Word: isolationist
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...McCormick reflected that "much water has run over the dam since then. The colonel's ideas . . . are far different from those of his former guest . . . But are their ideas so far apart? If Churchill were in the service of our Government, would he not be called an isolationist...
...than the Tories ... He ascribes [British] foreign policy to Churchill's senility, Eden's obsessive desire for the prime ministership, and the appeasement elements of the Tory Party. The truth is that British foreign policy is as it is for the same reason American foreign policy was isolationist in 1939: the vast preponderance of the people want it that...
...Washington Post (circ. 201,645) and Washington Times-Herald (253,532) were about as unlike as two metropolitan dailies could be: the Post is internationalist and often New Dealish, although it backed Eisenhower; the Times-Herald was isolationist and archconservative, bore unhappily with Ike. But last week the two papers came to complete agreement on one of the biggest newspaper deals in U.S. history. For $8,500,000 the Post's Board Chairman Eugene Meyer, 78, bought the ailing (estimated $500,000 loss last year) Times-Herald from its ailing publisher, Colonel Robert R. (Chicago Tribune) McCormick...
...executives, who had been willed the paper by McCormick's cousin, Cissy Patterson), he has had trouble with it. McCormick transformed it from a racy, sensational, popular daily into a paper much like his Chicago Tribune, to bring "the United States [i.e., the colonel's isolationist view of the world] to Washington...
...accounts. Many Milwaukeeans were so furious that Nieman posted armed guards outside the paper's doors, barred the windows and gave staffers revolvers to carry. For its campaign, the Journal won a Pulitzer Prize in 1919. The campaign also intensified the Journal's feud with the pro-isolationist Progressive Party, a feud that started when Democrat Lute Nieman had a political falling out with onetime Republican Bob LaFollette...