Word: isolationist
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Should the U. S. indeed turn its back on Britain, such demonstrators, effigy hangers and isolationist Senators will no doubt receive their just meed of credit. But far more fateful than the influence of any of these will be another circumstance -the isolationist reunion of Cousins Bertie McCormick and Joe Patterson...
...fond cousinly gesture the borrowing of John T. McCutcheon's cartoon was significant. Actually Cousin Joe had little need for borrowed isolationist cartooning. The Daily News's own Pulitzer Prizewinning, Kansas-born Cartoonist Clarence Daniel Batchelor had already created the most potent anti-war cartoon of all-the two creepy, skeleton-faced, voluptuous harlots labeled World War II ("Uncle Sap's New Girl Friend") and her fuller-blown mother, World War I (see cuts). Of late these ghoulish temptresses have appeared on Publisher Patterson's editorial page with almost comic-strip frequency-graphically timed to make...
...Liga do Defensa", a Chilean organ, voices strong isolationist-nationalist polices, and while fearing territorial encroachment in any form, it attacks the Nazis as being the greatest menace...
Attendance was only soso during the House debate, and slender to sparse at the Senate hearings, except when Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh appeared, to reiterate his House testimony of Jan. 23. The other headliners did poorly-General Robert E. Wood, isolationist mail-order tycoon ; isolationist ex-Governor Phil La Follette of Wisconsin; belligerent Isolationist Robert R. McCormick, Chicago Tribune publisher. There were 22 others, from Historian Charles A. Beard to Kansan Alf M. Landon, from Military Expert George Fielding Eliot to Chamber of Commerce President James S. Kemper...
...such men as Dr. Morrison a Catholic priest spoke in a national broadcast at week's end. Rev. Maurice S. Sheehy, head of The Catholic University of America's Religious Education Department, in heartfelt tones condemned isolationist "fence-sitters" who refuse to face the destructive threat of Naziism and Fascism to Christian civilization...