Word: isolationist
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Wild decried isolationist policy and pointed out that it was largely responsible for the present emergency because it had "encouraged others to take advantage of our unwillingness to assume any responsibility...
Norman Thomas, four times defeated on the Socialist presidential ticket, will defend his isolationist stand against W. Barton Leach '21, professor of Law, in a debate in New Lecture Hall, next Monday AT 8 O'clock...
...Isolationist Chief Burton K. Wheeler of Montana harked joyfully back to a Bailey speech of October 10, 1939, when the North Carolinian had said: "We are not going to get into this war. It is a European war. It is not our war. . . . If we were to get into it I should think we were the greatest pack of fools history has ever recorded...
...Ominous." Quickest reaction came in the incensed comments of Senator Wheeler, whose isolationist ammunition had lately been running low. ("The President not only desires to muzzle Senators who oppose him but he wants to muzzle the press and keep facts away from the people. . . .") A few White House correspondents thought they detected portents in the President's talk regarding the shape of news to come. Warned the New York Sun: ". . . an ominous climax to a long series of events that have led definitely in the direction of Governmental control of the press." Some reporters were puzzled, reacting as though...
...Isolationist's wife and author of "The Wave of the Future...