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Last week undiplomatic Senator William H. Smathers of New Jersey said the delay in passing the Lend-Lease Bill nearly proved that Hitler was right, that "a little band of evil men could gang up to defeat democracy." The chief isolationist, Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, merely chuckled. For his strategic purposes, this irritated attitude was a good sign: consistently through the debate Wheeler and his henchmen have striven to assume the martyr's crown, to be regarded as a tiny group of courageous idealists struggling against hopeless odds. The tactic was working well, because the Administration strategy...
...Then, so successfully did he plug isolation that in no time he was ranked among the top half-dozen chief U. S. "appeasers." Not even the Hearst chain, Robert Rutherford McCormick's Chicago Tribune or Joseph Medill Patterson's New York News outdid Roy Howard's isolationist tour de force: a screaming "exposé" purporting to show that the Army had already ordered 4,500,000 identification tags for America's war corpses to come...
Simultaneously Scripps-Howard news coverage of Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler's isolationist crusade fell into more normal perspective. Senator Wheeler's attack on Wendell Willkie as "the intrepid Trojan horse of the Republican Party"-a likely candidate for the front page a few days earlier-appeared quietly on page 17 of the New York World-Telegram. And word was reputed to have gone down to Publisher Howard's editors to lay off hereafter such features as the identification-tag melodrama...
...this pointed to a major defection in isolationist ranks. There was one further item which old Scripps-Howard readers added to the evidence. No more than an intangible, something in the spirit of Publisher Howard's editorial suggested more spontaneity than any that he had heretofore been able to summon up as an all-out isolationist...
Pitted against the isolationist views of the eloquent Norman Thomas, four times Presidential candidate on the Socialist ticket, will be the opinions of W. Barton Leach '21, professor of Law, who tends toward interventionism...