Word: isolationized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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> Forcing a route through Turkey would be expensive, but isolation of Turkey from the peace table would be a hard blow for the Turks;
"But after Munich the evil tidings out of Europe and Asia began to swamp the State Department. . . . Slowly, reluctantly, hesitantly, Franklin Roosevelt abandoned his isolation. . . .
"Commencement time will come to the world when the armies stop marching, when the men return to the factories and fields, and when the statesmen get down to planning in real earnest. ... As a nation we decided we were not ready to take on adult responsibilities after World War I...
>But the most absorbing speculation concerned a rapprochement between the Vatican and the Kremlin, involving, rumor said, a visit by the Archbishop to Moscow, perhaps from Teheran. It was a dizzy prospect to dwell on, for Communism and Catholicism have been archenemies through a bitter quarter century. Yet Francis Spellman...
A third attitude in need of clarification concerns Great Britain. A frequent U.S. alternative to isolation is the all-too-obvious feeling: "Let's get in there and show those Limeys how things really ought to done"; usually accompanied by the corollary: "They're not very strong, but...