Word: isolationized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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One group of the Republican Party is already changing from Isolation to Appeasement. The Republican Party will be required to meet its responsibilities in its platform-it will be required to choose between partisan-weaseling of men like Colonel Robert R.
At Harvard, meanwhile, undergraduates and alumni began their commencement and reunions under agreement (at President James B. Conant's request) to avoid war arguments. They knew well that many an alumnus bitterly resented Harvard undergraduate pacifism. They listened politely to Secretary of State Cordell Hull as he called isolation...
Dead was Isolation in its old, blunted sense of separation from Europe and Europe's world. Aborning was a new and sensitive Isolation, a conscious turning inward for the strength and means to stand in and against the world of Hitler.
Nor were they stopped when professional politicos pointed out the obstacles: that Wendell Willkie was a businessman and, even more sinister, a utilities executive; that he had been a registered Democrat and had voted for Franklin Roosevelt in 1932; that his office was only a block from Wall Street; that...
Yet, when Colonel Lindbergh uses the prestige of his fame to speak for national isolation, he is doing as an individual exactly what he is condemning the country for doing as a nation. America is using its prestige, its strength, and its potential force to condemn international gangsterism. Colonel Lindbergh...