Word: isolationists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deal-hating Pundit David Lawrence last week revealed what he fears: Franklin Roosevelt will win Term IV by a "substantial" electoral majority. The Lawrence logic: "The isolationist wing of the Republican Party is daily growing bolder and bolder. Unless checked in the next six months, [it] will virtually hand the election to Mr. Roosevelt on a plat...
...varied. He has been married five times, sired four children, kissed the late Jean Harlow on the Capitol steps, and is the only U.S. Senator to shoot an enraged bull walrus at 20 feet. For ten years he has been a labor-baiting, immigrant-hating demagogue, an implacable isolationist with Fascist trimmings and Fascist friends. U.S. Fascist opinion of him (as expressed by Fascist Lawrence Dennis): "No brains." This week Senator Reynolds announced he would not run for re-election next year. No tears fell...
Long before Pearl Harbor, Lausche was interventionist. His election in 1941 was virtually a Cleveland referendum on the war; and he soundly trounced rabid isolationist Congressman Martin Sweeney. Cleveland, under Lausche, has feared no Detroit riots. (His ticket last week included three Negro Councilmen.) As mayor, he has helped settle many a labor dispute, has had labor unions with him from the start. So are local G.O.P. businessmen: his Republican opponent had a hard time getting campaign finances...
Minor Statesman Connally, and those in the Administration who had advised him into timidity, were wrong. They had anticipated heavy opposition from onetime isolationists, realizing no more than Walter Winchell how dead the old-fashioned isolationism is. So Tom Connally had polished and burnished his Resolution down to harmless generalities. But in five days of dull mumbling and set-piece speeches, only one bigtime isolationist-Montana's irreconcilable Burt Wheeler-rose in routine wrath. In fact, Tom Connally was pushed and prodded, badgered and heckled by a bloc of tough-minded internationalists ("The Willful Fourteen") who were...
...Although some critics regard Dewey as an opportunist who jumped on the internationalist bandwagon after the horses were in full gallop, he was never really an "isolationist." He concedes: "Certainly I have changed my views on foreign policy. Everyone has." But he favored Lend-Lease, military preparedness, decided before Pearl Harbor that the U.S. would have to go to war. His ambiguous record as a Presidential candidate in 1940 was dictated by 1) his emotional distaste for war ("I suppose at heart I am really a pacifist") and 2) political caution...