J. B. Morton Quotes
Erratum. In my article on the Price of Milk, 'Horses' should have read 'Cows' throughout.
Morton, J. B. The Best of Beachcomber. Heinemann, 1963.
The United States along with France, Britain and other Western nations maintained an arms embargo against both sides of the Spanish Civil War. However, Italy and Germany, not only shipped arms to the Nationalists but sent planes and crews to fight against the Republicans. Bowers warned that the freely elected Republican government would not be able to hold out against the Fascist attacks of two outside countries and the nationalists in Spain. Further that the arms embargo would force the Republicans politically into the hands of the Russians who became the only possible sourced of arms. The American right wing was opposed to involvement in such foreign disputes. After the Fascists took over Spain, the lesson was not lost on Roosevelt in terms of arms to Great Britain when WWII broke out.
He was commenting on the Iraq War and the refusal of the George W. Bush Administration to alter its failing policy. The dilemma is that by changing policy whatever administration is in power admits that the previous policy was flawed.
John Cameron Andrieu Bingham Michael Morton, better known by his preferred abbreviation J. B. Morton was an English humorous writer noted for authoring a column called "By the Way" under the pen name 'Beachcomber' in the Daily Express from 1924 to 1975.
