Word: isolationist
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...Jack Kennedy has spent the last year charming Massachusetts' voters, lately at tea parties organized by women Democrats. They brew a big dish of tea, invite scores of citizens to meet his mother and his pretty sisters. Then Jack shows up to shake hands. The "internationalist" son of "isolationist" Businessman Joseph P. Kennedy, onetime U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's (1937-40), Jack has deep family roots in Massachusetts politics: his maternal grandfather, John F. ("Honey Fitz") Fitzgerald, was twice elected mayor of Boston, served three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives...
Korea, in Dewey's itinerary, is certainly not set down as a "Truman war," the gibing phrase of isolationist Republicans, although the governor feels that weak U.S. Asiatic policy encouraged the Communist attack. By grasshopper plane, he hopped across the ridge-backed front, talking with U.S. officers and men. He is "deeply convinced" of the Tightness of the Korean war: it is the safeguard of all free Asia...
...speech had in spots the quality of a bugle blowing "Assembly." It offered no panaceas, but it rang with a kind of hope and strength that Americans have not lately heard from their leaders. The speech also served notice that he plans to pin on Robert Taft the "isolationist" label that the Ohioan heatedly rejects...
...doggedly isolationist New York Daily News, the nation's biggest newspaper (circ. 2,251,430), surprised nobody by endorsing Taft as the man who can "start this country toward salvation from the Fascism and Socialism of Truman's misnamed Fair Deal." The News's candidate for Vice President: Dwight Eisenhower...
Bertie McCormick's isolationist Chicago Tribune usually has no more use for the Christian Science Monitor than it does for any other global-minded U.S. newspaper. But last week the Trib found something in the Monitor that it endorsed...