Word: isolationist
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...vexed at some of the letters that you publish every week which refer to World War II and the United States' part in it. For they would imply that the United States, by stopping some of its worldwide commerce, protecting its own boundaries, and, becoming, in a word, isolationist, can preserve Democracy. Bunk! Who wants "preserved" Democracy? The United States cannot become a museum for Democracy...
...ready to assassinate us," suggested that U.S. aviators be permitted to fight with the Chinese Army. ". . . At the controls of some first-class American bombing planes, 50 of them . . . can make a shambles out of Tokyo." Even sympathetic colleagues were abashed at his belligerency. Unsympathetic colleagues saw red. (Isolationist Senator Tobey, picking up a story written by Scripps-Howard Staff Writer Thomas L. Stokes, suggested that Senator Pepper had used his office to get part of a defense contract for a Florida asphalt company, thereby precipitating such a rancorous side battle that the Senate finally expunged the debate from...
...biggest U.S. papers, Chicago's Tribune and New York's Daily News, still led the isolationist press and News Cartoonist Batchelor pulled out a more macabre anti-war cartoon than usual (see cut). But the great majority of cartoonists pictured Uncle Sam or Average Citizen reproving isolationists and defeatists...
...outside of the widely scattered minority of isolationist papers nearly all the press had reached unity-in a demand for decisive action...
...Typical isolationist editorials...