Word: isolationist
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...think some of the arguments used in your Credo justifying the isolationist stand deserve to be answered from the opposite viewpoint...
...first eight months of World War 11 most U. S. churchmen were pacifist, isolationist. Likewise isolationist were most other U. S. citizens. But since May 10, remarkable changes have come over plain U. S. isolationists: With German Blitzkrieg in the Low Countries, they veered from isolation almost as fast as German columns advanced...
...isolationist groups admitted no official change: Lutherans, Catholics. German traditions played some part in Lu theran neutrality; but Lutherans of Scandinavian and Netherlands origin were no less stanchly isolationist...
...Peppery Isolationist Charles Clayton Morison, editor of Christian Century, means to carry on, too. "This is not our war," said he, "it is not a war for saving civilization, but is itself the destruction of civilization." Quakers remained men of peace at any price. Some Mennonites perhaps did not yet know a war was going on: they spurn newspapers, magazines, radios...
...those things. . . ." Republicans. While straws in the wind still showed a general trend to the G. O. P., Candidate Thomas E. Dewey, still leading the field, maintained his second tack on foreign policy. In New York (Jan. 20) Mr. Dewey was close to Mr. Roosevelt's position; in Isolationist Wisconsin (March 30) he went Isolationist with a big I; last week he insisted any additional aid to the Allies would lead to U. S. involvement...