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...have just read your lead article ... on Isolationist Wood. Here you have done as reprehensible a thing in your way as Lindbergh did in his. Lindbergh used anti-Jewish prejudice to try to keep us out of war; you are employing anti-Jewish prejudice as a subtle means to take us into war-by implying that the way to right Lindbergh's wrong is to follow the course opposite...
After the conscription extension had squeaked through the House last August by a vote of 203-10-202, Rayburn had insisted on a month's recess, had predicted that the members, after listening to the, folks back home, would return to Washington with less isolationist notions. Sure enough, the chastened House had then passed the second Lend-Lease appropriation...
...secret the Isolationist command-some ten Senators, some 50 House members-met in the Caucus room of the Senate Office Building one night last week, gloomily chewed the bitter cud of defeat, gloomily decided that even a Senate filibuster was out of the question. Missing was their best strategist, Montana's Burton K. Wheeler, who was out beating the bushes for some additional Isolationist recruits...
...Twohey figures tell the story of typical editorial reactions. The events which sent interventionist sentiment up, sent isolationist sentiment down and vice versa. Whenever the President took a firm stand or a firm step, sentiment for intervention and more aid to Britain rose sharply. Whenever there was talk of the closeness of war or of other unpleasant things such as low Army morale, isolationist sentiment rose...
...What's it really like over there?" Drawls the laconic airman: "Cloudy." The cinema's first reconstruction of the retreat from Dunkirk-which seems destined to become as useful in drama and story as the Battle of Waterloo-has a camera angle that is certainly non-Axis. Isolationist Senators might well call Yank pro-British propaganda. Even more obviously it is pro-box-office propaganda...