Word: isolationist
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Robert Taft last week published his long-heralded book, A Foreign Policy for Americans (Doubleday; $2). It should finally dispose of the charge that Taft is an isolationist (but probably will not). It explains many Taft votes on specific issues, sharply revises many former Taft opinions, and collects in one place a rounded statement of Taft's philosophy of foreign policy...
...isolationism. Dulles answered this partisan crack with a calm statement indicating that the President had not correctly given Dulles' reason for turning down Truman's offer. Said Dulles: "As regards the Republican Party, I do not share the President's concern. The Republican Party is not isolationist, and I see no danger that it will become...
Americans, for the most part, are sick and tired of the waste, corruption and flagrant mismanagement of the Tru-Deal, but feel just as strongly against Isolationist Bob and the so-called Old Guard Republicans...
...Howard Buffett, Nebraska Republican and diehard isolationist; Fred Marshall, Minnesota Democrat and farmer, who had "no quarrel" with the bill, but wanted to register "no confidence in the spending policies of the Defense Department...
...Republican candidate," said the bitterly isolationist Tribune, "Eisenhower would be a joke. He was one of the coterie owing his advancement to George C. Marshall when the latter was Mr. Roosevelt's Army chief of staff . . . For Roosevelt and Marshall to install Eisenhower as Supreme Commander in Europe necessitated jumping him over 366 officers who ranked him. Eisenhower achieved his advancement through New Deal patronage, and he is not likely to forget it... Eisenhower was picked up by the extremely wealthy internationalists comprising the board of trustees of Columbia University and was named president of Columbia. But Truman kept...