Archibald Cary Coolidge Quotes
Nor let it be supposed that any people is likely to remain content with semi-independence [autonomy]. It may welcome this as a first step, a partial concession, but not for long. There is no logical stopping place, no halfway house which will make a permanent home on the road to equality, and those who have once got well started on that road grow increasingly impatient and resent every effort to delay them on their way to their final goal.
Archibald Cary Coolidge, 1866–1928, Historian, Political Scientist & Diplomat, Editor-in-chief of Foreign Affairs, Statement of the futility of partial self-determination, “Ten Years of War and Peace”, Foreign Affairs, September 1923
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He attempted to broker an agreement between India’s Muslims and Hindus as to the form of the successor government.
In 1937 the U. S. Treasury Department commissioned a pair of large murals to decorate the lobby or the Ariel Rios Federal Building in Washington DC. On the mural was depicted a U. S. Mail Service from Alaska to Puerto Rico. It showed four Puerto Rican women reading a letter in the Inuit dialect presumably delivered from Alaska. The authorities loved the mural until they discovered the translation of the Inuit letter. This was a direct reference to the Puerto Rican Nationalist Independence Movement. That year 18 Puerto Rican Nationalists were killed and over 100 wounded when police fired into a crowd of demonstrators on March 21. Kent, a famous artist, planted a newspaper story with the translation and soon media all over the company were drawing attention to the Puerto Rican movement, just as Kent had intended.
He had been King of Portugal and then had come to the Portuguese colony of Brazil where he led a revolution against Portugal, declared independence from the “mother country, and was elected as Emperor of Brazil. The Colony was much larger and richer in natural resources than the “mother country.”
Ernestine Louise Polowsky. Most abolitionists were not as concerned with female emancipation. Rose was one of the exceptions.
Even in the early days of our Republic, many people were hostile to the government that they had created, Adams, a politician with a very thin skin, was insulted by the public criticizing the government after having elected it. His concept was that the public should elect their representatives and leaders and then live with what the representatives and leaders do. He in particular came in for much public criticism and insult and even passed laws – the Alien and Sedition Acts – making it illegal to verbally attack the government.
This newspaper was an English language organ published by General Allenby’s British and Allied forces in the Middle East. Prior to the war, the Middle East was all part of the Ottoman Empire. However, the Ottoman Turks sided with Germany in WWI and their Middle East dominions were targets for the allied military strategy.
“Esto perpetua” is Latin for “May it be forever”. Ireland had just obtained the right from England to pass their own laws in their own parliament. They were still under English control but now they were like a colony and not under day-to-day control.
Archibald Cary Coolidge was an American educator and diplomat. He was a Professor of History at Harvard College from 1908 and the first Director of the Harvard University Library from 1910 until his death. Coolidge was also a scholar in international affairs, a planner of the Widener Library, a member of the United States Foreign Service, and editor-in-chief of the policy journal Foreign Affairs.
