Word: isolationist
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...jostled out the Era, of Good Manners. Austin thought the League of Nations doomed because it leaned on self-discipline and "the higher ethics" instead of enforcement power. In 1937 he called for a U.S. alliance with the League to impose sanctions against Japan. A year later he told isolationist Chicago: "Isolationism is impossible. We are inextricably involved in the affairs of the world...
...principal speakers of the evening will be Senator Paul H. Douglas and Benjamin V. Cohen. Douglas has been hailed as the leader of the anti-isolationist party in Congress, while Cohen is U.S. delegate to the United Nations...
...Bargain-Counter Security. While Douglas labored, the Senate debate continued. "If the members of Congress have a shred of courage and patriotism left," said Indiana's Isolationist William E. Jenner, "they will lay down an ultimatum to the President demanding either a declaration of war or the bringing back of American G.I.s to home shores." Cried Fellow Isolationist George Malone of Nevada: "We should withdraw General Eisenhower from his military headquarters in Europe...
Tokyo had a good point. The Times-Herald had made no attempt to check the statements in the letter, given Bazy Miller by her old friend and fellow isolationist, Nevada's Senator George W. Malone, who had received it in the mail...
...less definite statement, the Young Republicans asserted that the Taft-Hoover proposals are "sincere, military in nature, and not isolationist...