Word: isolationists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First casualty was Isolationist Johnson, against whom bellicose Dorothy Thompson, a fellow NBC broadcaster, launched a Blitzkrieg in her newspaper column (see p. 59). Hugh Johnson, letting go a Parthian shot at Miss Thompson* in his own column, made it clear that he was quitting the field because he could not handle both his column and his air assignment...
...movies were not an important U. S. export, and the U. S. cinema industry was as isolationist as the rest of the nation. World War II found both the U. S. and its cinema industry in a different frame of mind. Though U. S. cinemagnates have gesticulated for months about the necessity for putting their $2,000,000,000 investment on a war basis, the effect of war on shellshocked Hollywood last week was an incalculable crossfire of fears, dangers, hopes...
...might have to give Hitler time to answer her: "It was our belief that Miss Thompson was expressing some personal opinions, and it does not seem . . . in view of the N. A. B. code, that anything but reportorial matter would be in the public interest." Next day the isolationist New York Daily News, while not contesting Miss Thompson's right to be heard on the radio, commented testily: "We cannot help wishing that Dorothy Thompson's son, now about 10, were about 19 instead. If that were the case [she] might perhaps be somewhat less hysterical...
Editorials in most cases reflected the policies of the papers, their geographical position and the bias of their publishers. The Chicago Tribune was isolationist, warned the country not to forget its last war lesson in "false friendship, broken faith, entrapment, disparagement and repudiation. " So were the Philadelphia Record the Detroit News ("It's the same old war! We got crossed up on it once. Once is enough."), and most of the Western papers. The Washington Star thought the U. S. "should support the French and the British to the extent envisioned in President Roosevelt's original proposal...
...President cold on Neutrality last fortnight than Prime Minister Chamberlain announced Britain's appeasing recognition of the "special requirements" of Japan's armies in China. This seeming default by the greatest of the Democracies which Mr. Roosevelt wanted to support enabled California's white-crested, Isolationist Senator Hiram Johnson to crow...