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...like TIME. I wish that TIME would refrain from using the term "isolationist." No one in the U. S. is one. We all realize that the world is constantly growing smaller...
...term "continentalist" is much preferred. The term "isolationist"'has been falsely branded upon farsighted individuals who strongly disbelieve that our entrance in the European struggle is essential to our future well being...
Even the isolationist Chicago Tribune hailed the frank, dignified tone of the speech. But next day some 20 Manhattan reporters gave the Ambassador a going-over for 50 minutes. What about India? What about Palestine? What about U. S. troops? In long, patient, gnarled sentences the Ambassador labored out a careful reply to each. He did not let it appear that he knew he was being needled...
...blood and treasure out of all proportion to the gain. How could the many Governments in exile be restored to power? How could Hitler be overthrown without a U. S. expeditionary force? Colonel Lindbergh asked: What plan did the U. S. have for making itself effective in Europe? Other isolationist writers put a sharper question: How could supplying Britain with the "tools" do more than prolong the war? How could 2,000,000 British soldiers, even supplied with U. S. arms, "somehow plough their way through the Balkans and conquer 6,000,000 German soldiers...
After last fall's election, most pro-Willkie newspapers bowed more or less gracefully to the majority will. But not Bertie McCormick's bitter-ending Chicago Tribune. When the Lend-Lease Bill passed, most isolationist newspapers again bowed more or less gracefully to the national will. But not the Chicago Tribune...