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Coalition for a New Foreign and Military Policy: Also in D.C., brings together 40 different national groups from the National Council of Churches and the ADA to the Longshoremen's union, to push for a peaceful, non-interventionist, humanitarian and open foreign policy...
Pusey's new book records the changes that took place in a clear, readable, if un-illuminating, fashion. Factual in content and very general in tone, American Higher Education 1945-1970 contains little with which one can take issue. Displaying the same aloof, non-interventionist style which characterized his tenure at Harvard, Pusey takes refuge in irrefutable statements or vague and equivocal conclusions. Every controversy discussed has two sides whose respective merits are duly presented but seldom weighed. The book is a tribute to the achievements won by higher education, rather than a critical study of education during this period...
...held a faith in non-interventionism rooted in the Midwestern Progressive tradition--but while Nye hitched his star to that of the America First movement and became one of the committee's leading attractions, the alliance was one of convenience, as the America First rank and file represented a political perspective profoundly different from that of Senator Nye. Nor is this categorization of American isolationism as a phenomenon of the Right made in ignorance of the consistent position of Norman Thomas and the Socialist Party during that time, or of the non-interventionist programs of various other factions...
...position in the Middle East, however, is surprisingly inconsistent with his non-interventionist beliefs. Expounding on his pro-Israel views in the interview McGovern said, "Israel is not a military dictatorship--it is not oppressing people. We have a special commitment to Israel in that we helped bring it into being. If she is unable to defend herself, we should give...
...Non-interventionist sentiment was widespread at Harvard. One poll found 95 per cent of students against immediate U.S. entry into the war, and 78 per cent against intervention even in the event of the defeat of England and France...