Word: isolationists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fortnight ago Karl Mundt, re-elected last November although his isolationist record was under heavy attack, proposed, in a House resolution, that the U.S. set up a commission now to make a "realistic, bipartisan, non-political study" of postwar foreign and domestic proposals. His hope: "that America and the world can benefit from recommendations worked out in such an atmosphere of serious-minded, non-sensational deliberation...
Karl Mundt's resolution will very probably never get out of committee; he proposed that the commission be appointed by Cordell Hull, Herbert Hoover and Congress. But it was significant for a broader reason: it was a definite break from the isolationist ranks. Said the man who once opposed any foreign intervention: "Neither our foreign policy nor our domestic economy can operate in a vacuum after the war. . . . We must make neither the mistake of fashioning international programs without regard to our American destiny, nor the error of focusing attention upon American problems without regard to their workability...
Once, in the old dead days of the isolationist debate, Britain's devout Lord Halifax stopped to chat with an American mother picketing his hotel with an anti-war banner. He listened gravely to her story of her nine sons, said quietly: "I, too, have sons," shook hands, walked...
...Dennett's office and made a file of persons and organizations corresponding with Dennett. Then he rented a special mailbox, adopted the phony names of "Jefferson Breem" and "Adam Quigley," wrote Jew-baiting letters to all the names in the file. He was flooded with antiSemitic, anti-Roosevelt, isolationist literature, not only from persons to whom he had written, but from others as well. Soon other organizations he had never heard of had him on their mailing lists...
Results of all this sleuthing discovery: that many propaganda agencies in the U.S. were working together, swapping mailing lists; that many an isolationist Congressman's free mailing privilege was being used to disseminate such propaganda, some of which even was inserted into the Congressional Record and then mailed out as Congressional Record "reprints"; that Congressman Fish's secretary, George Hill, later jailed for perjury (TIME. March 2), was serving as handyman for a propaganda ring managed by George Sylvester Viereck and Dennett...