Word: isolationist
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...Senate had already passed a bill extending service for 18 months; but the Senate had not answered the big question. Isolationist after Isolationist had stood up and shouted that he wanted to be shown: Where was the emergency? Less loudly, less cogently the Administration's leaders had tried to prove that the peril to the U.S. was immense and soon might be immediate. They lost the argument but passed the bill; enough middle-roaders went along with them to shove the measure through, 45-to-30 (ten Senators ducked a vote, were "ill," "out of town" or just-away...
...voters, 23 were confirmed Isolationists who had also voted against the Lend-Lease Bill and against nearly every Roosevelt-sponsored measure relating to foreign policy. Against the Lend-Lease Bill they had argued that the U.S, was quite capable of defending itself alone. Now they argued that going-it-alone did not necessarily include creating a big, well-trained Army, certainly did not include sending arms to Soviet Russia, California's irreconcilable Isolationist, old (74) Senator Hiram Johnson, shouted in a throbbing voice: "I will not subscribe to the doctrine that you must be a Stalinite...
...missed the Presidency by a hair in 1920, was a name to conjure with in days gone by. To go along with him on the statement, 14 other potent signatures of a slightly younger vintage were rounded up. Then Patriarch Lowden, who once was a brave Midwestern anti-isolationist, handed out an isolationist blast saying...
...short, he is a reluctant interventionist who wants to return to an isolationist America after the war; he is the businessman working in Washington who-between lunches at his desk and 14 hours a day of work-dreams of some day being shut of this and going home again. He cannot get it through his head that America may never go home again...
...called to service on the premise that the U.S. needed an Army in a world filled with aggression has now no sense of imminent national danger. (At a Mississippi camp last week uniformed men booed newsreel shots of Franklin Roosevelt and General George Marshall, cheered a thumbnail speech by Isolationist Senator Hiram Johnson...