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...Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, was out of office. South Africa, which had been considered safe in the fold of the British Commonwealth (and which last year lent ?80 million in gold as a prop for Britain's sterling), had suddenly embarked on a perverse, isolationist, acutely race-conscious road that might lead to secession from the Commonwealth and to maltreatment and oppression of the country's 9,000,000 non-Europeans...
Historian Charles A. Beard, in a solemn Manhattan ceremony at the National Institute of Arts and Letters, received the Gold Medal in spite of Critic Lewis Mumford, who resigned from the Institute over it. Mumford didn't want to pass out any medals to so partisanly isolationist a historian. Official Medal-Pinner Van Wyck Brooks took pains to point out in his speech that the members were paying homage to "the qualities in his life and his work about which they agree." Besides, he said, Beard had "exposed ... the idea that historians could ever be entirely objective." Historian Beard...
Four peace-seeking Methodist readers laid a modest proposal in the lap of Colonel Robert R. McCormick's mighty, isolationist Chicago Tribune. Would the Tribune please cooperate, they wrote, in "the creation of a favorable public opinion...
...inspired and generous diplomacy. ... It will be difficult after this demonstration of international solidarity to go on repeating the old gibes about American isolationism, the old complacent references to American political immaturity. . ... In recent months the American public is rapidly qualifying for the title of the least isolationist and self-absorbed of peoples." The U.S. would have to go some to live up to that eulogy. But it was learning...
...reporter who was small enough to crawl into a cave and interview Floyd Collins. Five Detroit Free Pressmen won the prize for reporting an American Legion parade. Ambidextrous Reuben Maury earned his Pulitzer for his "power to in fluence public opinion": a self-confessed hireling, he used to write isolationist editorials for the New York Daily News, interventionist editorials for Collier...