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Your paragraphs about the "psychological front" of the U.S. Army [TIME, July 28] are interesting, in that the writer fears that the reported 50-50 isolationist-interventionist conversational standoff is important. It isn't. Americans will do their duty by the U.S. Government whether that Government seems to them as individuals to be mistaken or not. As one of the few generally educated peoples of the world, we do not have to be indoctrinated with interventionism to do a good job for America. I happen to be an isolationist of the "hemispheric defense" school of thought, but that does...
...Welles had little time to look toward such far horizons last week. He was busy. He denounced the Vichy Government for giving up territory unctuously to the Japanese but defending it bloodily against the British. He repudiated a suggestion by provincial-minded Isolationist Senator D. Worth Clark of Idaho that the U.S. should seize by military aggression all nations in this Hemisphere (see p. 24). He helped the President tighten the screws on the Japanese by banning oil shipments to Japan. He accepted from the Japanese apologies and the offer of indemnity for the apparently accidental bombing...
...Jimmy Byrnes to the Supreme Court, the Senate's Democratic Steering Committee did a neat shuffle, came up with one of the strongest Administration teams the Senate has seen in years. Main purpose of the shuffle was to keep the Finance Committee chairmanship from falling into the isolationist hands of Massachusetts' David Ignatius Walsh, Naval Affairs' chairmanship into the anti-New Deal hands of Maryland's Millard Tydings, keep Administration...
...Senate (see col. 1). To head Foreign Relations, an oldtime, all-out follower of the President's foreign policy stepped in: wavy-haired, black-hatted Senator Tom Connally of Texas. Jimmy Byrnes's Audit & Control post went to a 50% New Dealer, Scott W. Lucas of Illinois. Isolationist Walsh and anti-New Dealer Tydings stayed where they were...
...often does a mass meeting attack a newspaper but last week such a mass meeting was held in Chicago. The enemy it rallied against was Chicago's dominant morning newspaper, the all-powerful Tribune and its autocratic, arch-isolationist publisher, Colonel Robert McCormick...