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California's white-haired Hiram Johnson rose to defend his isolationist colleague: "Every man in this chamber should be proud of you, as I am proud of you today. ... A man is charged with treason. For what? For saying that men in army camps have the right to petition their President. For God's sake, have we reached the point in government where there is no right of ... free speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: If This Be Treason | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

...part of Britain primarily; should, if necessary, do business with the Nazis; and should pay enormous attention to economic relations with Russia. He has no faith in Roosevelt, in Roosevelt's foreign policy, in Roosevelt's economic policies, and his opposition to them makes him an isolationist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Mind of Mr. Lewis | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

Said FORTUNE: "The U.S. may . . . be willing to fight. But for peace-not for a peace. And so the most interventionist findings the Survey has yet published prove also to be tenaciously isolationist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLLS: Ready For It | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

Last February, in St. Petersburg, Fla., died Apostle Reed Smoot, still isolationist, still bitter at Cordell Hull's reciprocal trade agreements, which partially nullified the still-existing Smoot-Hawley Act. And last week, in Salem, Ore., death came to Willis Hawley, 77, the Oregon axman who had helped chop down the economic foundations of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Death of a Woodcutter | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

This little book includes practically every important literary allusion that has ever been made to human freedom. These quotations, says Co-Editor Josiah Wedgwood (who last week was shushed by the British and sent home to Britain because he said unkind things about Isolationist Senator Wheeler), "furnish both sides of the Atlantic with Masonic passwords: quotations that will always be recognized by the elect." Among the great quotations the elect may recognize: II Corinthians iii, 17; John viii, 32; Psalm 140; the Golden Rule; Patrick Henry on liberty; the Declaration of Independence; Rule, Britannia; Byron's Sonnet on Chilian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Variety of Freedoms | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

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