Word: isolationist
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...Show-Me's. Taft later made himself clearer (see below) and added: "Only an idiot would be an isolationist today." The fact was, a few hard-shelled America-Only candidates had got elected, most notably Everett Dirksen of Illinois. But more than foreign aid was at issue in Dirksen's victory. And elsewhere, Republican and Democratic internationalists were back in new strength. Michigan's ailing Arthur Vandenberg expected to be back on the Senate floor in January. New Hampshire's Tobey, Vermont's George Aiken, Oregon's Wayne Morse and Wisconsin's Alexander...
Clearly, that old bogey the isolationist had gotten no mandate. Much of the confusion stemmed from a misunderstanding of McCarthyism, a made-in-America product fashioned out of wild charges and genuine fears. It could be, and was, used by politicians who wanted to cut the heart out of U.S. policy. But it was also invoked by Republicans whose criticism of the State Department was not that it was doing too much in Europe, but that it had not done enough in Asia. Maryland's John Marshall Butler, who had sensationally defeated McCarthy's archfoe, Millard Tydings, favored...
Speaking in Kirkland House on the future of Democratic and Republican parties, the two Government instructors also said that a few "neo-isolationist" Republicans and Democrats might endanger Administration foreign policy...
...Isolationist As They Came...
Dirksen is more of an isolationist than Ohio's Bricker, and is backed by the same group of Republicans that sent C. Wayland Brooks to the Senate in 1942. He will oppose the President on all issues of foreign and domestic policy. Since the Republicans are within two of controlling the upper house of Congress, our foreign programs particularly aid to Europe can now be effectively opposed. The South's twelve-man contribution to the Democratic side of the Senate will join the GOP to try and defeat everything from the Marshall Plan to Point Four. Republicans can, of course...