Word: isolationist
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...World War II isolationist while president at Rochester, he sent scholarly messages to Congressmen opposing any change in the Neutrality Act, opposing Lend-Lease as the road to certain U.S. involvement in the conflict. In 1940, he headed the Democrats-for-Willkie group. He became a director of a number of topflight U.S. corporations, e.g., Freeport Sulphur Co., Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway Co., Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. In 1948, he served for a year as chief of the ECA mission to The Netherlands and was made a Grand Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau by Queen Juliana...
...June with an arrangement to send Le Devoir some travelogue pieces from faraway places. He reached Japan soon after the Korean fighting began, managed to get himself accredited as a war correspondent, and launched gaily into political punditry. Hebert is a Catholic and an antiCommunist; apparently his French Canadian isolationist-pacifist sentiments led him into echoing the Communist appeasement line on Korea almost as faithfully as though he were writing for Pravda...
...editors overplaying the Korean war? Are readers losing interest in it? Last week Colonel Robert R. McCormick's unshakably isolationist Chicago Tribune seemed to think the answer to both questions was yes. On the Tribune's front page one morning, readers found two local stories (FENCE PUZZLE NO ALDERMAN CAN STRADDLE; FIND WOMEN "SMUGGLED" INTO JAIL INMATES) and eight national and international stories, but no mention of the war, except a four-line box tucked in a Washington dispatch: "South Koreans fall back a mile . . . Details on page 9." On page 9, the Trib covered the Korean fighting...
...Ottawa Journal angrily demanded: "Is this enough?" About the only groups who came out strongly against sending Canadian troops to Korea were the Union des Electeurs, a French Canadian isolationist party, and Canada's Communists...
Strange Bedfellows. Politics, as usual, made some strange bedfellows. Almost the only all-out opposition to the President's action came from the Communist and the extreme isolationist press. Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker and its West Coast echo, the People's World, attacked the "U.S. military and diplomatic establishments" for "starting" the war. The Worker, parroting broadcasts from Moscow, blandly stated that the South Koreans had done the attacking instead of the other way around, headlined...