Word: isolationist
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...Party Conference at Scarborough. There Government & Party Leader Chamberlain, in the course of delivering a speech which stressed British Rearmament and was wildly cheered, said: "Hitherto it has been assumed that the United States of America -the most powerful country in the world -would remain content with a frankly isolationist policy. But President Roosevelt has seen that if what he calls an epidemic of world lawlessness is allowed to spread no country will be safe from attack...
...their negotiations by a third impartial country. As bait for maintenance of a moderate government and a real attempt to live peacefully the League of Nations might grant a large loan. It was bribery of this sort that set Central Europe on stable feet after the World War. Isolationist sentiment ties the hands of the United States, the logical country to offer itself as arbiter between the sides and as manager of the League loan. The award of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1936 to the Foreign Minister of the Argentine directs attention to the part South America is starting...
Oddly enough, chief opposition to this ultra-isolationist measure came from the Senate's two most famed isolationists, Borah of Idaho and Johnson of California, both veterans of the League fight of 1919. For those oldsters, isolation means that the U. S. shall not only mind its own business, but shall also stand up for its rights. To them, the Pittman proposal seemed a craven yielding up of the great right of freedom of the seas, for which the nation had stood through all its history. Furthermore, they declaimed, it would not bring peace, but war. Since only...
...discretion export of arms & munitions to the aggressor in any war. Then & there arose the issue which has divided U. S. neutrality-seekers ever since, setting the Senate implacably against the President and State Department. Unwilling to let the President pick sides in a war by naming the aggressor, isolationist Senators asserted that an arms embargo should apply automatically to all belligerents. Otherwise, they argued, the embargoed nation would be certain to strike back exactly as Germany had struck. Firmly the State Department held that the President should be allowed to decide when and against whom he would...
...third year of the European War Howey, attracted by William Randolph Hearst's isolationist policy concerning the U. S., went over to the Herald & Examiner as managing editor. On the Herex city desk was a battery of telephones, one painted white. When the white one rang, a desk editor seized it in a flash. It was a private wire from a police department switchboard, whose operators were on Howey's secret payroll. Detectives never could understand why they nearly always found Herex newshawks at a crime scene before them...