Wendell Willkie Quotes
Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.
Willkie, Wendell L. One World. Simon and Schuster, 1943, p. 190.
War had broken out in Europe and Jefferson enumerated a series of actions so that the United States would remain neutral. He was concerned that individual Americans would partake in foreign wars and then be captures of have to be ransomed or would give offence to some other nation who would assume that the American was acting with government approval and was allied with an enemy. The issue of American mercenaries fighting in foreign conflicts has been controversial ever since.
Critics of his position observe that the Islamic fundamentalists will never allow girls to go to school even if they were built and they might blow up any school that might be constructed if the allies did not have enough troops in Iraq to protect them and suppress the terrorists. When the Taliban fundamentalists controlled Afghanistan before the coalition drove them out, neither little girls not big girls could acquire education and women were not even allowed to work.
He was thrown out of the Labour Party for his pro Cold War and Soviet statements.
Classic socialism thought that war was the greatest danger of capitalism. However in the 21st century the consensus was that the great capitalistic danger was failure and collapse of the ley capitalistic institutions like banks in a globalized world such as the 2008 Great Recession.
This phrase and the theory behind it are often misattributed to Samuel P. Huntington who first used it as the title of a talk at the American Enterprise Institute in 1992 and the following year used if as the Title of a very important article in Foreign Affairs. Huntington was very familiar with Lewis’ works and doubtless used the Lewis phrase as it perfectly fit Huntington’s concept. See {604193}.
Every major Western power and Japan were looking to control parts of China for their own mercantile advantage. The Emperor, her adopted son, had stated that under no circumstances would the Chinese fight, but Cixi issued this decree, in effect, overruling the Emperor—a remarkable occurrence.
Wendell Lewis Willkie was an American lawyer, corporate executive, and the 1940 Republican nominee for President of the United States. Willkie appealed to many convention delegates as the Republican field's only interventionist: although the U.S. remained neutral prior to Pearl Harbor, he favored greater U.S. involvement in World War II to support Britain and other Allies. His Democratic opponent, incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt, won the 1940 election with about 55% of the popular vote and took the electoral college vote by a wide margin.
