Walter G. Fuller Quotes
It is difficult to conceive any more proper and appropriate symbol of militarism than that which the Anti- Preparedness' Committee has hit upon. What could be more like the heavy, stumbling, clumsy brutal foolery which is destroying Europe than those old monsters of the past, the armored dinosaurs? These beasts, all armor-plate and no brains, had no more intelligent way of living than that of 'adequate preparedness.' All their difficulties were to be met by piling on more and more armor, until at last they sank by their own clumsy weight into the marsh lands ... Here was an animal unable to do even a little intelligent thinking. Its brain cavity in proportion to the size of its body was more diminutive than that of any other vertebrate. Like the militarist, therefore, it was unable to conceive of any intelligent foreign policy. Moreover, its vision was limited. Its eyes were small and could look only in a sidewise direction. It could not look ahead.
Fullor had created a giant papger mache The papier-mâché Stegosaurus featured in the April 1, 1916 issue of the magazine The Survey was no joke. Created by the "Anti-Preparedness Committee" the dinosaur carried the slogan "All Armor Plate - No Brains" beneath it as a jab at those who preferred trench warfare to diplomacy. The large model was named "Jingo the Dinosaur" was carted around the nation with pacifists turning out to see and be photographed with Jingo.
Walter G. Fuller, quoted in Smithsonian Magazine, “Jingo the Dinosaur a World War I Mascot”
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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.
Berrigan and others had entered a draft board office in Maryland and burned the records in front of reporters and onlookers:
There was a Sedition law which made it a Federal felony to encourage anyone not to join or support the military during the First World War. The Socialist Politician and Candidate for President, Eugene Debbs and others, were jailed for less seditious statements. Helen Keller was a remarkable woman who was blind and deaf, and yet she became a great orator and social reformer. The administration died not relish the reaction if they put this popular, blind, deaf woman in jail so she was never charged. The law of course was unconstitutional, but it took years to reach that determination. Until then, the Sedition Act was one of the worst examples of infringement in American history since the original Alien and Sedition Acts of John Adams.
This size standing army which alarmed so many at the beginning of the 20th century, looked very small when compared with the standing army of America a century later. For earlier American Politician’s views on a standing army, see {592824}, {631687}, {622888}, and {641008}.
Copeland had retired but took on “assignments” for the CIA one of which was as a “go-between” with Nasser.
His home was right in the midst of the major riot area. The government had just instituted the draft to provide soldiers for the Civil War. The rich could avoid the draft by paying a modest fee. The Irish of New York were at just slightly above the Negro in the New York Socioeconomic scale and the two groups competed for the low skilled jobs. Many Irish felt that they were being forced to fight to free the Southern Negroes who when free would come to New York and compete for their jobs. They rioted and killed over 100 Blacks.
Germany had just attacked Russia with whom it had a treaty. For a while, Hitler paid little attention to Italy and just gave their “ally” orders and instructions. Italian public opinion was concerned about the same question. See {627973} .
As a result was in 1799 he was indicted, convicted, and fined $480 and sentenced to 18 months in jail. In 1801, newly elected President Thomas Jefferson pardoned Brown along with all violators of the act.
In the years leading up to the 1787 Constitutional Convention, the weakness of the Articles of Confederation and the Continental Congress were clearly inadequate to govern the new nation. Riots and protests broke out in many parts of the country. Washington asked his associates from the war to determine what was really happening and when he found out, he was as discouraged as he ever was sharing this quotation with only a few friends.
A few months later, that is exactly what Germany did. She was hoping that England would not enter the war despite her treaty obligations, but she was willing to risk the possibility. The Czar had a strong espionage and intelligence service active in Germany, but, like so many other intelligence failures, the intelligence operatives and analysts had military and economic facts but had little understanding of the German culture which propelled Germany to what to most other cultures was “irrational policy making.” People and nations often engage in irrational activities, even against their own self-interest.
But that is exactly what they did and the First World War was on. Europeans and Americans have often underestimated the political force of the common membership in the Orthodox Church.
The “bozos” beat him and won the Presidency. And then conducted a very successful foreign policy for 8 years.
This is an example of a diplomatic leader losing control of herself and addressing a foreign dignitary in most undiplomatic language. The basic accusation was however quite justified. The Palestinians were preoccupied with many symbols of dignity and respect while ignoring economic development, technology, health and standard of living that could have been obtained by a compromise with Israel to create a Palestinian state.
Fuller was a strong opponent of war and headed headed the "Anti-'Preparedness' Committee" opposing World War I. He was a creative, political force using symbols and the media to fuirther the peea
