Word: isolationist
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Such an offer would appeal to many kinds of appeaser: in the U.S. to Red-hating appeasers as well as isolationist appeasers, in Britain to Munich-minded appeasers who believe that Britain's destiny is in the Empire. It would not appeal to those who see in Hitlerism a fearsome way of life, nor to those who see no way to do business with Hitler and remain free, nor to those who see that one Munich leads to another...
...guns, the whole setup will be scrapped. Something else will be tried, perhaps the one-man control of defense that patriots like Wendell Willkie have been crying for. In the prospect that all this may have to be done after the U.S. has gone to war, not even an isolationist could find anything to cheer about...
Ordinarily the annual election of officers on the Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette is strictly local news, if that, but this year it was different. Elections last week involved a conspicuous character. He was Verne Marshall, recent Gazette editor and fireball isolationist head of the No Foreign War Committee. The Gazette Co. supplanted him as secretary, which put him clean out of the newspaper...
Editor Marshall dropped out of sight with astonishing completeness when the No Foreign War Committee closed up shop two months ago. So isolated last week was Isolationist Marshall that even his own family made a mystery of his whereabouts. Persistent rumor said he was in a sanatorium somewhere in Wisconsin. But his family-including his five daughters-refused to confirm the rumor. Family friends were more specific. Said one of them: "You know he went off the deep end for a while. But Verne's all right now, and he's sorry for all the things...
Those U.S. businessmen who are still isolationists breathed easier this week. Germany's attack on the U.S.S.R. seemed like a last-minute excuse not to take a cold plunge: a snake was plainly visible in the water. Chortled Isolationist John T. Flynn: "This is where we came in. ... Are we going to fight to make Europe safe for Communism...