Evening star., 1952-01-26
New IsolationisIll
Rising, ADA | Told
Al Rooseyet Dinner
charges tlnat Republican leaders

4 are trying 20 Duya 4TeeuOH AZ tiie
bargain counters. and are spear
heading q new isolationism were
made here last night by Senator
McMahon, Democrat, Of Connecti-
lcut, and Arthur M. Schlesinger. ]
the historian.
They were the principal speakers
lat the fourth annual Roosevelt
lDay Dinner, which memorialized
| the late President Franklin D
Roosevelt It was held In the.
Shoreham Hotel under auspices OF.
i the washington Chapter Of Amer,
|licans for Democrats action. Both
speakers took the opportunity to-
survey the political picture.
|t Senator Mcmahon. earlier in the
day, threw his support to Presi-
dent Truman when he withdrew
from the Presidential primary IN
Illinois, where he had faced Sena-
tor Kefauyer. Democrat. OF Ten.
nesSee.
Senator McMahon, in speaking.
|lof President Roosevelt, said che
will be remembered and honored
q thousand years after his mean
and petty defamers have passed
away"
Attack Here and Abroad.
HAs we meet tonight, he declared,
the faith of Franklin Roosevelt
Ills under attack-abroad and at
home. Abroad it is being assaulted
by evil men-by those who would
substitute q world of master and
slave for a society Of peers, by
those who reject the open future
in favor Of Marxist inevitability.
Sat home his fighting faith is
under attack, not by evil, but by
timid men. In place of Franklin
ID. Roosevelt's deep conviction
that we can never put price tag
on liberty, we see a leading Re-
publican contender for the Presi-
dency patronizing political five and
ten cent stores. trying to buy
freedom at the bargain counter.
Whereas once we heard that
there is no. foreseeable limit to
what we can produce, we hear to-
lday the funeral dirge of the hand
|wringerS to the effect that national
bankruptcy is imminent"
DR.. SchleSinger, who is q pro-
lfessor of history at Harvard Uni
Iversity. said the "bottleneck of our
foreign policy does not lie. in my
Judgment, in the executive
branch" He said:
1T lies partly in our national
Iinexperience as great power-in
tthe fact that we have had, in an
labrupt decade, to assume respon-
ISibilities for which Britain, for ex-
ample, had the training and prep
aration of many generations. But
the bottleneck lies, most of all, ]
think. in the attitude toward for
leign policy of our Congress and
: of the American people. It lies
lin a resurgence. I fear, of some
thing that is not quite isolationism
but partakes of it-something that
/ I will call the New Isolationism.
Old Emotions Stir.
1--WE all know that queer COM
; plex of feeling, fear and prejudice
which made up the emontional
care Of the old isolationism-the
hatred of Europe and. its age-old
and unceasing wars; the fear OF
involment in the 1arger world;
the belief in an American purity
: which should not risk contamina-
J, ton in contact with outsiders;
the old, deep, wistful hope that
we could continue to live Of our
selves and by ourselves. These
emotions did not die more
I, than that, in recent months, these
emotions have begun to generate
new doctrines"
DIR. Schlesinger said the proph-
let's of this new isolationism are
Senator Taft, Republican of Ohio
and Gen. Douglas Macarthur.
James A. Wechsler, editor of
: the New York Post, was toast
master of the dinner. Miss Grace
: ITuIly, who was confidential Sec
retary to President Roosevelt, was
chairman. Among prominent
i guests were James E. Webb, just
resigned as Undersecretary OF
lState, and w. Averell Hartman,
director of the Office for Mutual
ISecurity.