Word: isolationist
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...tend to exaggerate the lily-white coverage of Britain by American newspapers when you do not mention Colonel McCormick and other isolationist papers in this country. Even papers which are not anti-British . . . emphasize how expensive those countries are for us rather than the debt we owe them for holding the line in two wars until we were ready to make our own sacrifices for the world's freedom...
Foreign Relations. Wisconsin's back-slapping Alexander Wiley, a self-described humorist, who was an ardent isolationist before Pearl Harbor, has now moved, thanks partly to his British-born bride, all the way to internationalism. He sees himself as a new Vandenberg; others see him merely as a new Wiley...
...Indiana, Senator William E. Jenner, a blatant isolationist, barely managed to turn back Democratic Governor Henry Schricker's strong bid for the Senate seat...
...Missouri, W. Stuart Symington ousted Republican James Kem, whose isolationist record in the Senate had been attacked by the Democrats as a national bad example. Symington, onetime St. Louis industrialist (Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co.) who has held five top U.S. Government posts in the past seven years (among them: Secretary of the Air Force, administrator of the RFC), is a close friend of Ike Eisenhower, can be expected to cooperate with the new President...
...actual count, Bricker has voted "no" more times than any other member of the last three Senates. Following the straight isolationist line, he has opposed Marshall Plan aid and branded Truman's decision to send troops to Korea "unconstitutional." His original contribution to isolationism has been a proposed amendment to the Constitution negating the enforcement provisions of the UN Covenant on Human Rights. Also a stand-patter domestically, Bricker was one of the few Senators to vote against 14 of the 16 provisions of the Hoover Commission...