J. Edgar Hoover Quotes
Intellectual perverts!
J. Edgar Hoover, 1895-1972, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Description of pacifists during the First World War, Quoted on PBS, The American Experience, April 12, 2004
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First woman elected to Congress. She was one of a handful of Congressman who opposed the WWI declaration. She was the only member of the House to oppose FDR’s request for a Declaration of War against Japan after Pearl Harbor.
One of the mocking eulogies the nationalists and fascists used when burying alive their enemies.
The suffragette movement was split by WWI and the issue of pacicism. See {621265} for the pro war factional view.
Unfortunately, the prime minister turned out to be very accurate in his predictions. The Second World War functioned just as he said.
stating that war was obsolete See {640087} for the quotation of exactly what Angell wrote.
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.
1st Earl of Oxford. While clearly a gross overgeneralization, the Austrian leadership were in the process of making some very stupid policy decisions that led to WW I and the destruction and breakup of their empire.
German ally, the Austro-Hungarian Empire had declared war on Serbia. See {642085}. The Russian Czar was under great pressure because a large Roman Catholic Empire was warring against a small Orthodox co-religionist of Russia and Russians of all classes wanted Russia to defend Serbia. The Czar was making a good faith effort to stave off the war. What he did not realize was that Germany had actually planned for war against Russia and France and was using the alliance with Austria as an excuse.
A meeting had been scheduled in Laos with American President Barak Obama a few days hence. Journalists and advisers told him to be prepared for Obama to criticize him for the over 1500 extrajudicial murders which he had encouraged thus denying his own citizens the most basic of human rights—the rights to live. Détente went into a tirade and made this statement. The United States cancelled the meeting.
John Edgar Hoover was an American law enforcement administrator who served as the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. He was appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation – the FBI's predecessor – in 1924 and was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director for another 37 years until his death in 1972 at the age of 77. Hoover has been credited with building the FBI into a larger crime-fighting agency than it was at its inception and with instituting a number of modernizations to police technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories. Hoover is also credited with establishing and expanding a national blacklist, referred to as the FBI Index or Index List, renamed in 2001 as the Terrorist Screening Database which the FBI still compiles and manages.
