Word: internationalist
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...Chaplin's first night in New York in September 1910, he walked around the theater district, dazzled by its lights and movement. "This is it!" he told himself. "This is where I belong!" Yet he never became a U.S. citizen. An internationalist by temperament and fame, he considered patriotism "the greatest insanity that the world has ever suffered." As the Depression gave way to World War II and the cold war, the increasingly politicized message of his films, his expressed sympathies with pacifists, communists and Soviet supporters, became suspect. It didn't help that Chaplin, a bafflingly complex and private...
...Tribune also attacked Harvard's nascent international studies programs. "Eastern Universities, always notorious in the higher education circles of this country for their internationalist sympathies, have placed themselves in the forefront of a movement to introduce regional studies to the world," wrote the Tribune reporter...
Remembering America's reversion to isolationism after World War I, he set out to involve the U.S. in postwar structures while the war was still on and the country still in an internationalist frame of mind. "Anybody who thinks that isolationism is dead in this country is crazy," he said privately. "As soon as this war is over, it may well be stronger than ever...
...People say, what we see here is to one extent, an internationalist move by the president of China," says Professor of Chinese History Peter K. Bol. "He thinks it's important to be seen at a university...
...local library in a similar ideological vise. Toulon's mayor, Jean-Marie Le Chevallier, 60, who won the Front's only parliamentary seat this month, forbade organizers of the local book fair to give a literary award to Jewish writer Marek Halter, claiming his work was too "internationalist." Demoralized and dispirited though they are, opponents of the Front's municipal governments are striking back with tracts, demonstrations and information campaigns. "To fight the National Front, you have to convince people one by one about what they're doing," says Ahmed Touati, 31, an Algerian-born former Toulon employee...