Earl Browder Quotes

He was shot in 1944 for his involvement in an attempt to kill Hitler

Leval was an appeaser and a collaborator with the Nazi’s. He led the government in name but the Germans really controlled the country. His actions killed tens of thousands of French men and women by turning them over to the Germans. After the Germans were defeated in WWII, Leval was shot as a traitor by the Free French forces.

Ford was a great admirer of Adolf Hitler who thought Ford was the greatest of the Americans. He was an inveterate Fascist—racism and all. He vehemently opposed United States entry into WWII against the Nazis. He was awarded a medal by Hitler, and he had no qualms about taking it.

This speech to over 100,000 people galvanized the Indian nationalists They had been asking the British to change the constitution to give India more independence. Churchill was opposed to any policy that would diminish the British Empire, but needed the Indians as men of India served in the British Army in every major theater of WWII. So instead of saying "No" Churchill held out the possibility but at a later time. He argued that it was inopportune to alter the Constitution in the midst of a world war.

Christie was a Tory—a British supporter, but what he did that was so offensive was that he had requested that British Troops come to Maryland to control the rebellion.

In 1937 four nationalist army columns were converging on Madrid in the Spanish Civil War. General Mola was asked which column would take Madrid. His reference to the sympathizers inside the city became a universal term for traitors.

Even as he was being executed for his many war crimes, the Field Marshal exhibited the mental perspective of Germanic patriotism that had brought Europe as well as Germany itself so much death and ruin.

He was an ally of the Ku Klux Klan and shared their vision of a binary moral and ethical world. There was no room for critics of the war effort.

General Motors in Germany had started manufacturing trucks for the Nazi regime. Ford also was building dual use—military and civilian—vehicles. A number of American corporations, with World War II having started in Europe, owned subsidiaries in Nazi Germany which under Nazi laws and regulations were required to produce products for the Nazi government. IBM machines were being used to keep track of all the anti-Nazis, Jews and other perceived “enemies”. Nazi contracts were very profitable and most American firms in Germany just closed their eyes to what the Nazi regime was doing and even fired their Jewish workers rather than close down their German factories. With this horrible experience with large corporations helping what was to be our enemy, after WW2 Congress passed legislation which allows the President to make it illegal for American firms to trade with, manufacture in, or provide technical assistance to Countries that are potential enemies.

The Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, preceded him with the announcement of declaration of war against Germany, but it was left up to the Foreign Minister to explain the implications. This was the first time in history that a nation had used radio to communicate such momentous events to its population.

He was a strong conservative who defended the George W, Bush administration, He was not alone in believing that in wartime, attacks and criticisms of the President and his administration give “aid and comfort to the enemy and weaken the nation’s resolve. However, he is almost unique in the level of hypocracy that he exhibited when a Democrat was next in the Presidency. The fact that we were in two major wars and incursions as well, did not inhibit him from viciously critizing President Barack Obama. He didn’t think this made him a “BAD” American and promptly forgot this quotation which came back to ic in haunt him.

In war time often we have behaved in ways we were embarrassed by in the fullness of time such as the internment of the Japanese Americans in WWII. The vast majority of the press was totally intimidated and any one who suggested that the administration might be wrong was not only accused of being themselves wrong but of being un-American and almost a traitor. O’Reiley probably did this better than most. History and events of course, showed later that these premises and claims were totally wrong. There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and there was no Iraqi involvement in with Al Quaeda and September 11. Many people do not think O’Reily was a BAD American for being a ctitic in wartime and neither were the people he labeled as “BAD”. In a democracy, critism helps even if it is embarrassing to a particular administration.

Harrison, then a young Captain, was concerned about the French, British and Spanish agents "plotting" in the United States:

The man who was “the best war photographer in the world” but was a refugee from Hungary in New York. The Government actually prohibited him from having a camera and would not give him a visa to go to Europe to cover the War. Finally the government relented from its absurd concept of security and Capa became the leading photographer of the American Army effort in Europe and shot the greatest photos of the D-Day landing. Incredibly, in the McCarthy era, his passport was rescinded by the State Department because he had photographed the Spanish Civil War and was wrongly thought a communist. After legal action he got his passport back and covered Vietnam. While with front-line American troops he was blown up by a mine, the first American journalist killed in the Vietnam war. And the man who the State Department thought disloyal in three wars, was given a military funeral in Vietnam and his family was offered burial in Arlington National Cemetery reserved for American military.