John Mahoney Quotes

It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.

There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford.

It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.

I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.

I sincerely wish that every member of Congress could visit the displaced person's camp in Germany and Austria and see just what is happening to 500,000 human beings through no fault of their own.

Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.

That was the principle of reparations to which President Truman agreed at Potsdam. And the United States will not agree to the taking from Germany of greater reparations than was provided by the Potsdam Agreement.

I'm a war baby: I was brought up with rationing, and my parents always had to struggle. I remember when I was sent to boarding school - Prior Park College in Bath - my father was asked how he was going to pay the fees, and he replied: 'In arrears.'

I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.

In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker of furniture, the payment for that work was very poor.

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.

The American people want peace. They have long since ceased to talk of a hard or a soft peace for Germany.

If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies; they say the United States won the war and saved the world.

The family ties between hundreds of thousands of German families and their American relatives led many to think that America would never join a second war against Germany.

The German experience, as you can see, did move me very much. Seeing that terrible destruction and seeing the miserable state of the people, how they had been beaten down by the war through no fault of their own probably.

The dramatic wish of Romanians at the end of the Second World War was to be occupied by the Americans and not by the Russians.

I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s.

We’ll all fight like cats – or die rather than submit to Hitler. U.S. look pretty useless. Well, we must die without them.

During the late 1940s, Europe was a pretty bleak place.

After World War II there were many Jews who remained in refugee camps...President Harry F. Truman called for the Harrison Commission to investigate the situation in the camps and it was a pretty gloomy report. There were very few Jews admitted into the United States.

I was born in 1928, so in 1943, 1944, we had the war in Rome. There were a lot of hardships, a lack of food, many shortages. So when I worked with the Americans, the English, and the Canadians soon after the war, when I played with them, they paid me with food. That will give you an idea how widespread poverty was at that time.

I grew up in an era when money was not readily available. We were into the post-Depression years and World War II.

The Japanese scored an important victory at Pearl Harbor, but the attack pulled the United States into World War II, and four years later, Japan was in ruins, utterly defeated.

Part of my head will always be in the years after World War II - the five years before Korea started.

I knew that Britain and the United States were beacons of freedom and democracy at a time when my life - and Western civilisation itself - was at grave risk.