Word: isolationist
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...exposed to-and agreed with-the strongly interventionist views of most of his college professors, who insisted that the U.S. had a duty to go to war against Nazism and Fascism. This puts him in an ideal position to point out the inconsistency of the professors' present isolationist position. In an essay published in 1940, when he was all of 21 and fresh out of Yale, Bundy wrote that "though war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils...
...this heightened interest, the CRIMSON began to print reports from the United Press on its front page every morning. The big issue in 1937-1938 and in the following two years was America's role in the world conflict that seemed more and more inevitable. A debate be between isolationist Republican Rep. Hamilton Fish '10 and Farmer-Labor Rep. John T. Bernard, who favored collective security, drew a large crowd. Malcolm R. Wilkey '40, just returned from a trip to the Far East, warned in a CRIMSON article that Japan's quarrel with China was far more serious than generally...
...bill-revising immigration to give priority to highly skilled people rather than fixing quotas arbitrarily for each country. This bill may hit a snag in the House, for the immigration subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee is chaired by testy Ohio Democrat Michael Feighan, who is as close to an isolationist as there is in today's Congress...
...putting in 47 months in World War II with the Navy, 24 of them in the Pacific, he went home with the rank of lieutenant commander and barged into politics. With the help of Senator Arthur Vandenberg, who was one of Jerry's early mentors, Ford knocked off Isolationist Congressman Barney Jonk-man in the 1948 Republican primary, easily defeated his Democratic opponent in the November election. With his bride of three months, pretty ex-Model Elizabeth Bloomer, he headed for Washington...
...also a political error? Barry Goldwater thought so, and immediately hurled the word "isolationist" at Johnson-giving back the label with which Democrats had bedeviled Republicans for two decades. "The eyes and ears of the entire world were turned to that speech," said Barry, "looking and listening for the vision and strength that would once again put America on the high road of world leadership. Instead, the world witnessed a vision turned inward, isolated and sighted only toward domestic political advantage...