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...Europe is in a crucial state of hesitation. U.S. citizens last week were suddenly voicing the distressed arguments of isolationism, provoked in part by the licking they were taking in Korea, but also by Western Europe's apparent paralysis of will. Acheson and the Administration could answer the isolationist arguments, and did, but they could not get around the fact of Western Europe's anguished resignation...
...exactly expressed my sentiments," said Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry, G.O.P. floor leader in the Senate. "I agree with many of the general principles he states," said Ohio's Bob Taft, now a prime molder of G.O.P. foreign policy in the Senate. Indiana's 100% Isolationist Homer Capehart rejoiced: "I agree with Mr. Hoover 100%." "The people are with him," proclaimed Colonel McCormick's Chicago Tribune. (Its enthusiasm barely exceeded that of the Communist Party's Daily Worker, which appreciatively turned over its big headline type to Hoover's speech...
...voice of the isolationist-give up one's allies, draw back into the Western Hemisphere, spend mainly to make the U.S. strong-was heard again in the land last week. It was neither "the main tide . . . running" nor the intuitive common sense of "the great mass of the people," as Pundit Walter Lippmann implied. But there was indeed "subterranean muttering," as the Alsop Brothers reported. And in a speech by Joseph Patrick Kennedy, millionaire financier and onetime U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, the mutterings surfaced and were clearly heard. If Kennedy's words...
...Interventionist Douglas* implying that he might become an isolationist? "No, I am not saying that, but I'm saying that we cannot afford to defend people who will not either defend the peace of the world, or defend themselves...