Student Union magazine, has been a spokesman for the isolationist camp since the beginning, urged all aid to the Allies short of war as a means of keeping American soldiers on this side of the ocean. For if England and France should begin to loss the CRIMSON declared, pressure on this country to enter the war would become too great to resist...
However, the speed with which members were found is significant of the strength of isolationist sentiment in Cambridge at that time. For the last year no one organization could hope to get more than 100 members even without a $.10 tax because opinions have split into so many varied channels...
...last for the rest of the year was apparent. Under the distinguished leadership of President Conant, the majority of the Faculty came out vehemently first for the repeal of the arms embargo and then for all aid to the Allies. The majority of the student groups remained in the isolationist camp and only a few sided openly with their teachers...
...Their recorded collection Songs for John Doe, ably hewed to the then Moscow line, neatly phonograph-needled J. P. Morgan, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and particularly war (TIME, June 16). The three discs of Talking Union, on sale last week under the Keynote label, lay off the isolationist business now that the Russians are laying it on the Germans...