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...decently human and really hardheaded if we exchange our post-war surplus for goods, for peace and for improving the standards of living of so-called backward peoples. We can get more for our surplus production in this way than by any high-tariff, penny-pinching, isolationist policies which hide under the cloak of 100% Americanism...
Hoover's design for future peace moved him a long step from the isolationist thinking that permeated his own party before Pearl Harbor. Last spring he had made a clean break, lined up for U.S. world participation in his book The Problems of a Lasting Peace, jointly written with Diplomat Hugh Gibson (TIME, July 6). Last week, in his speech before the Chicago Executives Club, he was substantially in agreement with the broad world program of men like Sumner Welles, Henry Wallace, Anthony Eden...
...ever been called upon to appropriate $141 billion for war ($222 billion since mid-1940). Congress did, the while it filibustered over the right of Southern States to charge a man $1 to vote. Congress voted a Navy big enough to rule the seven seas; before Pearl Harbor its isolationist horsemen almost rode into defeat the President's request to put cannon on merchant ships. Suspicious of U.S. allies, Congressmen haggled over Lend-Lease; yet last week they could see the magnificent results of that policy...
...looked as if Wendell Willkie had triumphed over the No. 1 political rule that you can't beat Somebody with Nobody. He was dead set against the isolationist Chicago Tribune's candidate, Werner W. Schroeder, as chairman of the Republican National Committee, but he espoused no candidate of his own. The result was that when the Committee gathered in St. Louis it permitted Somebody in the person of Mr. Schroeder to withdraw gracefully after two ballots, then proceeded by acclamation to name Nobody in the person of Harrison Earl Spangler of Iowa...
...harmony which he is supposed to stand for will be, at best, ersatz. For Mr. Spangler knew, as Willkie knew and as the Chicago Tribune knew, that no mere middle-course champion of compromise could ever span the gap within the party: between the Willkie wing and the extreme isolationist symbolized by Schroeder and Colonel McCormick's Tribune...