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Now therefore, be it Resolved by the Fiftieth Annual Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, That we hereby declare that we are unalterably opposed to any program which would entail the surrender of any part of the sovereignty of the United States of America in favor of a world government.
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States. "Resolution." Fiftieth Annual Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, Miami, Florida, 21-26 Aug. 1949.
Hoover and Gibson were not necessarily advocating this argument but summarizing concerns of many. Hoover was actually a strong supporter of the League of Nations and the United Nations.
Buchanan was the first major Republican to advocate isolationism since that was the backbone of Republican Party ideology in the decades before WWII. This was a large reversal from the Internationalism and Manifest Destiny of Republicans under Presidents McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. After Roosevelt’s great leadership making the United States the preeminent power in the World, the Republicans also espoused that direction and even took it further than the Democrats. But Buchanan was advocating another Republican Flip Flop, and while he found little support from Republican Party regulars, he fired up a small but intense group—most;y white males who were not college graduates. These Buchanan supporters became the nucleus of the Tea Party that would come to prominence 20 years later.
