Word: isolationist
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...must back the Administration's diplomatic and military policies to keep the Communists from misinterpreting congressional opposition as a sign of American weakness. Explained Liberal Democratic Senator Walter Mondale of Minnesota: "It's very important to signal the Soviets that we're not moving into an isolationist period...
...dead every decade, we're not very secure and our security isn't collective. One caution for young people: if they reject the mistakes of their fathers-and I'm one of them-they should not endorse the mistakes of their grandfathers [i.e., an isolationist attitude]. I think both the Republicans and the Democrats should suspend politics for the rest of this year. We've got to put our heads together and quietly debate the direction in which we wish to proceed, as we did immediately after World...
...FOREIGN POLICY stance remains what it was in 1948, when he ran as an "Internationalist" against an incumbent isolationist congressman. Ford campaigned in favor of the Marshall Plan, the United Nations, aid for veterans, as well as strong national defense. In his first term, Ford's Americans for Democratic Action rating was 13 per cent, rising to a surprising 67 per cent in 1966. But in 1967, he voted against OEO, Model Cities, and a federal rat control program--the Great Society left Gerry behind. In 1971, he was voting with congressional conservatives 87 per cent of the time...
Wayne S. Cole's Charles A. Lindbergh and the Battle Against American Intervention in World War 2 is his third book on this period. In America First: The Battle Against Intervention 1940-41. Cole detailed the history of the largest isolationist organization of that time, the America First Committee. Senator Gerald P. Nye and American Foreign Relations is a study of the career of one of Congress's most ardent isolationists. In Lindbergh, Cole documents the history of the aviator's involvement with anti-interventionists politics and presents a complete picture of Lindbergh's foreign policy views. The book...
Cole's study is a valuable resource for anyone interested in Lindbergh and in the isolationist movement. But for a meaningful personal evaluation of Lindbergh, one is forced to look elsewhere...