Word: isolationist
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Everybody was an Isolationist, regardless of party. The first New Dealers who went to Washington with Franklin Roosevelt were the New Isolationists, intent on a Brave New World. Raymond Moley, impatient with the fuddy-duddy, international-cooperation ideas of Tennessee's Cordell Hull, was horrified at the President's willingness to consult with Herbert Hoover's world-minded Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson. "Three thousand miles of good green water" on each coast seemed an ample guaranty of security forever...
...Once-isolationist newspapers demanded preparedness on a scale unthinkable two months ago. The Chicago Tribune denounced Army & Navy bureaucrats, called the Navy obsolete, insisted on a mammoth air force...
Army in 1925 for accusing the high command of incompetence, were dug up by Scripps-Howard Reporter Ruth Finney: "In future wars it will be too late to organize an air force after the contest begins." ¶ In Congress, rabid Isolationist Hamilton Fish stunned the House by voicing a solemn hope for non-partisan harmony in the crisis, a hope that "at least for the time being no effort will be made to criticize the Administration. . . ." ¶The American Red Cross ordered 50 more air-conditioned ambulances, 100 auxiliary hospital trucks, ten field hospitals, quantities of surgical instruments; drove...
...issue: Kentucky's leathery Representative Andrew May, chairman, House Military Affairs Committee, called for repeal of the hitherto inviolable Johnson Act, banning all U. S. loans and credits to any defaulting debtor nation which blocks loans to the Allies. The Act's author, old World War I Isolationist Hiram Johnson of California, cried indignantly ". . . road to war." > What stand, if any, should...
take on foreign affairs? 15J"on-conformist Republican Wendell L. Willkie slugged that question at his own party's keynoter, Isolationist Governor Harold Stassen of Minnesota. Speaking in Minneapolis, heart of supposedly Isolation country...