Word: isolationists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President here & now should renounce a third term. So said Alfred M. Landon last fortnight; so said Michigan's isolationist, Republican Senator Vandenberg last week. "I heartily agree with the President that politics should be adjourned," Mr. Landon had said. "But I submit that he himself should make the first move in that direction by removing the biggest stumbling block of all ... namely, the third term issue...
Although she used fighting words last week, Eleanor Roosevelt used to be considered a pacifist. Last February, during the Isolationist storm over Franklin Roosevelt's sanction of warplane sales to France, she began to edge out of her corner. "Germany," she wrote, "is geared to produce a thousand planes a month; France to produce one hundred planes a month. . . . Do our sympathies lie with the other democracies, or do they lie with the totalitarian states...
...Pittman believed that the mere question of repeal of the arms embargo was but a minor phase of the problem of national security. But as a practical man he knew how thunderous a drum-roll his Isolationist foes could beat up over that single issue. He set himself to smash their drumheads, roll the drum himself...
Senator Pittman's Isolationist foes were annoyed at the isolationism of the Pittman bill. But they found one good target-the fact that the bill was credit-and-carry, not cash-and-carry. They shouted that this would modify the Johnson Act, one of the most sacred of U. S. cows, which bars loans to any government still in default on its World War I debts. But Key Pittman, a wily strategist, knew that in winning a political fight you must ask for twice what you can get, then compromise for half (TIME, Oct. 2); and that the loser...
WASHINGTON--Sen. Key Pittman, D., Nev., leader of President Roosevelt's fight to repeal the Arms Embargo section of the Neutrality Act, today angrily challenged his isolationist fees to add cotton, oil and American-mined metals to the embargo list to prove their sincerity...