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I recently made acouple of edits expanding this article. I chose to retain the description of Holt's foreign policy as "isolationist", rather than the less derogatory alternative, "non-interventionist". To quote Coffey's article:
It remains to be shown that Holt expressed his pacifism unflinchingly in isolationist terminology. Some bitter-end noninterventionists, such as senators Burton K. Wheeler (D) of Montana and Gerald P Nye, objected to the "isolationist" label pinned to them by interventionists. Some claimed that they always favored internationalism in peaceful ways, while opposing military entanglement or "collective security." In contrast, Holt was an unabashed isolationist, who did not mind keeping the nation aloof from the international community in peace as well as war.
Further, if one wants to adhere to the isolationism article's definition, isolationism is a combination of a non-interventionist foreign policy and protectionism, both of which Holt supported. --darolew (talk) 09:25, 7 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
