Word: isolationist
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Whether or not these reports were apocryphal, they were what would be expected of Garner by those who know him best: an isolationist in foreign affairs, a conservative in economics, a practical man in politics...
Publisher. By ardor and consistency Publisher William Randolph Hearst has proved his right to the title of No. 1 U. S. isolationist. He has maintained his single-minded foreign policy unbroken since the days when he sacrificed prestige, profits and popularity to oppose U. S. entry in the War even after that entry was an accomplished fact. When President Roosevelt's message revived the World Court issue old (71) Publisher Hearst, on his lordly ranch at San Simeon, Calif., tossed his long, horsey head and charged. Hearst editorial columns throughout the land shrilled and thundered with the threat...
...will be impossible to determine the effectiveness of this new method of approach until Germany has responded to the advances of England and France. If she persists in adopting her present isolationist attitude, she will drive her former opponents to far closer ties than have yet been cemented. But if she is able to recognize that Messrs. Eden, Simon, Laval and Flandin are doing all in their power to prevent another armageddon, and are sincere in their desire to right some of the wrongs inflicted on her by the Versailles Treaty, the new diplomacy will be firmly entrenched...
...faith, sinful Dunkers refrained from partaking. Later all dined on ten head of cattle. Unitarians of the American Unitarian Association and allied societies met in the centre of their stronghold-Boston. From Rev. Maxwell Savage of Worcester, Mass. they heard that their sect, "made up of separatist ministers and isolationist churches," is too individualistic. From Professor Reinhold Niebuhr they heard praise of sane optimism which comes after despair and suffering. From Rev. John Haynes Holmes they heard that contemporary civilization is collapsing, although it has produced four great men: Einstein, Freud, Lenin, Gandhi. Northern Baptists numbering...
...vain Professor Moley said on sailing. "I am going to make myself useful and furnish background for the Delegation." London whispers that Professor Moley, "The Isolationist," was coming to supersede Secretary Hull, "The Internationalist," dinned louder and louder until they beat like African war drums on the U. S. Delegation's sensitive ears...