Word: isolationist
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...surmised that the Californian hopes to gather a few delegates there in order to offset the situation in his own state. Mr. Johnson's fences are in none too good repair at home. The California Republican organization is against him, the southern Californians do not like his isolationist policies and the Hoover-Coolidge supporters are strong. Mr. Johnson's campaign is barely getting started and it will probably have plenty of financial backing. William Wrigley, Jr. (chewing gum) and Albert D. Lasker (advertising), ex-Chairman of the Shipping Board, are evidently behind...
...those who, with Roosevelt, split the Republican ranks in 1912. (Johnson was nominated for Vice President by the Progressives in that year.) Again, the Californian is regarded as a leader for the dissenters within the Republican party?not the radical La Follettonian dissenters, but the conservative, League-abhorring, strict-isolationist group. Those who want such a leader would like to make the dinner in Senator Johnson's honor a protest against the World Court proposal and a jubilant first step towards the White House in 1925 for the great irreconcilable...
...member .of the Foreign Relations Committee it was generally noted that another irreconcilable had been added?another opponent of President Harding's proposal for participation in the International Court. Politicians all noted that Mr. Pepper had been one of the outstanding opponents of the League?a strict isolationist. As might have been expected, Senator Lodge knew what he was doing...
...stead. "Both Johnson and Moses are going to Europe," says a statement issued by the National Democratic Committee, "in quest of ammunition to fire at Mr. Harding and his proposition with respect to American participation in the International Court. Confident that only an irreconcilable and a confirmed isolationist can win the next election, Senator Moses and his associates wish to settle the issue within the party before the nomination is made, so as to present a united party attitude to the people at the next election." So runs the Democratic propaganda. Experts in political strategy point out that this...
...fact remains, however, that the President's supporters of his own party will be in a distinct minority on the Committee, and any attempts on his part to put in effect anything but an isolationist policy will be met by strong opposition...