Word: isolationist
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...America of the New Deal era was still isolationist, justifiably preoccupied with its own enormous problems, but this was a condition that could not last. Adolf Hitler had also put the unemployed to work at building superhighways and other showy projects, but now his obsession was to acquire new territory. In 1938 came the Nazis' Anschluss of Austria; in 1938 Hitler browbeat the British and French into letting him seize the Sudentenland area of Czechoslovakia in exchange for a false promise of "peace in our time." In 1938 too the Japanese pushed southward across China and captured Canton...
Lippmann helped draft the Lend-Lease Act. He talked World War I Hero John Pershing, then 80, into endorsing Roosevelt's destroyer deal with Britain, helped write Pershing's speech, then in print praised it. Similarly he and his colleague James Reston flattered the vain old Republican isolationist Arthur Vandenberg into supporting the United Nations in 1945, and wrote the turn-around speech that Vandenberg read to the Senate. And, of course, praised...
...never enough to make up for your loss." Either way, the survivor child is likely to feel isolated. Says Miriam Schiller, whose mother survived the Warsaw ghetto and Auschwitz: "When I was very little, all my parents' friends were survivors. Even among American Jews, I was an isolationist. I always felt separate from the people around...
...Steve Lundquist, 19, a swimmer from Southern Methodist University: "You look forward to this all your life. Suddenly they just pull it out from under you." At first Al Oerter, 43, a four-time gold medal winner in the discus, complained that U.S. withdrawal from the Games was "passive, isolationist, weak." But like many other athletes he had changed his mind by last week. Said he: "I feel we should stop bellyaching and get behind the President. It is time to put personal considerations aside...
Furthermore, to compare current military expenditures to the period before World War II is not entirely honest. Before World War II, we were an isolationist country whose total ground forces numbered less than 300,000. We relied on Great Britain and France, the "Great Powers," to keep the military balance in Europe. Even BSG admits they cannot do this alone today. The military needs of such an isolationist foreign policy cannot be compared with the needs of a global power--even a limited one as BSG advocates. Mark F. Cancian...