Stanley W. Finch Quotes
It will perhaps be somewhat surprising to learn that there is no Federal law which makes it a crime for one person to hold another in slavery or involuntary servitude, unless such person has been, in the first instance, kidnapped or carried away or bought or sold.
Precursor to the FBI. Through the efforts of Finch and others such a Federal law was passed.
Stanley W. Finch, 1872-1951, Chief of the Bureau of Investigation of the U. S. Department of Justice Speech, World's Purity Congress, Louisville, Ky., May 7, 1912
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He was the last Pope to hold temporal power. This defense of slavery was all the more surprising because America was fighting about the issue in the Civil War and nations like England had abolished slavery. 99 years later Vatican II altered Pius IX’s statement forever. See {612715}.
The Chinese laborers were slaves by most definitions of the word as they had been brought to South Africa on a system of indentured servitude. Slavery was illegal so the term had all kinds of political and legal significance. His statement was a masterpiece of admitting that it was almost slavery but leaving some wiggle room so as not to have classified it as such. Some use this as an example of Churchill’s capacity for hypocrisy.
Often referred to as “The Dean of Black Historians.”. Although critical of the behavior of Africans involvement in the slave trade, Person-Lynn maintains that there was a qualitative difference between African concepts of slavery where the enslavement was conceptually of human beings whereas the chattel slavery of the Atlantic trade considered the slaves as sub-human property. It is arguable as to which of the two views is the greater moral failure, but many regard it as a difference not worth much in that both views were grossly immoral and had devastating consequences for a large number of people.
Frank Wisner headed the recruiting effort which began with his personal friends and college chums. No one had any idea of what skills and standards were needed. Actually the WWII OSS (Office of Strategic Services) had a good track record and profiles of good agents, but Director Donovan lost out in the political infighting and was not selected to head the new CIA. Those who ran that agency did not want to do anything that looked like the old OSS so they began by reinventing the wheel.
Stanley Wellington Finch was the first director of the Bureau of Investigation (1908–1912), which would eventually become the FBI. He would soon retire from office.
