Word: isolationists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with members of the Young Democrats and Tocsin, Church said he feared a radical swing to isolationism within the next five to ten years, as popular opposition to the heavy cost of America's international commitments grows and Western Europe becomes increasingly independent of American leadership. He said this isolationist tide can only be stemmed by making reasonable concessions to it now. He suggested that all military subsidies to Western Europe, which total about $250 million annually, be stopped, and that the waste in foreign aid be eliminated...
From his undergraduate days, Mr. Stewart chiefly remembers the awesome approach of World War II and the controversy over the question of United States entry. The Yale Daily News, under a series of chairmen including Kingman Brewster, now dean of the Yale faculty, had taken an isolationist position. At the time when the controversy was greatest, Stewart was writing frequently for the News editorial page, and defending it in public. When the United States finally did enter the war, Stewart wrote a series of editorials suggesting ways in which the university could effectively mobilize for wartime service. Several...
...current photographic exhibit at Adams House breaks an unofficial tradition there--the showing only of work by people connected with the University. The result, however, is well worth the affront to isolationist sentiment...
Died. Robert Rice Reynolds, 78, windy former Senator from North Carolina known as "Our Bob" to his admiring constituents and "Buncombe Bob" to his Hill colleagues, who in two terms (1933-45) earned a well-deserved reputation as the Senate's champion international joy-junketer while voting its isolationist line; of cancer; in Asheville, N.C. A charming, five-times-married ladies' man and wise cracking speaker, "Our Bob" finally decided to retire in 1944 when words proved no longer enough, heeding one North Carolinian's remark: "In wartime you've got to give up luxuries...
...called Hughes' Men of a Europeans force freeing American for work at home "a rosy picture that seems a hit isolationist-tinged." No small European force could deter a Soviet attack, Halperin said...