Word: isolationist
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ONCE AGAIN, only this time with greater potential than ever before, proponents of isolationism are letting their voices be heard in a national debate on American foreign policy. The virtual death of isolationist sentiment in this country, which, not long ago, it appeared possible to date, first to December 7, 1941, and more officially to Senator Vandenberg's advocacy of the United Nations in 1945, now shows itself to have been a mere illusion. Isolationism was sleeping, sleeping fitfully, and it is now aroused with renewed vigor and confidence...
...world is savage but somehow not believable. When the cops see a large black man bullying a white boy, O'Rourke hustles the outraged Gifford on. "Believe it or not," he explains, "they wouldn't want us to interfere. Not even the kid." Gifford responds to this fractured and isolationist image by blindly attempting to establish feeling contact with some of the warped souls he encounters in this "odyssey," as he calls it. It is not enough to see Kimberly Ann Regan's girl-friend cry and lament her own suffering over a pastromi sandwich during lunch-hour, then leave...
...well in the country, up sharply from 23% in February. Slightly more than one out of three Americans still worry a lot about becoming unemployed, but the number concerned about inflation has dropped to 53%, down twelve points since last winter. Moreover, the public shows no signs of turning isolationist because of the failure of U.S. policy in Southeast Asia. Indeed, only one out of four people thinks that the U.S. "from now on should not intervene militarily in another country...
...Fascists, who, flanked by black-shirted Biff Boys in the 1930s, praised Mussolini and Hitler and parroted their antiSemitism. But in fact, Mosley, now 78, has mesmerized, enraged and even amused generations of Englishmen, first as a Conservative M.P., then as an Independent Liberal, a Socialist Laborite, a Fascist isolationist and, finally, as a postwar internationalist preaching European unity. As the sixth in a line of Yorkshire baronets, Mosley frequently wore his own black shirt under a Savile Row suit...
Complainers and Cranks. Worse still, the dissenter may be relegated to the list of complainers and cranks. William Jennings Bryan quit as Wilson's Secretary of State in 1915 because he thought Wilson was leading the U.S. into war against Germany. He argued his isolationist case with reason and eloquence-and he proved right about the result of Wilson's policies. Yet papers hinted at "a befuddled mind," and Bryan's political career was ended. Elliot Richardson, now Ambassador to Britain, is the rare example of a successful American dissenter. But if his public resignation as Attorney...