Word: isolationists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What had happened to Harold Stassen in the Nebraska primary? He had invaded the state, asked Nebraska Republicans to repudiate old-line, isolationist Senator Hugh Butler, and give the G.O.P. senatorial nomination to liberal Governor Dwight Griswold. The result: a landslide for Butler. Had presidential aspirant Stassen dived under a steamroller or just got his finger caught in a wringer...
...Stassen's backers and many another G.O.P. liberal insisted that their boy was hardly scratched. Butler, they argued, had a vast, statewide organization, was backed by all top party leaders, had had a great edge on Griswold from the beginning. Also Butler claimed he was not really an isolationist...
...been rebuffed for intruding in a state not his own, but he had not yet been repudiated as a national candidate. That test would come in the July 8 Minnesota primary, when Stassen's protegé, Governor Edward Thye, runs for the G.O.P. senatorial nomination against old, isolationist Henrik Shipstead...
Ever since Munich Senator Austin had been a valiant anti-isolationist. He had risked political extinction and the taunts of many a Republican colleague by fighting for a compulsory military training bill in 1940. When other Senators argued that Lend-Lease would surely lead the U.S. to war, Warren Austin replied: "There are many things worse than war. A world enslaved by Hitler is much worse than war; it is worse than death. And a country whose boys will not go out and fight to save Christianity and the principles of freedom-well, you won't find such boys...
Politically, they were often farther apart than Chicago and New York. While Bertie McCormick loosed isolationist and reactionary thunderbolts from his Midwestern stronghold, Joe Patterson won a reputation as a liberal (liberals were also isolationists then...