Word: wilsonian
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...charm and humor, is not. Mr. Knox, whose youthful appearance will surprise those who have seen him only in the title role of Wilson* is superb as the editor, whether chattering at the edge of mental exhaustion, or putting all possible gusto into a reading of a post-Wilsonian editorial. Good shot: the commanding officer's patronizing offer to help his hosts extract a frozen ice tray, and the cataclysmic result...
...particular difficulties the New Dealers had in trying to defeat Representative Luce were two: 1) more Wilsonian than the opposite, she was on record as a consistent internationalist; 2) as a Representative she had such a consistent pro-labor voting record that the P.A.C. had no effective labor arguments against her, was thus confined to less effective issues...
...Dewey made clear last week that he considers foreign policy a debatable campaign issue. For the first time he gave a detailed statement of his own ideas. They proved to be more Wilsonian than Rooseveltian. And he used the occasion to turn a klieg light on the man who might be Secretary of State if Dewey became President: Manhattan Lawyer John Foster Dulles...
...subject of world organization, Welles is a Wilsonian, which puts him in the anti-Walter Lippmann camp. Against Lippmann's argument for regional groupings and alliances, Welles counterposes a revived League of Nations, a "Community of Power" with a central executive council, a centralized security and armaments commission, and international trusteeship of colonial peoples who are not ready for autonomy. In Welles's proposed provisional council of the United Nations. the big nations (Russia, the United Kingdom, China and the U.S.) would get four votes out of a total of eleven. Yet Welles would base his international organization...
...Lippmann: "Wilson's name is now so completely identified with the ideal of a universal society that the principles he laid down for attaining a universal society are generally believed to be axiomatic and immutable." Author Lippmann believes that "a universal society cannot be realized by following the Wilsonian principles...