Word: isolationist
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...people of this country say this to the President, "Give us a logical, coherent, consistent and courageous course to follow-be it 'interventionist' or be it 'isolationist' and we'll follow you through hell and high water, but the present vacillating and unreasoning policies and practices engender in us nothing but the 'defeatist' and 'apathetic' attitudes which your followers in Washington publicly deplore. We'll follow-will you lead?" ROBERT LEIGHTON...
Democrats promptly joined with Republicans and Isolationists in ripping his bill to shreds. Missouri's Short wanted to know who would "assume the responsibility for the robbery and the rape and murder that might be committed." New York's Isolationist Ham Fish offered an amendment (defeated) to provide "dugouts, tin helmets, asbestos suits and gas masks for the members of Congress, the Chief Executive, and the Justices of the Supreme Court . . . air-raid sirens on all public buildings except the Department of Labor. ..." Well over a third of the chamber kept out of the discussion and the voting...
Speaking later in Emerson Hall, isolationist Flynn told his audience that the United States was impregnable from both the military and economic advances of Hitler...
When asked whether he expected his isolationist efforts would be successful, Flynn produced telegrams from Senators George, McNavy, and Lodge, pledging their support against convoying ships to England...
...appeasement political factions and most important by an indefinite prolongation of a burdensome, conscripted war economy that the last bastions of democracy will fall without a shot being fired. Through their ignorance of, or inattention to, these questions the authors fail in their last-chapter plea for an isolationist course which is steadily losing ground everywhere...