Word: isolationized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a slumberous afternoon in which the gallery attendants glared at dozers,* the bill came to passage. The Senate voted 50-to-37 to take the neutrality out of the Neutrality Act, to arm the U.S. merchant marine, to permit U.S. ships to enter the ports of belligerents. Another noble...
The circle began in the '20s. Maxim Litvinoff, who had married a plump, middle-class Englishwoman, set out to end the isolation which the Bolshevist Revolution had imposed on Russia. He delighted and confounded Englishmen with his bluntness, his cunning, his tenacity. At the Disarmament Conference in 1927 he...
But as World War II approached, Russia withdrew into an isolation even deeper than the previous one. Maxim Litvinoff resigned from the Foreign Commissariat and his successor made the marriage of convenience with Germany. Russia began to aggress, Britain and the U.S. to object. To Russia, Britain and the U.S...
To year-around natives of the swanky resort town of Lake Geneva, Wis. "The Strangers" looked queerer and queerer. Lake Geneva enjoys a certain rural isolation but these newcomer Isolationists were a puzzle. Three of them suddenly turned up last week in headlines as witnesses before a Washington grand jury...
Near the ex-President sat the former Secretary of the Navy, newly elected Vice-President. Vag remembered when the man had first urged entry into the war; and, though Vag had agreed on that, he had sensed an ominously imperialistic note in the rantings of such violent interventionists. When Vag...