Word: isolationist
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Last week it looked as if no candidate on record had presented so many unpalatable arguments to so many possible supporters as had Wendell Willkie. He had spurned isolationist support and the backing of Father Coughlin; he had warned of the need for toil and sweat, sacrifice and hardship; he went up & down the land telling a people accustomed to hearing of its strength, of its present and future weaknesses. Last week's Gallup poll suggested that this course was not getting him many votes. But it was making him an increasingly able popularizer of one of the world...
...Cried Isolationist Senator Bennett Champ Clark: "Outrageous proposition . . . senile, reactionary president of Columbia . . . pothouse Republican politician." On the Columbia campus, meanwhile, eight professors (including Anthropologist Franz Boas, Economist Wesley Mitchell, Sociologist Robert Lynd, Chemist Harold Urey) asked their president to clarify his views on their freedom...
...Charles Evans Hughes's failure to shake Hiram Johnson's hand in 1916 had cost him California, and California had cost him the Presidency. The moment the candidate crossed the California State line he came out with a bellow for that "great, fighting, fearless liberal, Hiram Johnson"-isolationist Senator Johnson, who has opposed much that Candidate Willkie stands for, particularly aid to the Allies. To the Willkie overture Senator Johnson made no immediately audible reply...
...destroyer deal, and often says what Frank lin Roosevelt wants spoken, cried again: "England's critical need is not for men but for ships, planes and supplies. . . . There fore, I call upon the President to make available to England . . . flying fortresses, bombers, fighting planes and warships." Wailed Isolationist Senator Bennett Clark of Missouri: "If the British ask the President they will get the flying fortresses . . . and almost anything else they want...
...charcoal stick, if not in his words. Where once he drew blood, desolation, barbed wire, ravished women, a demoniacal Kaiser, he now pictured the forces of the world in abstract, often obvious, images. Churchill was a bluff skipper, Stalin a leering Satan, Hitler a skeleton, the U. S. Isolationist something like a village idiot. A devout Roman Catholic, Raemaekers seemed increasingly preoccupied with the lonely, grave figure of Jesus wandering through the world...