Ainsley Earhardt Quotes

In the event of a victory over Germany by Soviet Russia and England, Bolshevism in Europe would inevitably follow. Under these circumstances I would prefer to see Germany win the war.

After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.

I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.

The American people want peace. They have long since ceased to talk of a hard or a soft peace for Germany.

Without Pearl Harbor there would not have been Hiroshima.

Always--from the very day we were attacked--it was right militarily as well as morally to reject the arguments of those shortsighted people who would have had us throw Britain and Russia to the Nazi wolves and concentrate against the Japanese

The Potsdam Declaration is unworthy of public notice.

The Japanese scored an important victory at Pearl Harbor, but the attack pulled the United States into World War II, and four years later, Japan was in ruins, utterly defeated.

What we went to World War II for, at least in my mind, was not getting taken care of. It was supposed to be a brave new world, but we were getting back into the old ruts, and we were in a cold war with Russia.

Most people learn all about the Second World War in school, or else, they see so many films put out by Hollywood, that it's easy to think we know exactly what happened.

We can say that Japan is the only country that calls into question the outcome of the Second World War; no one else does.

The bomb and the entrance of the Russians into the war will certainly have an effect on hastening the victory.

Just five years before that the Russians were our allies.

Mehmet Ertegun died in 1944. President Roosevelt sent his body back to Turkey on the U.S.S. Missouri. Mehmet Ertegun and President Roosevelt had had a cordial relationship, and, indeed, Mehmet Ertegun may have helped insure that Turkey did not ally itself with Germany, as it had in the First World War.

Subsequently, the Japanese people experienced a variety of vicissitudes and were involved in international disputes, eventually, for the first time in their history, experiencing the horrors of modern warfare on their own soil during World War II.

The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.

The United Nations was founded 70 years ago, at the end of World War II. Since that time, Japan has steadfastly walked the path of peace and rebuilt a nation. And, since the mid-1950s onward, we have actively worked to share our experience of development with other nations, especially in Asia.

After the war the Japanese leadership with the cooperation of the American authorities produced a whitewash of the role of the Emperor in the atrocities and war crimes.

Many people are beginning to wonder who they should fear most - the Roosevelt-Churchill combination or the Hitler-Mussolini combination.

Fascism will develop in Japan through the people’s will. It will come out of love for the Emperor.

The Briitish and the Jewish Races, for reasons which are not American, wish to involve us in the Second World] war.

An absolute and unconditional defeat of Japan is the essential ingredient for a lasting peace in the Orient. Only complete military disaster and stinging defeat and colossal losses will prove to the people that the military machine is vincible and that their fanatical leadership has taken them the way to disaster.

I hope that you will use your new bomb against the Japanese.

FDR’s War Plans

Nineteen forty-five marked the nadir of Western Civilization.