Word: isolationist
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...pass-with perhaps slight modification-by overwhelming majorities, in from three to six weeks. The only way to defeat a bill the President really wants has been a coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats. Now the Southern Democrats are interventionist almost to a man and Republicans are hopelessly split. Isolationist Senators Wheeler, Taft, Nye and Clark might filibuster; House isolationists might balk-but two men held all the cards this week: 1) prognathous, gnomish Representative Sol Bloom of New York, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; 2) austere, pompous Senator Walter George of Georgia, his opposite number...
...year 1935 I published a book, "Road to War," which described in severely critical terms the whole process whereby the United States went down into the first World War. I have since seen this book more than once referred to as "the isolationists' bible." I don't know how many times I have heard the isolationist spokesmen exclaiming, as Senator Wheeler did the other day, that present administration policies are simply "running down the road to war." I don't know how many times in the past year or so I have been asked how, as the author of "Road...
...Back from a Hawaii holiday, ready "for the big fight" in Congress, Isolationist Burton K. Wheeler, who thinks Britain can't win but is willing to give her everything she can pay for, said: "If it's our war, we ought to have the courage to go over and fight...
...years ago by Socialist secessionists from A. S. U. It convened in Madison, Wis., got a cool welcome. Barred from the University of Wisconsin (of which conscription's Director Clarence Dykstra is president) and the First Congregational Church, the convention eventually met in a hotel, heard an isolationist speech by Senator Burton K. Wheeler, demanded repeal of conscription...
...isolationist side will be upheld by Tudor Gardiner, Class Orator of 1940, and Robert A. Taft, Jr. 2L, while the interventionist point of view will be expounded by Richard M. Weissman 1L, and William P. Bundy 1L, former President of the Yale Debating Council...