Word: isolationists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first school thinks Joseph Stalin may be playing a sly, lone, isolationist hand. It points out parallels, such as Kutuzov's reply to the British observer Wilson when the latter urged the Russian to destroy Napoleon instead of merely pursuing him. "Kutuzov told him plainly," says Eugene Tarle (Napoleon's Invasion of Russia), "that his aim was to eject Napoleon from Russia and that he did not see why Russia should waste her forces on the complete destruction of Napoleon, since the harvest of such a victory would be reaped by England, not Russia...
...these dangers are less than those that would result from a post-war isolationist reaction. This possibility cannot be permitted. The Wadsworth Bill should be passed as necessary insurance against any effort to retreat again from the responsibility of maintaining collective security. But with its passage must come the sober realization that its misrepresentation after the war could result in a completely undesirable over-emphasis of our armed forces, and those objectives which are accomplished through the use of armed force. Congress is playing with fire, and it must not be allowed to burn out of bounds...
Under Lend-Lease's bridge of ships, oceans of water had passed in two years. In the spring of 1941 the Lend-Lease Act produced one of the bitterest wrangles of the isolationist-interventionist debate. Last week Congress got ready to renew the Act in an atmosphere of love & kisses...
...first day Senator Charles W. Tobey of New Hampshire took the stand to defend O'Donnell. Tobey, a 100% Isolationist before Pearl Harbor, stated his belief, unshaken by repeated official U.S. Navy denials, that U.S. warships actually were convoying British vessels long before the U.S. went actively to war. O'Donnell testified that seven Senators and Representative Sol Bloom had told him so. O'Donnell's attorney, former G.O.P. National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton, questioned Publisher Stern...
...been suspect by individualists, is likely to reassure individualists, here & abroad, that plans for world cooperation will not be twisted into some strange new socialistic way of life. It should permit domestic issues to be decided on their own merits, without reference to the old emotion-charged tags of "isolationist" or "interventionist...