Sid Waddell Quotes
It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline.
"Sid Waddell: His best darts commentary quotes." BBC Sport, BBC, 12 Aug. 2012.
The Japanese Government was in the control of ardent militarists intent on expanding the Japanese empire. They invaded Manchuria and had designs on China. The League of Nations was very weak, in large part because the United States had not joined when the Senate refused to ratify the treaty. So peace or war In Asia depended on the fascist, military clique that ruled Japan.
The phrase had been a common one in naval parlance to indicate a cannon on board a ship that had broken free of the ropes and restraints and was rolling around. These were very dangerous to the ship. Roosevelt, as Secretary of the Navy was very familiar with that use. Today, the term is almost exclusively used in the Roosevelt political/administrative sense.
This and other quotations like {640617} and {640615} show that the State Department knew that Mobutu Sese Seko, the man we were backing in the Congo had many very undesirable characteristics for a dependable foreign ally and one who should be given control of billions of American money. Yet nothing was done and we continued to support him despite the kleptocracy and the instability that undermined his regime and the United States along with it.
Sid Waddell was an English sports commentator and television personality. He was nicknamed the 'Voice of Darts' due to his fame as a darts commentator, and worked for Granada, Yorkshire, BBC and Sky Sports. Due to his joke telling skills he was also nicknamed the Thief of Bad Gags, firstly by Dave Lanning. He was nominated for two prestigious awards for his work, and published several books.
