Word: isolationist
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...coherent principles guiding its distribution. He and others suggested funneling funds through multinational agencies to remove resentment against U.S. dollar diplomacy. NEW NATIONALISM. While many Senators contended that they would support a better-managed and more clearly principled foreign aid program, the vote did indicate a rising nationalist or isolationist trend in the U.S. Nixon's own doctrine, perhaps unfairly, has been interpreted as reflecting such a trend. Nixon can be faulted for stimulating an America-first mood by his protectionist New Economic Policy, including import surcharges. Some of his recent postures seemed to proclaim an attitude...
...BECOMING ISOLATIONIST...
...prospect of an isolationist America perturbed the Europeans. Giuseppe Bertola, of Switzerland's Brown Boveri, said: "I have always found in America a certain missionary zeal. The First World War made the world safe for democracy and revived in Europe the truth about the American dream, the American way of life, and so on. Now it seems that this missionary zeal has been lost in the big changes through which we are passing. America speaks no more of leadership, but of partnership. Everybody is confused by what is intended, because just at a moment when it is necessary...
Spread in the Wind. During Johnson's push for the presidential nomination at the 1960 Democratic National Convention, Connally again proved his loyalty by circulating questioning stories about John Kennedy's health and raising the issue of Joseph Kennedy's isolationist sentiments before the war. Nonetheless, after Kennedy was elected, he appointed Connally Secretary of the Navy, partly to please Vice President Johnson. Within a year Connally quit and returned to Texas, where in 1962 he successfully ran for Governor. He served until 1968, when he declined to run for a fourth term, telling friends he had had his fill...
...time began to run out on the traditional faith. U.S. foreign trade doubled between 1870 and 1890. Navy Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, a visionary military strategist, saw the seas as an "open plain" and urged the country "to cast aside the policy of isolation which befitted her infancy." The isolationist past was decisively rejected by Woodrow Wilson's intervention on the Allied side in World War I, but it was revived by the disillusionment that followed his crusade to make the world safe for democracy. The anti-internationalist movement reached a peak of influence in the years just before...