Word: isolationist
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...primary objections to Hoover's isolationist theories are not military, MacLeish said. "These can be disposed of in two sentences." What is important is that "temperamentally, we must follow our convictions. We cannot cower in cellars...
Another lame duck from the old 81st Congress combed the birdshot from his feathers last week and limped back into action. South Dakota's Republican Chan Gurney, who lost his Senate seat to Isolationist Francis Case in a primary election last spring, won his reward for loyal support of Administration defense programs on the Armed Services Committee. The reward: a presidential appointment to fill out the remaining 22 months of a vacant seat on the Civil Aeronautics Board. Salary: $15,000 a year...
...Little Toehold. Then the bored Connally perked up. The Republicans' Harold Stassen appeared, to damn the Wherry resolution and coolly out-badger fuming and contentious Senator Kenneth Wherry. And the next day Thomas E. Dewey, in his first appearance before a congressional committee, dealt his isolationist colleagues one of the most demolishing forensic blows they had yet received...
Dorothy Frank Cowen, wife of U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines Myron Cowen, is a statuesque, energetic woman who won't tell her age. In her youth she studied music and dancing in France, later worked in the children's ward of Bellevue Hospital, served with anti-isolationist groups before Pearl Harbor. In Manila, Mrs. Cowen's relations with socially prominent Filipino women have not always been marked by intense cordiality. Last week she went to a luncheon of 200 Manila clubwomen to talk about the opening of a new charity playground. After congratulating her audience on their...
...great patriot, who is trying to execute a great commission, accused of trying to sell the American people a bill of goods . . . Mr. Sokolsky is an opinionated person, and from external appearances he hasn't changed his mind in the last thirty years ... To an unregenerate isolationist, this is Truman's war, and Eisenhower is either so simple or so unprincipled that he would undertake the task of selling it to the American people. How warped...