Dean Acheson Quotes
While General MacArthur had many of the attributes of a foreign sovereign ... and was quite as difficult as any, it did not seem wise to recognize him as one.
Dean Acheson, 1893-1971, U.S. Secretary of State (Democrat), Quoted in David McCullough, Truman
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The assumption of one supreme authority being necessary for a state, has been the most common assumption in almost all cultures and times before the American Revolution. What is amazing is that the Founding Fathers rejected this notion in favor of our complex system of checks and balances restrained by a Constitution which no society had ever tried before. England in contrast as it became more democratic, simply shifted the supreme, uncontrollable entity from the King to the Parliament which it is even today. Parliament can do virtually anything unrestrained by anything except their judgment and tradition.
He was then the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
During the Civil War, General Joseph Hooker castigated the President and called for a dictator to assume power:
Shields was specifically discussing reasons for the then estrangement from many countries of the world.
El Baradei resigned when he made this statement. After the Arab Spring revolution, Mohammed Morsi had been elected President by a bare 51 pecent of the vote. However, he was a member of the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, an international terrorist organization which advocates Islamic Sharia and Theocracy. He began sizing powers and his government passed a constitution that did not guarantee basic human rights and moved towards a theocracy. Then he eliminated the checks and balances and the public finally revolted bringing 20 million Egyptians into the street in protest. A civil war was eminent and the military stepped in and forced Morsi to resign.
“Dey” and “bey” were Arabic terms for the local ruler of an area.
The only soldier ever so honored
Meiji the Great. This was a momentous event in Japanese history. This was the first time that the Japanese Emperor had appointed diplomats to conduct foreign affairs. Prior to that, Japan was so isolationist that at times Japanese who had any contact with Westerners would be executed. Then the Emperor had a reception for foreign diplomats. Never before in the history of the Empire had its divine head deigned to admit to his presence the despised foreigner. The Emperor was only in his second year of rule at the time.
See {640521} for the trigger of his anger. This is a good example of a politician using indiscreet hyperbolic terms in anger. In a different time, the President might have been accused of planning extermination and genocide of the Cuban people.
This is the same man who introduced the Stamp Act 12 years before which started the whole problem in America. See {74956}.
The Kaiser was very interested in the details of the German military activities and would often micro-manage by instructing individual officers about anything that struck him as important, Motke and the other Chiefs of Staff had the management of the Kaiser as one of his most critical tasks.
Dean Gooderham Acheson was an American statesman and lawyer. As United States Secretary of State in the administration of President Harry S. Truman from 1949 to 1953, he played a central role in defining American foreign policy during the Cold War. Acheson helped design the Marshall Plan and was a key player in the development of the Truman Doctrine and creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
