Word: isolationist
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There was a moment of stunned silence after the names were read: Isolationist Senator Clark of Missouri leaped up and cried. "Who?" If there was an opportunity to debate calmly the merits of Republicans Stimson and Knox in a Democratic Cabinet, the opportunity disappeared in the feverish political atmosphere of Convention Week. Senatorial debate grew bitter, reached a new low in wild charges and venomous insinuations, punctuated with cries of warmongering from Isolationists, and virtual accusations of treason from West Virginia's lame-duck Rush Holt. Both the Naval Affairs Cormmittee and the Committee on Military Affairs decided...
...apparent majority opinion to the contrary notwithstanding, it is a fact that an isolationist may have ideals too. However . . . in the name of Democracy, let's make the Isolationists junk them and join the loudest camp...
...order to keep down the damned lopsidedness of your incoming mail I'm contributing my bit to the stack of isolationist and pacifist letters that you will surely receive. . . . If this is the only letter you receive to chalk up on the calm side of your War Score Board, I'll have to start thinking about that two-by-four island in the Caribbean again...
...Senatorial concerns were domestic: helping blow the lid off Teapot Dome, plugging for silverite legislation, building his reputation as an able, fighting Liberal. Among many things he was against were big armaments. But he gave little heed to foreign affairs, did not trouble to label himself an Isolationist when that word still had punch...
...part in Europe's wars. Imposing was the next: bumbling and awkward U. S. democracy could not move so swiftly and efficiently in a crisis as could the totalitarian States. Behind these bastions lay fixed ideas like trenches: the Midwest was forever Isolationist; Labor could never make peace; the unemployed could never be absorbed; the U. S. was running down. Like some great chain of fortifications called impregnable because it had never been attacked, they stretched to the mind's far boundary-and there they ended, in the dull, masochistic conviction that civilization itself was perishing from...