Word: isolationists
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...great debating days before Pearl Harbor, isolationist critics of President Roosevelt liked to declaim: "How would you like your own sons to go to war?" Last week all four Roosevelt sons were deep in the war on many fronts-and doing well...
Editor in Ohio. Fourteen pre-war isolationist Congressmen won renominations. For the defeat of No. 15, the loudest of them all, Cleveland newspapers could claim a big red apple...
...much." If the nation is to have a President who will lead American participation in a sensible peace, there must be a clear cut choice in 1944. The New York political situation indicates a strong possibility that both candidates of that year may be of a conservative and isolationist bent. In order to insure the selection of an internationally-minded nominee, Mr. Roosevelt must now take positive steps to strengthen his own control of his party. That effort is not only a matter of New Deal strategy, but of the gravest national importance as well. Only liberal control...
...First Farley charged that Senator Mead, a 100% backer of Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policies on his Senate voting record, was in fact an isolationist. (He dug up a 1941 speech in which earnest Senator Mead said the U.S. must not become "the tool for guaranteeing any particular status...
...Silent too was Farley's John Bennett, the forgotten man of the campaign. The only audible sounds came from Farley-and from Franklin Roosevelt, who once more took a little time out from the war to comment at a crowded press conference: "If Jim Mead's an isolationist...