Henry Cabot Lodge Quotes
It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who seek to solve the social problems not by patient endeavor, but by brutal destruction.
The Tay Son Rebellion had overthrown the Nguyen Lords in the South by 1783 and then the Trinh Lords in the North in 1789. The revolutionary unification of Vietnam was short lived when Hue, the conqueror of the North, died in 1792. See {42229} for a reason for the very high taxes.
In 1837 and 1839 there were insurrections in Lower Canada against British rule. The British put down the rebellion and executed a few of the leaders.
This was the basic document issued after the Russian Revolution establishing the basic legal and economic structure of the new Soviet State. In one of the great ironies, the Communist state forced people to work, while the capitalistic United States and most of the European Countries so this as an invasion of rights and even provided welfare and other assistance to those who did not work as well as to others.
The king was making his judgment that the English whites did not have the “gut” to kill the number of people and perpetuate the other cruelties to forcibly convert Black Africans to Christianity, and even if they did, it would be inconsistent with the moral tenets of the religion. He was not familiar with the Reformation persecutions of previous generations, nor did he anticipate the effect of colonialism by which large parts of Africa were culturally and religiously converted.
There had been a major labor strike in the textile mills of Lawrence. Ettor was one of the major strike leaders and strategists. The city authorities sided totally with the mill owners and used police and militia to try and break the strike. When one of the strikers was shot and killed (historians generally agree that the police had fired the shot), the authorities used the death to incapacitate the leadership of Ettor and two other “socialist” leaders who were professional strike organizers and leaders. The 3 were arrested and charged with murder, firing the shot that killed the striker. Ettor and the others were miles away at the time giving speeches to the strikers at another mill. None-the-less, they were arrested, jailed, and not even tried until after the strike was ended. The three were quickly acquitted. The jailing of the strike leaders backfired and made the strikers even more resolute. The laborers finally won the concessions, not to have their pay cut. The defendants went on to lead other strikes.
In the 1920s through the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1963, Southern politicians labled all efforts for desegregation as “socialist” or “communist”. What is less known it that this canard goes back to the slavery argument BEFORE the Civil War. This document was relatively widely distributed in the South to the literate part of the public (Even the white population had high illiteracy rates in the South—even in modern times it is higher than the rest of the nation.) In this case the author actually claimed that many Northern State legislatures were socialist controlled as was the House of Represented; and many Southerners actually believed him. Even into the 21st century Southern conservatives were claiming that pro affirmative action politicians like President Obama were socialists and some people actually believed that also.
This quotation illustrates White’s extreme naivety about Stalinist Russia. At the time the Soviet Union had been backing communist insurgencies blatantly in China, Greece, and Korea for example. Most historians agree that White passed classified information to the Russians. He was accused of being a Communist, but there was never any evidence of that. Some people believe that he was a spy for the Russians and committed espionage, but others disagree observing that White was very much his own man and felt that much information that was classified never should have been. White substituted his own judgment, it is believed, about what could be given to the Russians. He was an admirer of what Russian socialism had accomplished economically, educationally and medically since the 1917 revolution deposing the Czar. Russia had been a valuable military ally, which had taken the brunt of both military and civilian casualties in WWII. White’s economics were certainly not Marxist but very much Keynesian. He was subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee where he was accused of being a Communist which he denied (see {634907}). He died of a heart attack 3 days later.
Henry Cabot Lodge was an American Republican politician, historian, and statesman from Massachusetts. He served in the United States Senate from 1893 to 1924 and is best known for his positions on foreign policy. His successful crusade against Woodrow Wilson's Treaty of Versailles ensured that the United States never joined the League of Nations and his reservations against that treaty influenced the structure of the modern United Nations.
