Word: isolationist
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...plate dinner in Manhattan in honor of Vice President Nelson Rockefeller. The President chided Congress for opposing his foreign policy as well as his economic program. He drew on another historical figure, Michigan Senator Arthur Vandenberg, to emphasize the need for a bipartisan foreign policy. A onetime Republican isolationist, Vandenberg persuaded members of his own party to support Truman's interventionist policy. "I do not expect 535 reincarnations of Senator Vandenberg," said Ford. "But I challenge the Senate and the House to give me the same consideration that Vandenberg sought and got for President Truman." More articulate than...
Died. Burton K. Wheeler, 92, isolationist Montana Senator (1923-47); in Washington, D.C. First elected in 1922, Democrat Wheeler gained a national reputation with his aggressive investigation of the Teapot Dome oil scandal, later became an ardent New Dealer. He broke with F.D.R. over the President's plan to enlarge and pack the Supreme Court, earning a reputation as "the man who whipped Roosevelt." As World War II engulfed Europe, Wheeler became an America Firster, charging that aid to besieged Britain would drag the U.S. into a fight that would "plow under every fourth American boy." Defeated for renomination...
Preoccupation with economic conditions has contributed to what Yankelovich regards as a growing isolationist trend in the country. Only 2% of those polled listed any aspect of foreign affairs as a major national concern. Furthermore, contrary to the opinion of all respected economists, 55% of the people surveyed believe that inflation can be solved by domestic action alone. Only 38% understand that handling inflation requires worldwide solutions and agreements. The belief that inflation is primarily a domestic matter cut across party lines and political views...
Nonetheless, Lindbergh never recanted his isolationist position. While he was never an anti-Semite or a fascist, as some charged at the time, he remained appallingly insensitive to the true evils of the Hitler regime. "His self-confidence thickened into arrogance," said English Writer Harold Nicolson, an old friend. "His mind had been sharpened by fame and tragedy until it had become as hard, as metallic and as narrow as a chisel...
...Bolshevik Revolution. He founded the Seversky Aircraft Corp. (later Republic Aviation); helped develop the automatic bombsight, the automatic pilot and in-flight fueling; and built and test-flew a number of advanced fighters and amphibious planes. On the eve of World War II the autocratic Russian clashed with Isolationist Charles Lindbergh by arguing that the Axis could be defeated from the air, then spelled out a program for military dominance through long-range superbombers in a 1942 bestseller, Victory Through Air Power...