Word: isolationists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plan-and Sir Anthony Eden's prompt hints that Britain, too, planned to "go nuclear"-clearly foreshadowed a reduction in the number of Anglo-American troops stationed in West Germany, possibly even-in the excitable conclusion-jumping of the German press (and the New York Times)-a neo-isolationist U.S. retreat to "Fortress America." Adenauer had argued that conscription was necessary to raise the twelve divisions West Germany had promised NATO. Then Dulles himself conceded in a press conference that, as part of a general shift away from conventional military forces. NATO might no longer need so many German...
...leading capitalist-enterprise republic has to offer? Without a real world economic plan, and faced by a fast-moving Communist economic offensive, the Administration had dissipated its foreign-aid advantage, to the distress of staunch foreign-aid friends in both parties-and to the delight of ancient isolationist enemies in both parties...
Democrats and Republicans alike ganged up on the bill and their leaders' amendment, as many an isolationist scuttled into daylight for the first time in years to take advantage of the new climate. Massachusetts Republican Donald Nicholson said he was for "spending money for our own defense without taking care of these foreigners." Louisiana's Democratic Representative George Long (Huey's brother) described foreign aid as "the greatest fraud since money became a medium of exchange." Georgia's Democratic Representative Iris Blitch won an ovation as she promised: "I will vote for every amendment...
When the voting started, Wiley barely led the field of six on jthe first ballot. By the second, he had fallen behind Representative Glenn R. Davis, 41, a toothpaste-smile isolationist, who had been sweet-talked into running and promised a $150,000 campaign fund. When the third ballot started, Wiley did not even wait for the result. With tears in his eyes, he and his British-born wife made their way quietly through the crowd and out the door. For Alex Wiley, it was a bitter pill -administered on his 72nd birthday...
...base is a shared belief in the pursuit of justice-everywhere. The occasion of Eden's visit is a time to remember how much idealism has influenced the course of British policy even in the Empire's supposedly cynical past, and how fleeting and superficial was the isolationist phase of U.S. history...