Brooks Atkinson Quotes
After each war there is a little less democracy to save.
Atkinson, Brooks. Once Around the Sun. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1951, p. 116.
Although it had conservative and progressive support, there was opposition in the middle and the vote failed in the House 188 to 209. See Hamilton Fish for the amendment text.
These two states actually prohibited their legislatures from maintaining a standing army. Similar sentiments were in the constitutions or bill of rights of New Hampshire, Delaware, Maryland and Massachusetts but the option was left with the legislatures. A similar phrase appears in the Virginia Bill of Rights of 1776.
Following the assassination of James A. Garfield:
The League was an undisguised Communist organization. Politicians were not too worried about applying their ministerial activities to unwholesome organizations. As one of the few Republicans in the Roosevelt Administration, he might have been more worried about whom he welcomed, but not so.
Goldman, Alexander Berkman, Eugene Debbs, and many other leading intellectuals went to jail for opposing the draft, a violation of a law of the time. She served 22 months. She was a vigorous proponent of freedom of speech.
This quotation is typical of Mrs. Roosevelt’s strong criticism of Communism. However despite these positions, many of her political enemies continued to call her a Communist or a “fellow traveler”—one who tended to support Communism.
Justin Brooks Atkinson was an American theatre critic. He worked for The New York Times from 1922 to 1960. In his obituary, the Times called him "the theater's most influential reviewer of his time." Atkinson became a Times theater critic in the 1920s and his reviews became very influential. He insisted on leaving the drama desk during World War II to report on the war, he received the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 for his work as the Moscow correspondent for the Times. He returned to the theater beat in the late 1940s, until his retirement in 1960.
