Word: isolationists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...noisiest journalistic joust of the decade, the battle began three days before Pearl Harbor, when a rich newcomer, Marshall Field, started his liberal Chicago Sun to fight McCormick's well-entrenched, isolationist Tribune. One bitter morning last week, while frozen-fingered printers picketed Field's plant on windswept Wacker Drive, the battle ended. The Sun gave up the ghost and merged with Field's afternoon tabloid Times. This week, when the Sun & Times went on the newsstands, there were few recognizable Sunbeams...
...Inheritors. The moving spirit of the gathering was Majority Whip Kenneth Wherry, the ex-isolationist from Nebraska. Among the conferees were such diehard inheritors of the old isolationist tradition as Ohio's John Bricker, Illinois' "Curley" Brooks, Missouri's James Kem. In all, 20 Republican Senators turned up. Except for California's Bill Knowland, all were men who had been stirring restlessly under the bipartisan policy. All had been growing increasingly critical of Arthur Vandenberg's willingness to work with the Administration...
...House Foreign Affairs Committee reported out its $590 million relief bill (including a $67 million cut in the Administration's program, a $60 million dividend for China). Before it could reach the House floor, it had to be routed through the Rules Committee, headed by Illinois' Isolationist Leo Allen. The Rules Committeemen had their crowbars poised and ready...
When the House convened next day, the wrangling began all over again. For six hours that afternoon and six the next, the debate ranged over familiar, barren ground. Michigan's Clare Hoffman, who is bitterly isolationist and antiCommunist, rose up to quote from Washington's Farewell Address: "Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground?" Then, quite unpredictably, he branded the danger of world Communism "a false doctrine...
...Herter Committee returned with a healthy and wholehearted respect for Europe's Reds. The committeemen had seen them at work. Ohio's Thomas Jenkins, once a rabid isolationist, had seen Communism's hard Yugoslav face at Trieste. Considerably shaken, Jenkins wrote: "This terrorism is an example of the methods which Communists will employ to extend their doctrines...