Colleen McCullough Quotes
I stopped this one about two months before federation and I want the next one to be more political. It will deal with the formation of white Australian policy and things like that.
McCullough, Colleen. Interview. The Sydney Morning Herald, Fairfax Media, 2003.
“Cleaned out” meant destroyed. He had been a strong advocate of peace with whites. See {610679} .
At the time, some Palestinian Arabs claimed exclusive rights to the territory on the grounds that Arabs had dominated the area for the longest period of time. They gave no credence to the fact that the Jews had dominated the area and it was the center of their kingdom for many years before—that Jews had constantly lived in the area of longer than the Arabs, nor did they give any credence to the fact that the Christians had conquered the area from the Muslims during the Crusades.
Jackson’s policies regarding Indians set back all the work of the earlier Presidents and created facts on the ground and attitudes that vex us to this day. In this occasion he said very forthrightly that it was his intention to deny Indians title to ANY land in the then United States. His idea was to send all the Indians to the Oklahoma Indian Territory and establish reservations for them there. Of course, as the Western states joined the Union, the Whites wanted those Indian Lands as well. See {643150} for other Jackson views on Indian policy.
This quotation is often cited as it presages the concept of the Military Industrial Complex that was given by President Eisenhower in 1961--{641114}. It is not known whether Eisenhower had read or was briefed on this Mills quotation.
The century to which he was referring was the 19th century---1800-1899.
Gustav II Adolph. The colony would also exclude slavery, and to make a home for the oppressed of all Christendom. Essentially this was the first plan for multicultural diversification of American immigration. The 30 Years War put the project on hold until after the king’s death and it was not until 1638 that Swedish ships sailed for what they called “New Sweden” landing at Wilmington, Delaware, calling it Christina.
The meeting included several Indians, President Grant, and the Secretary of the Interior and the Director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The Indians had been offered $25,000 and land in the Oklahoma Indian Territory in exchange for moving from their traditional lands.
The British had, after earlier defeats, finally had great military success in India/Afghanistan on the one hand and China on the other. Note that the objects of the military expeditions were always twofold: First to expand trade and trading opportunities for England. Second to retrieve “honor” that had been lost by earlier military defeats.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910. Twain was one of the few whites who realized that success in assimilating American Indians would destroy their culture and identity. Even today, whites and Indians alike constantly debate the desirability of assimilation policies and supporting independent reservations.
Hong Kong was not always a successful city or colony. In 1844 the British were thinking of swapping it for a better colony. However, in a rare combination of synergistic development of a colony, the great strengths of the Chinese and that of the English combined to make Hong Kong one of the best and well developed cities in the world. Few imperial colonies turned out as well.
Executed by the English for his part in the Easter Uprising. He was criticizing his fellow Irish. During the English conquest, Gaelic was often prohibited and almost totally disappeared. Since independence there have been various movements to revitalize the old Gaelic language but this have not gotten very far.
This president served his terms as allowed by the Constitution but then moved to change the constitution so that he could be the dictator as perpetual president. The purpose of constitutions is to limit and control the day to day political process and processes of reform. This stands the purpose of a constitution on its head. Modern totalitarian states almost all have constitutions. However where they differ from democracies is that the dictatorships ignore their constitutions, constantly suspend them in “emergencies” or change them at will to serve the interests of the ruling authorities. See {622125} for a Supreme Court Justice’s view of this kind of situation.
The eventual demise of the French Colonial Empire was predicted by almost all scholars and statesmen except the French. It would be after the Second World War when the French were proved to have been delusional on this point.
Den was a liberal reformer. There were many liberal politicians in Japan until the right wing militarists took over. Most Japanese were extremely racist and wanted education to be segregated, not unlike the American South at the time. Den’s action described in this quotation was earthshaking to many Japanese. Integration of the schools was to them bad enough, but assimilating Chinese into the Japanese society was much worse.
Colleen Margaretta McCullough AO was an Australian author known for her novels, her most well-known being The Thorn Birds and The Ladies of Missalonghi.
