Word: isolationist
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These Christians objected to the isolationist-pacifist line taken by the Christian Century (and by most of the Roman Catholic press*): "That, since all war is unChristian, Christians in neutral nations should not discriminate between belligerents . . . that Christian citizens of nations at war are disloyal to their Christian faith if they give support to their Governments or armies." This view, said the signers, "seems to us to be due to intellectual confusion and to tend toward moral callousness and national self-righteousness and irresponsibility." In full agreement with most Allied churchmen, the 31 affirmed...
...final question was, "The President's role in a warring world is that of (a) an active (or passive, i.e. 'available') arbitrator or (b) an active (or passive) isolationist. Select one, or suggest an alternative, and defend. Five minutes...
...Extreme isolationist view is that U. S. interests in China (with only two-thirds the value of the U. S. domestic barber business) and U. S. resources in the Philippines (gold, iron, chromite, manganese, tobacco, hemp, timber, sugar) are not worth holding at the risk of conflict; that the U. S. should withdraw to the Panama-Hawaii-Alaska front, strengthen defenses there...
...land that paid its war debts, and carried on a brisk trade with the United States. Now it is being ruthlessly destroyed. The effect over here on the large body of Scandinavians in the Northwestern States will not be insignificant. Thus far they have meant a great bloc of isolationist sentiment in Congress, but their enthusiasm to steer clear of the European turmoil may be dimmed by the present tragedy of a nation...
...three Representatives interested in Mr. Anderson's story, one was an Isolationist. Ammunition for House debate in coming weeks was what they furnished. Embarrassment to the Donaldson Atlantic Line (owner of the Athenia) was what they caused. Said Donaldson in Glasgow: "Tommyrot and absolute nonsense...