Word: isolationists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Saved at Lunch. By 1940, as war raged in Europe, La Follette's star was waning. Like his father, he was an isolationist, and when he inveighed against lend-lease and the neutrality act, he lost votes. Franklin Roosevelt saved him from defeat in the 1940 senatorial campaign. In 1934 Roosevelt publicly called him "old friend," and then invited him to a well-publicized White House luncheon as a campaign boost. After Pearl Harbor, Young Bob supported the bipartisan foreign policy, but late in the war he put on his old isolationist hat again. The United Nations, he said...
Louis Nemzer, Research associate in the Russian Research Center, feels that should Malenkov gain power it would be much more difficult to "work out a modus vivendi" with the Russians. He called Malonkov a "primitive, crude, isolationist type," pointing out that he has rarely been outside the country and is almost completely ignorant of foreign problems. He also has a reputation for being "the most unpleasant and inaccessible" of the top Soviet leaders, according to Nemzer...
...tend to exaggerate the lily-white coverage of Britain by American newspapers when you do not mention Colonel McCormick and other isolationist papers in this country. Even papers which are not anti-British . . . emphasize how expensive those countries are for us rather than the debt we owe them for holding the line in two wars until we were ready to make our own sacrifices for the world's freedom...
Foreign Relations. Wisconsin's back-slapping Alexander Wiley, a self-described humorist, who was an ardent isolationist before Pearl Harbor, has now moved, thanks partly to his British-born bride, all the way to internationalism. He sees himself as a new Vandenberg; others see him merely as a new Wiley...
...Missouri, W. Stuart Symington ousted Republican James Kem, whose isolationist record in the Senate had been attacked by the Democrats as a national bad example. Symington, onetime St. Louis industrialist (Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co.) who has held five top U.S. Government posts in the past seven years (among them: Secretary of the Air Force, administrator of the RFC), is a close friend of Ike Eisenhower, can be expected to cooperate with the new President...