Word: isolationized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Churchill's plan may harmonize Europe, but it cannot pacify the world. A permanent peace cannot exist as long as they are any groups, no matter how large, between which friction can arise. A United States of Europe would only force this country back to the isolation of the western...
Stressing the fact that "there is no longer such a thing as isolation," Perry developed his post-war plans along a "developed gradualism" instead of the "all-at-once" versus the "creeper-up" schools of peace ideas.
When Wendell Willkie ran across President McKinley's Buffalo statement that "isolation is no longer possible" (TIME, Feb. 22), he might have proceeded a trifle further before giving Mr. McKinley the phony buildup as an internationally minded statesman.
When McKinley attacked "isolation," he spoke as an expansionist, admittedly a certain breed of internationalist. But the motives for his internationalism-"McKinleyism," as Edward Atkinson called it-were those of high-pressure minorities inspired by self-interest. McKinley's reciprocity was a weapon of economic conquest, a give-&-receive...
Siege, filmed by 22 cameramen in the first 14 of the city's 17 months of isolation, concentrates on life inside the city. The city's normal traffic slows to a halt as gas and power run out and heavy snows fall; Leningrad becomes a ghostly metropolis without...