Friedrich St. Florian Quotes
I think it is fair to say that during World War II there was a high sense of purpose. The country had a very clear vision of its own standing, of its own morality. It was not an ambiguous time. Today, we live in a world that is highly ambiguous, very fractured, with many of the historical, traditional values in a state of collapse, really.
St. Florian, Friedrich. Interview with Mary Lou Beatty. Humanities, vol. 25, no. 3, National Endowment for the Humanities, May-June 2004.
He was of course not the President then. But the stands that politicians took with respect to the rebellion of the South often determined their political futures. See {640752} for another future President’s quotation on the subject.
His appeal was also in the name of concurring heads of state of Finland, Holland, Denmark, Norway, Luxemburg, and Sweden.
Note that he assumes that not only will there be another World War, but he assumes that we will be on opposite sides.
Eisenhower was then Supreme Allied Commander.
The America First Committee consisted of right wing Americans who admired the fascist states of Nazi Germany and Italy. They were very anti-English and wanted the USA to have an alliance with Hitler against England and above all to not support England in the Second World War. Once Hitler declared war on the United States, the absurdity and danger of the American First groups became clear. A few changed their minds, but most remained ultra right wing fascists. They were a public group and under surveillance by the FBI so they never participated in any sabotage or successful spying for the enemy. Ironically, the organization with the most patriotic sounding name was so disloyal and in support of those who warred on America. Great Britain had an equivalent organization arguing for England to support Germany and let Hitler control Europe.
since the end of WWI The railroads were nationalized for WWI and he ran them all as a government official
The Ambassador of Bavaria represented an area where the politicians saw democrats and socialists as their great enemy, as did many of the leading right wing conservatives in all of Germany. They believed that a great war would give them a chance to crush democratic socialism in Europe. Bethmann warned that just the opposite might result, and indeed it did. He was correct. Many of the crowned heads of Europe were deposed and the democratic socialists emerged as a major political factor in the victorious democracies. Bethmann-Hollweg, however, was not a strong leader and could not prevent the Conservatives, the military leaders, and Kaiser Wilhelm from initiating WWI.
Friedrich St. Florian (born 1932) is an Austrian-American architect. He moved to the United States in 1961, and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1973.
