Word: wilsonian
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...keeping with his engineer's temperament, Hoover's book is essentially a documentation, a blueprint of the Wilsonian ordeal. He shows in detail how Wilson captured the imagination of a war-shocked world with the promise of a just peace and a League of Nations to tidy up the international madhouse. He then shows how Old World hatreds and greeds, together with home-grown suspicions, turned Wilson's dream into a patchwork of drab compromise...
...Winston Churchill once wrote: "If Mr. Wilson had been either simply an idealist or a caucus politician, he might have succeeded. His attempt to run the two in double harness was the cause of his undoing." And Georges Clemenceau, the old French tiger whose claws helped to shred the Wilsonian dream, snarled: "He acted to the very best of his abilities in circumstances the origins of which had escaped him and whose ulterior developments lay beyond...
...Americans today would be willing to settle for such a fatalistic policy. Yet the Kennan volume may suggest that most of what has passed for U.S. "policy" toward Communism in recent decades has in fact been the Wilsonian do-nothing attitude disguised in rhetoric. In any case, the reader may well feel that the last and best word on 1917 was spoken by Philip Jordan, the old Negro valet of Ambassador David Francis, whom no one asked for an opinion. Phil Jordan wrote home to Mrs. Francis: "It is something awful...
...year 1928 was election year, and undergraduate interest in the coming battle ran high. Five hundred student delegates attended a mock Democratic convention in May, with the keynote on a return to Wilsonian ideals and a movement away from government by and for monopolies...
...Lawrence, who calls himself a "conservative liberal," is a man of deep, if contradictory, convictions. He has backed the Republican presidential candidate every year since he voted for Hoover in 1932 (on the ground that it was "dangerous to change parties in mid-Depression"); yet he is a devout Wilsonian ("Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom principles were the major philosophical stamp on my thought") and a registered Democrat in Fairfax County, Va., where he lives. He is a lifelong internationalist, a staunch supporter of the League of Nations and the U.N., has backed the Marshall Plan and the Truman...