Word: isolationist
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...expected, isolationist outbursts in the press (notably Hearst's) and Congress were evoked by the President's promise of U. S. participation in a world disarmament and economic conference. But a Gallup poll revealed that 73% of the U. S. people "would like to see the heads of the leading nations" confer...
...When Dean Helen Taft Manning of Bryn Mawr College-isolationist sister of Presidentially ambitious Senator Robert A. Taft who last week accused Franklin D. Roosevelt of "ballyhooing" war in order to play politics (see p. 21)-urged the same committee to stiffen the present neutrality law and make it more instead of less inflexible, arch-isolationist Senator Borah demanded: "Haven't the people [of the U. S.] already made up their minds who is right and who is wrong? The world is already at war. Already things have taken place which make other nations look...
Idaho, home of Isolationist Senator Borah, backed his judgment and viewed with alarm the direction in which events were drifting. To some young Idahoans, the prospect of war seemed adventurous. ("Look at the fun Dad had in the World War.") Others talked of heading for the hills with a pack horse...
Minneapolis was isolationist: let Britain stop Hitler. President Roosevelt's interventionist policy was appraised as largely bluff, and approved as such...
...score of States and the birth of a new grandson ("Little John" Boettiger) in Seattle, had seen and been seen by people all the way from peon pecan-shellers to her son Jimmy's boss, Samuel Goldwyn. On this trip, she said, she had encountered less Isolationist sentiment than ever before. Said she: "There are still people who think that we can cut ourselves off from the rest of the world, but more people are less secure in this belief...