Word: isolationists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since Pearl Harbor, Wisconsin's keen, bouncy Senator Robert Marion La Follette Jr., a prewar isolationist, has maintained an almost-unbroken silence on foreign affairs. Last week, at the convention of his own Progressive Party, he spoke. War has not changed Bob La Follette very much. Said...
...that Hitler, too, was once a silly-looking seditionist who used his trial as a forum for spreading propaganda and winning new converts. The Chicago Tribune, favorite organ of most of the defendants, wrote indulgently of the "crackpots" who were the victims of a New Deal "smear campaign" against isolationist Congressmen...
...General's Views. One question on which the Miller letters threw no light was whether General MacArthur is an isolationist. This question was of serious concern since much of his support has come from such extreme isolationists as Colonel Robert R. McCormick.† Then last week Manhattan Lawyer Henry Breckenridge, onetime Democrat and onetime close friend of Charles A. Lindbergh, shed light on this issue. In a letter to the Herald Tribune, he quoted a telegram General MacArthur sent from Manila in 1940 to William Allen White's Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies. Said General...
Wisconsin disagreed - with both. The state that had done the voting seemed to know what it had done, and why. The carefully edited Milwaukee Journal -which had backed Willkie - now agreed with the result, and spoke up for all Wisconsin, "We're not isolationist." What had happened was not a simple thing to see in all the jungle of possible meanings. Wisconsin had clearly voted no confidence in global good will and a foreign policy of generalities. They had voted against the "crusade" kind of internationalism - against a crusade which had never been clearly defined, which was hopelessly confused...
...home, Mr. King's determined effort to shape the new world satisfies an emergent, self-confident Canada's sovereign aims. His position squares with 1) Canada's claims to a seat on future Pan American councils, 2) the fierce intranationalism of ardently isolationist French Canada, which has always supported Mr. King's noncommittal policy toward the Commonwealth. But the Prime Minister has a ticklish question to answer: Does his policy square with the tide of Commonwealth opinion running strongly in Britain and the other Dominions? Balance for Britain? In Britain, no less than in Canada, there...