Word: non
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coalition in any political sense was dead. This seemed to be all right with everybody. The U. S., impatient with politics, wanted not coalition but non-partisan unity behind a vast national effort to arm the country. That Colonel Knox might yet become Secretary of the Navy was still possible; a more likely possibility was that New York City's Mayor LaGuardia would become Secretary of War, in place of Harry Woodring, who had vowed to stay until he was kicked...
...gain anything when you parade the horrors of war or play on the emotions which everyone shares, no matter what his views. You should realize, I think, that you are not engaging in an emotional holiday or expressing a mere literary conviction. You should emphasize that your struggle for non-intervention entails also a willingness to make sacrifices--genuine sacrifices--in the fight to preserve and extend democracy at home. You should know that as you struggle for the real interests of your country, you must move in the teeth of an opposition that will employ the most invidious devices...
...business community to the latter's economic stake in an Allied victory. Essentially, his argument is that the United States went to war in 1917 and will go again to protect and enrich big business. In so arguing Mr. Sargent has used questionable logic to support a desirable end--non-intervention...
...Sargent's non-interventionist argument helps balance the pro-Allied utterances of others. Despite its superficial counter-propaganda value, though, his argumentation represents an undesirable type of support for the non-interventionist cause. Interventionists can shoot such logic full of holes and then triumphantly demand our participation in the War. With many sound arguments to back non-intervention it is both unnecessary and dangerous to adopt Mr. Sargent's views...
...Federal Council of Churches met last week in Manhattan to draft a statement on the war. Badly split on isolation policy, it found a weak compromise: to set aside June 2 as a day of peace prayers. ∧ In Chicago, Dr. Harold Washington Ruopp (non denominational) decided not to talk on war before his big congregation in Orchestra Hall (home of Chicago Symphony) last week. Each new headline, declared he, changes his mind. In Jefferson City, Mo., the Rev. A. B. Jackson (Presbyterian) admitted: "I realize the Allies are fighting our fight for us. But we ought not to enter...