Word: isolationism
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Dead was Isolation in its old, blunted sense of separation from Europe and Europe's world. Aborning was a new and sensitive Isolation, a conscious turning inward for the strength and means to stand in and against the world of Hitler.
Nor were they stopped when professional politicos pointed out the obstacles: that Wendell Willkie was a businessman and, even more sinister, a utilities executive; that he had been a registered Democrat and had voted for Franklin Roosevelt in 1932; that his office was only a block from Wall Street; that...
Colonel Lindbergh's reported disapproval of the fact that Americans "have attempted to interfere with the internal affairs of Europe" is again proof that his desire for personal isolation is transferred to his desire for national isolation. . . .
The U. S. has followed a path similar to the Colonel. It raised itself from obscurity by its energy, ability and strength. It became, with the close of the last century, a dominant figure in the world. Many unpleasant things came at the same time-lack of isolation being the...
Yet, when Colonel Lindbergh uses the prestige of his fame to speak for national isolation, he is doing as an individual exactly what he is condemning the country for doing as a nation. America is using its prestige, its strength, and its potential force to condemn international gangsterism. Colonel Lindbergh...