Word: isolationists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...melirfternationalists for insisting that the Mackinac Charter pledge itself not to give away American sovereignty. When the President took the same stand, was he isolationist? In hot and heavy debate, internationalists had insisted that "sovereignty" was a wicked, isolationist word. Now the Rooseveltians would have to mix it in with the rest of their omnibus platform...
...F.D.R., Isolationist. The Chicago Tribune's Arthur Sears Henning, who should know an isolationist when he sees one, wrote an account which was headlined: INTERNATIONAL IDEA SHELVED BY ROOSEVELT SENATORS SEE PEACE PLAN...
...ISOLATIONIST." Editorially, the Tribune thought the idea was fine-but sturdily refused to believe him. Said the Tribune: "The President's characteristic maneuver before elections is to announce a policy in accord with the opposition's views." Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Democrat & isolationist, observed, with almost diabolical satisfaction, that the President's plan did not go as far on the internationalist side as the Republican's Mackinac Charter...
Those who knew their Canadian history could hardly believe their ears: Henri Bourassa advised French Canadians, when there was no candidate for the isolationist Bloc Populaire, to vote for the socialist C.C.F. On second thought, Canadians realized that the advice was not so surprising after all. Henri Bourassa simply believed that the C.C.F. was likely to be more nationalistic than other parties opposing the Bloc, acted accordingly...
Oregon Republicans rejected Senator Rufus Holman last week, and as a result the Republican Party looked a bit brighter all over the U.S. For bumbling Rufus Holman, 66, was an isolationist, a party hack, a reactionary, a labor baiter. His conqueror, making his first try for political office, was Wayne Lyman Morse, young (43), an internationalist, for two years the most effective member of Franklin Roosevelt's War Labor Board...