The Pittsburgh Press (October 20, 1944)
Cox assails GOP as ‘isolationist’
Dayton, Ohio (UP) –
James M. Cox, former Governor of Ohio and Democratic candidate for President in 1920, charged last night that the “economic isolationists” who wrecked the peace during the Harding administration “control the Republican Party still” and are concealing their plans “till their chance to act has come” again.
Mr. Cox said:
The economic isolationist knows that cooperation of nations pledged to just relations between the nations of the earth bodes no good for him. It will mean not only freedom from war but freedom from commerce… he has found his chance in the international market through that modern monopoly device, the cartel. That is why he so desperately wants his representative in the White House and he pours forth his campaign contributions accordingly.