Word: isolationist
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...other Socialist countries render to the less-developed countries, and try to induce them to question the purpose of the assistance." No effort is being made to show the extent of Soviet intellectual dishonesty in the dispute. The limited critical energies of the media are devoted to ridiculing Chinese isolationist ignorance, an ignorance primarily enforced by U.S. policy...
...Democrats were outraged at what they considered to be Halleck's betrayal. Majority Leader Carl Albert charged that the G.O.P. was staging a sitdown strike. A White House aide, with more ardor than accuracy, said the whole affair was "an attempt by the Midwest isolationist wing of the Republican Party, headed by Mr. Halleck, to seize control of the party and impose its will on the foreign policy of the United States." President Johnson delayed his Christmas trip back to Texas, wrote in a memorandum to Speaker McCormack: "It is not difficult to imagine the reaction of the rest...
Goldberg also attacked the whole doctrine of noninterference in internal affairs as a "reflection of the callousness of the present age." "Our country once took the lead in proclaiming the concept that human rights ought to be internationally protected," he declared. "It was only when we reacted in an isolationist fashion to the League of Nations that we began to march backwards...
...make use of a nether-world such as her postwar England; but a good writer uses it to comment on reality rather than to indulge a hypothetical vision. Miss Laski's commentary lacks political validity: in presenting her image of nuclear destruction, she strains toward praise of an isolationist status quo. Thus Rachel Verney informs her Amercan rescuer, "for five years I've been free from guilt. I've lived in peace with my family." War is shown to be the disrupter of a contented world, rather than the outgrowth of a disparite and unjust...
Dudley men are proud of their House, and have a House spirit and friendliness unmatched at some of the preppier or isolationist Houses. Despite the time Dudley men spend commuting or holding down part-time jobs, participation in athletics and extra-curricular activities is high...