John F. Kennedy Quotes
It’s not a very nice solution, but a wall is a hell of a lot better than a war
John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963, 35th President of the United States (Democrat, MA), Statement to some of his aids after the Berlin Wall went up, 1961, Quoted in Frederick Kempe, Berlin 1961, 2010
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Like many in the 1920s, Dewar saw the Communist Soviet Union as the biggest potential risk to peace. However, although the Russian leaders constantly castigated the West, they did not have a large military, and were for the most part highly anti-war as they saw war as the product of Capitalistic competition and the tool of the aristocracy. They had little military equipment and almost no training or officer corps with which to build any Army. Germany in contrast had the skill, experience, officers, a history of aggression, and huge resentment over what they considered their humiliating WWI defeat and peace terms. They would start WWII, not Russia.
The same sentiment has been attributed to Aristotle.
She and her husband, like many of the "America Firsters", believed that Hitler should be allowed to overrun Europe and Russia.
Hitler ridiculed the letter after receiving it in public speech.
There were many who thought that the Russians would view the Mutual Security Act as aggressive and they might respond with some kind of aggressive retaliation and this could lead to war. Others felt that containment would reduce the likelihood of war.
The documentation of this quotation comes from a memorandum summarizing the meeting written by Presidential aide Harry Hopkins.
Hitler ridiculed the letter after receiving it in public speech.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, often referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his work as president concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A Democrat, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in both houses of the U.S. Congress prior to becoming president.
