Antedating of "Isolationism"

[Shapiro, Fred]

isolationism (OED 1922)



1919 _Manchester Guardian_ 21 Mar. 7 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)  Broadly, one may say that the opposition in the Senate is composed temperamentally of these two groups, which may for convenience be called Hamiltonian and Isolationism.



Fred Shapiro

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