Word: isolationist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Extreme isolationist view is that U. S. interests in China (with only two-thirds the value of the U. S. domestic barber business) and U. S. resources in the Philippines (gold, iron, chromite, manganese, tobacco, hemp, timber, sugar) are not worth holding at the risk of conflict; that the U. S. should withdraw to the Panama-Hawaii-Alaska front, strengthen defenses there...
...land that paid its war debts, and carried on a brisk trade with the United States. Now it is being ruthlessly destroyed. The effect over here on the large body of Scandinavians in the Northwestern States will not be insignificant. Thus far they have meant a great bloc of isolationist sentiment in Congress, but their enthusiasm to steer clear of the European turmoil may be dimmed by the present tragedy of a nation...
Last week to many a U. S. citizen he was a bum.* To a pack of U. S. newspaper pundits, he was worse than that: they thought they saw in his second Isolationist speech (TIME, Oct. 23) the spoor of a Nazi fox. Dorothy Thompson and Walter Lippmann read dread things between the naïve Lindbergh lines. Heywood Broun thought the speech "one of the most militaristic" ever made by an American. To Columnist Hugh S. Johnson he was "Poor Lindy" who had "stepped from his hero's niche...
...three Representatives interested in Mr. Anderson's story, one was an Isolationist. Ammunition for House debate in coming weeks was what they furnished. Embarrassment to the Donaldson Atlantic Line (owner of the Athenia) was what they caused. Said Donaldson in Glasgow: "Tommyrot and absolute nonsense...
WASHINGTON--Big guns of the Senate's isolationist bloc opened a zero-hour attack on the Administration's Neutrality Revision Bill tonight as leaders of both factions forecast a final vote in the Upper House this week...