Word: isolationists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time since Pearl Harbor, North Dakota's die-hard isolationist Senator Gerald P. Nye, who mortally hates and fears the British Empire, got himself some real headlines. Last week Gerald Nye told the press: the Senate, probably by Nov. 1, will launch a thoroughgoing investigation of all U.S. Lend-Lease expenditures. The investigating Senators (including Nye, Maryland's Millard E. Tydings and Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar) will look suspiciously into all U.S. funds spent abroad. Nye, longtime enemy of Lend-Lease, explained: "We don't know enough about what this country is doing abroad...
...each member of this band, Russia is an island lashed by angry capitalist waves. Each distrusts the outer world. Each, essentially, is comparable to a U.S. Midwestern isolationist set against a Red background. The band's motto is the old Russian proverb: "S volkami zhit, po volchii zhit"-"He that lives among wolves must learn to howl." With the capitalist wolves, these men propose to talk the wolfish language of power politics-tough, unsentimental, strongarm...
...article in the new, fortnightly War and the Working Class, Soviet trade-union publication, named U.S. Publishers William R. Hearst, Joseph M. Patterson, Robert R. McCormick and Scripps-Howard's Roy W. Howard as "representing reactionary, defeatist, isolationist circles whose anti-Soviet campaign is designed to throw suspicion on Soviet foreign policy." Said War and the Working Class: "They circularize false, fabricated conflicts between the Soviet Union and its allies-a line which fully corresponds to the interests of Hitler's agents who are speculating on disruption...
...TIME might have said that "almost all" (instead of "many") officers think Kimmel and Short's immediate dismissal was both just and sufficient punishment. It may well be that future historians will blame Pearl Harbor less on the luckless commanders than on national overoptimism, complacency, isolationist psychology and the custom of getting tight on Saturday night...
...United States Senate. . . . Yet there must come a time when the debate must be held and when it will be necessary to have the worst said that can be said-because any course that America and other nations adopt must be strong enough to withstand the speeches of isolationist Senators...