Word: isolationists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paused in the attack just long enough to defend his Administration's preparations for war. His defense: the isolationist record of the Republicans in Congress who opposed Lend-Lease and other preparedness measures. He ridiculed Republicans who have changed their views, and said, while labor leaders applauded: "I am too old for that. I cannot talk out of both sides of my mouth at the same time...
...battle began more than two years ago, when the Senate Naval Affairs Committee's bumbling, lumbering isolationist chairman, David Ignatius Walsh of Massachusetts, inserted a no-overseas-duty amendment to the bill creating the women's reserve. (WACs have long been overseas.) Whenever Navy brass hats appeared asking for WAVES overseas, Senator Walsh demurred, even after the House passed such a bill twice. By last week not even Dave Walsh could offer any valid reason for keeping all of the 77,000 WAVES, 19,000 Women Marines, and 9,000 SPARS from completely safe spots overseas. Admiral Nimitz...
...more: he completely and final ly dissociated himself from isolationist elements in the G.O.P. And he sought to disabuse any who might think that the G.O.P., under President Dewey, would be for a soft peace. Said he: "The military defeat of Germany and Japan must be complete and crushing...
...Bennett Champ Clark, who never forgets a grudge. (His oldest grudge: in 1912 young Franklin Roosevelt, 30, helped swing the Democratic convention to Woodrow Wilson and away from the Senator's father, the late Speaker Champ Clark.) Yet Bennett Clark, campaigning for his own third term, swallowed his isolationist line and pledged himself to support Franklin Roosevelt's peace program...
Before the war he sometimes talked like a mild isolationist. Now he champions the idea of a new world peace structure in which all nations, big & little, will have a voice at a common council...