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...American Constitution was framed for an isolationist state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Time News Quiz: The Time News Quiz, Jun. 22, 1953 | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

...than setting higher tariffs and new import quotas and pumping more aid into Europe, Congress should give Eisenhower's proposed Study Commission a chance to formulate a sensible tariff policy. It should extend the Reciprocal Trade Agreements, following the International Business Machine slogan "THINK," rather than racing into costly, isolationist barriers to trade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Escalator Tariff | 5/14/1953 | See Source »

...country's publications. Most of them devoted columns to the immensity of Malenkov's torso, which was the only concrete thing not state in Who's Who. But the News editors made some positive evaluations of the dictator. On March 13, "Tomorrow" explained, "Malenkov is untried, probably isolationist at heart, without knowledge of the world outside Russia, inherently cautious. Malenkov, even if he tries to be tough, will frighten less than Stalin". A week later, the editors reconsidered: "Malenkov is a much more dangerous man than Stalin. He's less cautious, more daring, more disdainful of words from the West...

Author: By Byron R. Wien, | Title: Getting the Inside Dope | 4/17/1953 | See Source »

Saved at Lunch. By 1940, as war raged in Europe, La Follette's star was waning. Like his father, he was an isolationist, and when he inveighed against lend-lease and the neutrality act, he lost votes. Franklin Roosevelt saved him from defeat in the 1940 senatorial campaign. In 1934 Roosevelt publicly called him "old friend," and then invited him to a well-publicized White House luncheon as a campaign boost. After Pearl Harbor, Young Bob supported the bipartisan foreign policy, but late in the war he put on his old isolationist hat again. The United Nations, he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Insurgent's Way | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

Louis Nemzer, Research associate in the Russian Research Center, feels that should Malenkov gain power it would be much more difficult to "work out a modus vivendi" with the Russians. He called Malonkov a "primitive, crude, isolationist type," pointing out that he has rarely been outside the country and is almost completely ignorant of foreign problems. He also has a reputation for being "the most unpleasant and inaccessible" of the top Soviet leaders, according to Nemzer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stalin | 3/5/1953 | See Source »

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