Word: isolationist
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...leadership of Royal Whiting '42 joined the fun in Washington without joining the Congress. The League lobbied for HR 1776 with Colonel Knox and Chester Davis, who is the Agricultural Coordinator for the Office of Production Management. An attempt was made to see Ham Fish, but the prominent isolationist refused to meet the delegation...
...isolationist. The countries collapsing like houses of cards over there didn't seem worth even an airplane of ours. But since September I've changed. This England has changed my mind...
Montana's isolationist Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler one day last month threatened a legislative crackdown on cinemen for "carrying on a violent propaganda campaign intending to incite the American people...
...duty of the U. S. : to "show the world a nation clear in purpose, united in action, and sacrificial in spirit. The influence of that example upon suffering humanity everywhere will be more power ful than the combined armies of the Axis." The familiar cries of defeatist, appeaser, isolationist, rose shrilly, just as the cries of warmonger had risen after the testimony of the Cabinet officers the week before. Defenders of the bill-Dorothy Thompson. William Bullitt, Major Gen eral John F. O'Ryan-came in with more arguments, all familiar. Ex-Ambassador Bullitt pointed to one difficulty...
...signed copies to some 5,000 newspapers, magazines, picture agencies, radio stations, etc. He marked it "confidential." Last week Frank Knox's cat was let out of the bag, not by any recipient of his unusual letter, but by the mimeographed publication Uncensored, a Manhattan weekly with an isolationist slant. Uncensored had received no letter from the Navy's Secretary, felt no compunctions of confidence in publishing Secretary Knox's letter...