Word: isolationist
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...Congress, Representatives and Senators spoke according to their isolationist, interventionist, ethical views. But on the floor they were baffled and silent...
...Straw was an amendment offered by New York's big-boned Harvard Republican isolationist from Franklin Roosevelt's neighborhood, Hamilton Fish. Representative Fish, taking his cue from a proposal which the Senate had rejected by a narrow 43-to-41, proposed to defer calling up of men for 60 days after the passage of the bill, to see whether the necessary number of men could be raised by voluntary recruiting. Practical effect of this device, since the Army expected to need six weeks to get its registration machinery in order, anyway, would be to delay the draft...
...Isolationist Senators took advantage of Sir George's remarks to demand an investigation of all British propagandists in the U. S. The State Department and the FBI promised to look into Sir George's activities. A member of the Embassy staff told the Washington Post: "We wish someone would drop Sir George Paish over Germany as a pamphlet...
...after the invasion of the Lowlands, and the beginning of the Battle of France, that the isolationist front began to waver, and the war of words grew more bitter. Toward the end of May, 300 undergraduates signed a petition to President Roosevelt registering their determination "never, under any circumstances, to follow in the footsteps of the students of 1917." This raised a storm of protest in the press over the alleged defeatism and lack of patriotism of Harvard students...
TIME keeps good company. Its foreign policy plank is just about as clear-cut as those of the G. O. P. and the Democratic Party, as nicely calculated to appeal to both interventionist and isolationist customers. I trust it didn't take as long to write...