Word: isolationized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The voice of isolation last week sounded as if it were being rapidly drowned out by a growing chorus of U.S. determination to face Naziism and beat it. Some voices in the chorus:
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master-that's all." Last week the big debate went on, but these two small books cut through the stale, stalled arguments of isolation...
It is by such quotations that Earle seeks to show present day isolationists that their arguments are without basis from the standpoint of American history. In a brief but forceful review of our diplomatic and political treatment of European affairs, he demonstrates how we have been dependent on four factors...
At 21 he wrote a play in French, Les Pariahs, which ran 100 nights at the Theatre Moliere in Paris. Then he turned to diplomacy and began his smooth ascent in the Foreign Office.* In 1920 he became private secretary to mammoth, crusty Foreign Secretary Lord Curzon. In 1928 he...
In this interchange, some observers thought they saw a crack in Eire's isolation. Though shrewd onetime Schoolmaster Eamon de Valera has turned down all Britain's offers for bases in Eire, they thought he might be persuaded to horse-trade with the friendly U.S.