Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This figure indicates a marked rise in interventionist sentiment since last year, according to the Yale News, which conducted the poll. 21 percent of the 2,692 men who voted favored "full unrestricted military and naval participation in the war," surpassing the 6 percent who held the same view last February...
...poll shows, in a class and school breakdown, that the class of 1944 and the Law School have the greatest amount of interventionist sentiment, 80 percent in each case favoring questions one and two. The Freshmen come close behind with 77 percent, Seniors with 75 percent, and Juniors with 73 percent. In the Graduate School 67 percent also concur, whereas the Divinity School maintained its "stay-out" attitude with only 41 percent favoring further isolation...
Those editors who were too lightheartedly interventionist have apparently begun to think twice. Six weeks ago interventionist sentiment in the press (measured by James S. Twohey Associates) reached an all-time high of 84%. Then war began to look imminent. The Greer was shot at, the Kearny was hit by a torpedo, U.S. destroyers were reported hunting U-boats and dropping depth charges. In five weeks' interventionist sentiment dropped...
Hitherto press sentiment for intervention has always risen after a speech by President Roosevelt. Not so last week. The President spoke ("The shooting has started") and the destroyer Reuben James was also sunk. Interventionist sentiment in the press just held even at 64%. The 20% drop in interventionist sentiment was accompanied by a rise in isolationist sentiment from...
...test of Republican sentiment, the list of signers to Willkie's manifesto was inconclusive. As a move in the struggle to shift Republican policy away from Isolationism, it promised to be historic. Said Pundit Arthur Krock: "[Willkie] had been marching so long and obediently in the President's foreign policy column . . . that those at the head no longer kept an eye on him. . . . What, therefore, was the surprise and embarrassment of the Generalissimo and his staff when the follower dashed in front of the leader with a following of his own. . . . Mr. Willkie struck at the President...