Word: isolationist
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...step with the White House, Senator William Edgar Borah went to Minneapolis last week and there delivered before the summer convocation of the University of Minnesota a powerful address for the inclusion of Reparations, Debts and armaments as major economic factors in the London parley. Putting aside his famed isolationist views, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee called on the U. S. to take a world lead in the settlement of world problems. Excerpts: "We can't restore confidence in the business world until the vast load of armaments are lifted from the overburdened backs...
...hand he held a speech, too important to be delivered from memory. His white crest quivered with indignation and behind his spectacles his blue eyes gleamed resentfully. He was about to vent the full measure of his political bitterness, the full force of his distrust as as isolationist, and the full brilliance of disgruntled hindsight, upon the gentlemen who had conducted the country's international finance for the past decade. His speech summarized his conclusions on the Finance Committee's recent investigation of foreign loans. He had precipitated that inquiry, had cross-examined famed money lenders of Wall...
Last week the Senate Finance Committee dug deeper into the kind of foreign financing U. S. bankers do not discuss in detail on the front pages of the Press. Chief digger was white-crested Senator Hiram Johnson of California, determined to make political capital for his isolationist theory of foreign relations by exposing the loss of financial capital by U. S. investors in foreign securities. That his tactics annoyed the White House, the Department of State and the bankers, only spurred him on to greater inquisitiveness. Under scrutiny by the committee last week were loans to South American governments...
...close co-operation with other States. When these visits are taken in conjunction with the relation that has been established between the United States and the League in connection with the Manchurian dispute it becomes evident that the United States has in large part already abandoned any strictly isolationist policy...
...Borah's excursion might have on the foreign policy of the U. S. Would she return with such eye-opening statements of things heard and seen in Europe as to provoke her husband to make the trip himself? Would she bring back reports which would harden the isolationist views of the Senator...