Winston Churchill Quotes

In the earliest prediction of the World War II conflict between America and Japan:

The Japanese diplomats had delivered the last part of a 14 part response to the American peace proposals. The Japanese had strung the repose out with much dissembling to cover up the fact that the Japanese fleet was sailing to attack Pearl Harbor. At the time Hull made this intended diplomatically insulting statement, he and the American leadership knew that Pearl Harbor had been attacked, while the Japanese diplomats knew the attack was planned but did not know it had taken place as their code description of the cables was not very efficient. FDR and Hull had decided to send the Japanese Diplomats back to Japan, but Hull could not refrain from chastising Nomura and the Japanese for their duplicity.

Tesla was one of the great American immigrant scientists. He found in America the kind of intellectual and operational freedom that did not exist in the rigid, monarch-controlled, Austro-Hungarian Empire. He developed patents and techniques that formed the technological bases of radio, telephone long distance, TV, cell phones, Wi Fi, just to name a few. Most important he was Thomas Edison’s great nemesis. Edison invented DC electric generators that could power factories or entire streets in a neighborhood. Tesler invented and developed AC electrical technology which could power entire cities and he could move electricity over long distances which Edison could not. Tesler was one of the first scientists to conceive of and try to implement “Big Science” where there were huge capital investments to develop machines and systems to do what had never been done before—philosophically like the CERN Hadron Collider. Tesler even convinced a large corporation to finance the construction of a massive building and tower so he could experiment with the wireless transmission of electricity. However, as the industrial democracies have learned, Big Science can only be funded by governments and it often takes sever working in consort to afford the huge investment that is required. In Tesler’s era, the federal and state governments did not fund scientific research so his work was not only technically ahead of his time but also conceptually. He anticipated most of the problems and need for a national power grid that was challenging America even at the beginning of the 21st century.

Neville Chamberlain is viewed in Britain as one of the worst appeasers of all time. He refused to fulfill the obligations of Great Britain when Hitler invaded parts of Europe. He appeased Hitler because he wanted to avoid war and is a historical icon of a person who would do anything to avoid war.

For various historical reasons the United States and Iran at that time had no diplomatic relations and there was no easy way for the countries to negotiate their differences. The United States public policy was that Iran would not be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon which was backed up by severe economic sanctions and the threat of military force. Kucinich wanted face to face negotiations and discussions before we resorted to military action.

The Crises to which he was referring were the rapidly increasing hostility between Japan and the United States, Britain, and Russia. The very heavily military influence and participation in the government produced a very aggressive foreign policy of expansion in Asia. Sato resigned after two months in office, and served as a senior diplomat thereafter. Towards the end of the war with America & Britain, he was selected as the Japanese diplomat to try and keep Russia out of the war and assist with a negotiated peace. However, by the time he was authorized to approach Russia, the Japanese military situation was so bad that it was clear to the Russians that Japan could not win, so they joined the Allies, declaring was against Japan. After the war, he was one of the few Japanese political figures who had both moral credibility with the Allies and the respect of the Japanese people. He was appointed President of a group of diplomats that would advise the Japanese Parliament regarding foreign affairs.