Word: mckinleyism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...McKinley, Sherman...
When Wendell Willkie ran across President McKinley's Buffalo statement that "isolation is no longer possible" (TIME, Feb. 22), he might have proceeded a trifle further before giving Mr. McKinley the phony buildup as an internationally minded statesman...
...McKinley's deeds and words as a congressman reveal a complete lack of interest in international affairs and total ignorance concerning them. As President he relied for such knowledge upon John Sherman, and God (who appeared to McKinley in a dream and told him to keep the Philippines...
Extreme protectionism, a sort of latter-day mercantilism, was McKinley's political theme song. And although he suggested reciprocal trade treaties with a Latin American Republic, he opposed wholeheartedly every attempt to realize such treaties because they were too generous...
...When McKinley attacked "isolation," he spoke as an expansionist, admittedly a certain breed of internationalist. But the motives for his internationalism-"McKinleyism," as Edward Atkinson called it-were those of high-pressure minorities inspired by self-interest. McKinley's reciprocity was a weapon of economic conquest, a give-&-receive proposition in which we gave a hard left and received the purse...