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England, represented especially by Churchill and Eden, is genuinely anxious for a strong world government, with the United States closely integrated. But their misjudged fear of isolationist sentiment here has forced the halfway proposals so far made he feels. That sentiment, of course, is still unfortunately strong both in the country at large and in Congress, but recent measures such as the Hatch and Gillette bills show a strong will for decisive steps to be taken...
Three of the sponsors-Senators Hill, Hatch and Ball-have been stanch supporters of Administration foreign policy. For Senator Burton, who often voted with the Republican Isolationist bloc before Pearl Harbor, the resolution showed a courageous change of mind. The sponsors hoped to win over other onetime Isolationists...
...isolationist opposition ran strong. The House of Morgan offered to float a French loan in 1914-Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan turned the idea down cold. By 1915, as the gold stocks of the Allies ran low, the Administration changed heart: Robert Lansing replaced Bryan, and the Morgan firm floated a $500,000,000 loan for both France and Britain, an act roughly corresponding to the first Lend-Lease aid in this...
Madame Luce's--"globaloney" speech, together with Representative Joseph Martin's remarks that "America must rule the air," had created great consternation in Britain. Similarly isolationist forces abroad warned of America's intentions and bitterly attacked her policy of global supremacy as a 1943 version of "manifest destiny"; Lord Londonderry among others urged strong counter-measures. Secretary Knox's plea for American naval bases all over the world was equally unfortunate. Alarm in the New Zealand House of Representatives over such bases forced Prime Minister Fraser to declare formally that he believed President Roosevelt "incapable of a mean action...
...aviator at a dinner party, heard his views on airpower, his recent European experiences, offered to put him on the air. Lindbergh was a national sensation. Lewis was "delighted. . . . It meant a scoop for a young guy." He has since objected mightily to being called an isolationist, but is proud of his record as a non-interventionist: "I was just yelling for a little more time, and I got it." Some of his critics think they hear echoes of this attitude of mind in Lewis' recent outcry against the "fundamental unsoundness" of canned-goods rationing ("Nothing will...