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Parker's company is based in Janesville, Wis., a thriving small town (pop. 22,992) in the Chicago Tribune's isolationist heartland. Last week, Parker decided that it was about time his 2,300 employees and the other citizens of Janesville learned how important foreign trade is to them. In an ad in the Janesville Gazette, Parker announced that 40% of the Sept. 19 weekly payroll (total: $125,000) would be paid in Mexican pesos. Although Mexico represents only one-fourteenth of the company's foreign business, he chose pesos because they were easily obtained and stable...
...celebrated Missouri mule, isolationist by temperament, has been having some rude shocks, is due for more. Mules sent to Mexico as replacements for oxen killed in the campaign against aftosa (foot-&-mouth disease) have been causing trouble because they were too pampered...
...David Ignatius Walsh, 74, hulking Massachusetts politician, longtime favorite of Boston Irish-Catholic Democrats, who kept him in the U.S. Senate for 26 years, twice elected him Governor; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Boston. A violent Anglophobe (he was known to Capitol Hill wags as "Ireland's Senator"), Isolationist Walsh finally lost his Senate seat in 1946 to Henry Cabot Lodge...
...conference was stalled. It was stalled because of reports from the U.S. Congress. Largely due to the influence of Arthur Vandenberg late last winter, Congress had let the State Department go ahead with its reciprocal trade program. But even as Clayton arrived in Washington, Minnesota's irreconcilable Isolationist Harold Knutson warned: Congress will promptly raise any tariff the State Department lowers if it damages "a vital industry." As chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, Knutson set up a subcommittee* to keep the watch on the tariff wall...
This Yankee from Olympus had learned a great deal since the bad old isolationist days. But he, and thousands of other eager new Truman Doctrinaires, still had to learn that Britain was not Guam. Most Americans took Britain's role as a U.S. ally for granted. If the chips ever went down, Britain could scarcely play any other role. And there was still a vast reservoir of British good will toward the U.S.-as a British miner's wife illustrated last week by soundly bussing U.S. Ambassador Douglas.* Nevertheless, Britain was a resentful and reluctant ally...