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Marshall's words that day in June 1947 not only gave desperate Europe a reason to hope but also snatched the initiative in the cold war away from Russia. Marshall wrought a revolutionary departure in American foreign policy, wrenching the nation out of an isolationist disposition that tracked back to George Washington. The European recovery plan that bore Marshall's name-Harry Truman insisted it be so titled-set the stage for the primary defense arrangements in use today by the Atlantic community. Without the economic and political base created by the Marshall Plan, NATO could not have...
Terrill also discussed some changes in China's view of the world. The Chinese, once isolationist, are "now interested in the whole world," Terrill said...
Former Secretary of the Treasury John Connally warned that the U.S. must not take an isolationist stance in world affairs in the course of a speech to about 400 people at the Science Center last night. Connally said U.S. military superiority and American protection of other countries fosters free trade, promotes world prosperity, and helps to prevent a nuclear...
Disillusionment set in as the outcome of the war necessarily fell short of expectations, and indeed as the one-sided nature of the peace required ever greater efforts to maintain it against countries with no stake in the settlement. A tide of isolationist sentiment rose, in which moral proclamations were coupled with an unwillingness to undertake concrete commitments. We were loath to face a world of imperfect security, alliances of convenience, recurrent crises and the need for a political structure that would secure the peace...
...coalition of extreme left-and right-wing politicians launched a popular initiative against the proposal.When it came to a referendum last week, the Swiss resoundingly rejected the aid scheme, 713,855 to 550,557. The Tribune de Genève fretted that the outcome betrayed an "egoistic, isolationist trait in the Swiss character," but that hardly came as a surprise to critics of the country's preoccupation with money. They point out that the legal code inflicts heavier penalties for failure to pay a hotel bill than for statutory rape...