Word: isolationist
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...staunch as his six-foot, two hundred pound frame are the isolationist convictions of Representative Ham Fish, who stated in an exclusive interview in Washington last Thursday that he would not be trailing behind in the fight for peace despite the drift of public opinion against him and the bush-bush policy of the Eastern press...
...repeal the Johnson Act, not to convoy supplies to England. Shocked at this lukewarmth, several of his committee members immediately branded his words as a shameful retreat toward isolation. Major General John F. O'Ryan resigned from the committee. In effect, the interventionist committee seemed too isolationist...
...General Robert E. Wood, so-called iso-lationist-appeaser, of the America First Committee, hailed White's statement as sound stuff. So did Charles A. Lindbergh, who to many Americans symbolizes the narrowest isolation, the broadest appeasement. Immediately protests went up; several members resigned, complaining that the isolationist committee was getting too interventionist...
This change of tone suggested that perhaps Franklin Roosevelt had really touched the Axis' quick with his increasing and increasingly pointed measures to strengthen the Axis' great foe. It suggested even more strongly that the Axis had decided to take advantage of existing isolationist sentiment in the U. S. to divide and confuse the biggest "pluto-democracy," in order to slow up aid to Britain at a vital moment...
Firmly for aid to Britain is a majority of the nation's press, but one isolationist organ last week stood in splendid isolation -Scribner's Commentator, a magazine which was till recently a mumbling mouthpiece for radio analysts, crooners and comedians...