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Despite some confusion as to parliamentary procedure and heckling by the isolationist-minded, the Harvard Chapter of the American Student Defense League went into high gear last night with the announcement of its credo, the enrollment of members, and short talks by the heads of various committees...
America lives today in a twilight zone that is neither peace nor war, and the light is fading fast. Though the words still pass current, yesterday's sharp distinctions between "peace and war," "neutrality and belligerency," "interventionist and isolationist" no longer hold any meaning. While the recognition of this fact eliminates the old clear-cut opposites as a framework for debate, it opens up a host of new and subtler choices, centering about the nature and extent of our participation...
...Republican opponents. As a warning to his Democratic opponent, State Highway Commissioner Murray D. Van Wagoner, Oldster Dickinson cackled: "Probably tens of thousands of my friends didn't vote for me, because I'm 81 years of age. . . . You can't blame them." Isolationist Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg won by 8-to-1 over a Detroit razor blade salesman named Bowen R. Grover...
...membership of this House is only an aggregation of self-serving politicians," its fate in a House of 435 politicians was sealed. The amendment was adopted 185-to-155. More notable to many a Representative was the sight of Republican National Chairman Joe Martin-not the only Republican more isolationist than his Presidential candidate-striding up to the teller to vote for the amendment beside his bearded fellow Bay Stater, Isolationist George Holden Tinkham...
...liberal, progressive paper, the Post-Dispatch approved most New Deal reforms, found few national causes for crusades until last spring. Then Editor Coghlan began to suspect that Franklin Roosevelt was trying to get the U. S. into war. The Post-Dispatch leaped on the barricades, waved an isolationist banner, launched a crusade...