Word: isolationist
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Thomas' pacifism wavered during the Spanish Civil War, when he sympathized with the loyalist opposition to Franco. But it led him to speak against the U.S. intervention in World War II before isolationist America First audiences, because he feared that entry into the war would bring about fascism at home. Later, however, he concluded that an Axis triumph would condemn the world to the "lowest circle of hell," and gave "critical support" to the war. But when the U.S. used the atomic bomb against Japan, he cried out in protest...
Nixon might lead the nation back into isolationist foreign policies and protectionist trade policies. In Asia, Latin America and Africa, many governments are concerned that the new Administration-or Congress-might cut back even further on foreign aid, despite Nixon's growing internationalist outlook...
Oklahoma. "Basically I am a conservative," explains Republican Henry Bellmon, "but I am sure as hell not a John Bircher or an isolationist." His political acumen made Bellmon, now 47, the first Republican Governor (1963-67) in Oklahoma's 61-year history, and now sends him to the Senate. Mindful that he overturned able Democratic Veteran Senator Mike Monroney with the argument that Monroney, 66, had lost touch with his grass roots, Rancher Bellmon is not likely to spend all his time in Washington...
...sell the U.S. on the idea of material aid, he cabled his editors from Europe shortly after Hitler invaded Belgium, "it probably won't matter much what these estimable publications say in years to come"). He saw that World War II marked the end of an uncertain, isolationist period in U.S. life-he called it a shameful period-and realized that it also marked the beginning of global U.S. influence, which he welcomed in a famous LIFE editorial entitled "The American Century...
Nonetheless, the lackluster or extremist quality of his opponents is likely to ensure Fulbright a fifth term. One candidate, Foster Johnson, 53, campaigns wearing a sandwich board "so nobody will have any trouble knowing who I am." Another, Bobby K. Hayes, 37, preaches an isolationist populist program that includes such unlikely reforms as a $2.50-an-hour minimum wage and elimination of capital gains taxes. Fulbright's strongest adversary is former State Supreme Court Justice Jim Johnson, 44, an avowed segregationist whose extremism as the Dem ocratic nominee for Governor in 1966 helped make Winthrop Rockefeller Arkansas' first...