Word: isolationists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same time that he made this pronouncement, Monroe served notice that the U.S. had become a power with which European nations would have to reckon, and extended U.S. interest over the whole of the Western Hemisphere. One of the modern misconceptions of history is that the Monroe Doctrine was isolationist. The Monroe Doctrine was the first big step in an expanding foreign policy, which continued to expand under succeeding Presidents and Secretaries of State...
Knutson was back at his old isolationist stand. He snorted: "Maybe ... we are able to help the world because we are taking everything away from our own people and giving it to someone else." No matter what U.S. foreign commitments might be, he was determined to get a 20% cut in income taxes, arguing: "If we don't get it now, we never will...
Harry Truman prepared to lay the whole problem of foreign relations before the U.S. people this week in a speech at Waco, Tex. The winds of history were blowing up. Not even the most economy-minded Congressman or the most isolationist plain citizen could escape their breath...
...Hatchetmen. Over the wind sounded the hoofbeats of Republican hatchetmen: New Hampshire's Styles Bridges; Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry, the Republican whip, the ex-undertaker who wants to bury the New Deal; Illinois' C. Wayland ("Curly") Brooks, the old isolationist; Maine's Owen Brewster, who is itching to investigate wartime defense contracts. They smote Lilienthal as a New Dealer, as dictatorial, as unfit for such a high position. They were not the responsible Republican leadership. But Bob Taft, who is the real and responsible G.O.P. leader, didn't say no to the hatchetmen...
...first, like many French Canadians, Rodrigue Villeneuve was a nationalist and isolationist. Yet when war came, Cardinal Villeneuve shed his isolationism, urged French Canadians, foes of conscription and overseas service, to register for the draft and to enlist. He said in 1941 : "We are legally at war and we are bound to fight. . . . You cannot fight this war by condensing the horizon to this continent...