Word: worldism
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Isolationism is a word not heard much any more in the U.S. What has replaced it, after the first enthusiasm of one-worldism, is a blend of internationalism and nationalism, a viewpoint that accepts the permanent entanglements with other nations as necessary and even desirable, but insists on upholding the sovereignty and interests of the U.S. In his performance at the U.N., Cabot Lodge filled that bill well. While unmistakably dedicated to the U.N. idea, he never left any doubt that he was there as the spokesman for the U.S. and the guardian of its interests...
...envisioned the brotherhood of man in a single universal state to which, in Toynbee's view, the earlier Hellenes had been so suicidally blind. In carving out his empire, he directed 80 of his highest-ranking officers to marry Persian women. But the experiment in marital one-worldism was shortlived. The Hellenic world continued to writhe in violent separatist agonies until Rome's Augustan peace was imposed upon...
Dennis objected to "one-worldism" on the grounds that its proponents fail to consider its implications. "How would small businessmen and labor leaders like an influx of the colored world and of cheap labor?" he stated...
...luncheon given by Chicago Tribune Publisher Robert R. ("Bertie") McCormick, a new group, firm in their old belief that foreign entanglements are dangerous, banded themselves into "For America," an outfit which will "combat super-internationalism, one-worldism and Communism in America." Cochairmen: General Robert E. Wood, retired board chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co. and onetime head of America First; Clarence E. Manion, ex-dean of Notre Dame's law school, whose resignation as chairman of the President's Commission on Intergovernmental Relations was forced after he began ballyhooing the Bricker Amendment (TIME, Feb. 8). Among other For Americans...
...slanted reporting of Mr. Bagdikian came with the story's conclusion. Facts Forum is spreading "fear [and] suspicion" ... It is also "divisive." This, of course, is the routine jargon of the left-liberals to describe anyone or any organization that fights Communism, collectivism or blind one-worldism...