Word: isolationist
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Even such Isolationist ostriches as Ohio's Senator Robert Taft admitted that there could be no fight against the logic of fully training the half-trained U.S. Army. By now General Marshall had smashed all the way to the one-yard line. The President decided to go in himself, and carry the ball over for the touchdown...
...even as he prepared a message insisting on passage of the legislation, the other team walked off the field, defaulting the game: the little grey Kansas field mouse, Isolationist Alf M. Landon, came out for the bill. Then Franklin Roosevelt went in to make the touchdown...
While Franklin Roosevelt sat planning in the White House, enemies of his foreign policy took advantage of his silence to start a counterattack. They were led by Montana's isolationist Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler. Ever since he was beaten in the Supreme Court fight in 1937 by Burt Wheeler and his forces, the President has obviously been a little afraid of the trouble that Wheeler could stir up. Senator Wheeler last week had plenty of ammunition for his attack, one revelation, one prophecy, one dare, one warning and (with Senator Taft) one report...
...Norrell demanded a Congressional investigation ("He apparently is engaged all the time in playing golf"). Illinois's Everett M. Dirksen said he did not know "whether public funds are to be expended so that grouchy, golfing old generals will develop a lot of sourpuss soldiers." Missouri's isolationist Senator Bennett Champ Clark called Ben Lear "a superannuated old goat, who ought to retire...
Last spring James S. Twohey Associates, analysts of newspaper opinion, calculated that upwards of 65% of the U.S. press plumped for more aid to Britain and attacked isolationists. Last week, presumably upset by the spectacle of Germany fighting Russia, some 20% of the press had not changed sides but gone to sit on the fence. This left only 53% of the press interventionist, against 27% definitely isolationist...