Word: isolationist
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Quoting and agreeing with an article in LIFE by John Foster Dulles ("certainly, he is no isolationist"), Taft pointed out that NATO guards only 500 miles of the Soviet dominion's 20,000 miles of frontier with the free world. "In fact, our leaders have become the new isolationists. They would abandon most of Europe and most of Asia to Russia, and adopt a purely defensive policy which has no hope of bringing freedom to millions behind the Iron Curtain...
...labor opposition, and 2) foreign policy. The first is less important: 75% of the votes that labor leaders can swing against Taft can probably also be swung against Ike-or against any other Republican. The foreign-policy issue is more damaging. Taft is by no means an isolationist. His record indicates that, if he were President, he would try, in his own way, to build up the free world's cooperative strength against Communism. His views on the necessity of a stronger Air Force and the Navy emphasize this position. But his political opposition to Truman...
...They're made up of the Republicans of 1896 and 1920. And they worship William McKinley and Warren G. Harding . . . Even if the Republicans get a presidential candidate with a good record in foreign affairs, he will not be able to drown out the raucous isolationist outcries of the rest of the party...
...Kathleen Norris, 71, novelist and a onetime America Firster, plunked for Taft. Said she: "Most women lean toward an isolationist policy. We feel a lot more confidence in Mr. Taft keeping us out of entangling alliances than any of the other possible candidates...
...Johnston moved into Nebraska to set things up. He called Congressman Howard Buffett home to Omaha to help run the show. Johnston-Buffett & Co. made 75,000 telephone calls for Taft, mailed 60,000 pieces of literature, showing how to write in his name. Buffett appealed to the considerable isolationist sentiment in Nebraska. Said he: "Eisenhower ... is the candidate of those who would have American boys die as conscript cannon-fodder thousands of miles across the ocean...