Word: isolationists
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...offended the New England sense of fairness by insinuating that Ike is a captive of the Administration and could not campaign against it. Many an observer also concluded that his speeches about Ike were a mistake in another way: they aroused the Eisenhower supporters to charge that Taft is "isolationist." The voters of New Hampshire are not isolationist...
...become spokesman for a particular group. Some passages in his later speeches were ambiguous and inconsistent with his own basic line of thought and action. These ambiguities, plus the distortion of MacArthur by his friends of the Hearst and McCormick press, led some to conclude that MacArthur was an isolationist; others, that he was an imperialist. Both tags were absurd, yet the figure of MacArthur in U.S. life was neither as clear nor as large in December as it had been in April...
...which was once called isolationist, this week closed its books on history's greatest single act of international generosity: the Marshall Plan. In 45 months, ECA spent $12 billion-the equivalent of $80 apiece for every man, woman & child in the U.S.-to heal Europe's war wounds, to start up factories, and to rescue from fear, apathy and poverty millions of Europeans and Asians. Biggest beneficiaries: Britain, $2.8 billion,* France $2.3 billion, Germany and Italy $1.3 billion each. Tiny Holland-with an even $1 billion - got more than the whole of Asia...
Great skill will be needed if the Iranians are to tread this isolationist path, and Mossadegh, Brinton thinks, is not the man to do the treading--his head is likely to roll long before...
...Cabot Lodge was "the boy wonder." Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg took him under his wing (Vandenberg had known his grandfather, and admired the elder Lodge's biography of Alexander Hamilton as the best, up to the time Vandenberg wrote his own). Like Vandenberg, Lodge was labeled an isolationist, but he favored military preparedness, and called for conscription before President Roosevelt did. Domestically, his record was liberal, with a shrewd eye on his constituents. He was one of two Republicans to vote for the Wages and Hours Bill, and he defended the Wagner Act. He got a bill passed...