Word: isolationist
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Against superior naval force can the U. S. successfully be defended? Last May the question was before the Senate Naval Affairs Committee as it considered a $100,000,000 expansion of the Navy. Wrote Isolationist Senator Walsh in the committee's report...
...homes. We cannot get along without the rest of the world and we know it, but we fail to see that we cannot try to adapt ourselves to a changing world and still keep our own faith in those particulars which are important. We resent the term "Isolationist" as typical of the "weasel words" used by crooked politicians, for we are trying to be "Realists" as opposed to those whose thinking is based upon a possibly outmoded European setup. We are not Pros for anything except our own general scheme of Democracy, and we see no sense in those...
Though the peace story ran its course in less than a week, it had had its intended effect. It had shaken Britain's faith in her leaders, had probably increased isolationist sentiment in the U. S. by making U. S. citizens believe that Britain's cause was hopeless. It was Hitler's old familiar technique of waging war with words. With rumors, fear, suspicion diabolically sown, he had again set out to demoralize his enemy before the cannon spoke...
Last week Father Henry thought differently. Reason: a fervent isolationist, he will manufacture only for "Defense," not for Britain.* At once the entire deal was declared off. Defense Commissioner William S. Knudsen issued a pained, circumstantial account; Morgenthau explained that inasmuch as Britain had given the U.S. permission to make the Rolls motor, "fairness and policy" required that Britain should have the right to buy them. Said Henry Ford: "My offer to make airplanes, aviation engines or anything else the U. S. Government needs for defensive purposes still stands...
...Propaganda and the United States is a pretty good job of isolationist propaganda itself...