Word: isolationists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Impressed by the progress of Nazi Germany's air machine, and equally appalled by the lack of preparedness in Britain and France, Lindbergh in 1941 joined America First, an isolationist group, in urging the U.S. to stay out of the war. Britain and France were doomed, he said, and Germany and the Soviet Union would eventually destroy each other. Though he immediately volunteered for service after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt would not forgive his earlier opposition to America's policy of helping the Allies, and he refused him a uniform. As a civilian consultant to the War Department...
Nonetheless, Lindbergh never recanted his isolationist position. While he was never an anti-Semite or a fascist, as some charged at the time, he remained appallingly insensitive to the true evils of the Hitler regime. "His self-confidence thickened into arrogance," said English Writer Harold Nicolson, an old friend. "His mind had been sharpened by fame and tragedy until it had become as hard, as metallic and as narrow as a chisel...
Burton K. Wheeler, LL.D., a leading isolationist in the U.S. Senate in the 1930s...
...during the '30s and '40s; in Cherokee, Iowa. A successful Democrat in a Republican farm state, Gillette opposed Roosevelt's plans to pack the Supreme Court, extend Lend-Lease aid to European Allies and serve for more than two terms. He overcame his reputation as an isolationist by helping to draft the United Nations Charter, but despite his apparent popularity and staunch pro-farmer politics, he was defeated for a fourth Senate term...
...committee of 20 nations, but full agreement is felt to be about two years away. Faster progress must be made. Otherwise, the new financial system that nations are groping toward could turn out to be a system of capital and trade restrictions splitting the world into economically isolationist compartments...