Word: isolationists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reality. Early this week they and the U. S. got a conclusive tip-off that the Isolationist cause in the Great Debate was now becoming more & more a desperate attempt to stall off inevitable defeat. Michigan's Vandenberg said he was drafting a version of the Hoover-Lindbergh plan as a substitute for the arms embargo if the embargo were beaten. But Pittman was now anxious to shut off futile chitchat, limit debate, get on to perfecting and passing the bill. To this end Pittman moved to speed the legislation by scrapping the controversial go-day credit provision, substituting...
...from the less controversial title-and-carry provisions. Although New Hampshire's Charles Tobey had proposed this split in a sincere desire to get U. S. shipping immediately legislated out of combat areas abroad, the effect would have been to put the weight of debate solely on the Isolationist issue: sale of arms to belligerents...
Shoes. Now into action came three Isolationists by inheritance, standing in the shoes of Isolationist Fathers: La Follette, Clark and Lodge. Day after day the Isolationists took the floor to bellow steadily all afternoon. The galleries were more than half empty; the press doodled or played word-puzzles in the press gallery. Shockproof to the familiar roar of the Isolationists' big guns, the reporters sat up and took notice only when two new cannoneers appeared: homespun, silent William John Bulow of South Dakota, glib, emotional Dennis Chavez of New Mexico...
...Isolationist Senators were whetting their knives for his "Morgan Board." By disbanding it, minimizing its report, and chiding its sponsor, Louis Johnson, the President in time's nick snatched a deadly weapon from his foes in the Senate. About all they had left to hit him with then was the reasonable supposition that Big Steel's Stettinius will be back on the pre-war scene in Washington at some more politic time...
...Justice Minister Ernest Lapointe declared this an "unprovoked challenge." Most of Quebec's 3,500,000 French-Canadians bitterly opposed conscription in World War I, but the Government, having promised that there would be no conscription this time, thought it had a good chance of ousting the Isolationist Duplessis Government, of bringing Canada greater unity than ever before...