Richard Holbrooke Quotes
World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.
Holbrooke, Richard. Interview by Charlie Rose. Charlie Rose, PBS, 28 Oct. 1998.
stating that war was obsolete See {640087} for the quotation of exactly what Angell wrote.
Hobson, like Mark Twain in America, was a major critic of imperialism.
A few months later, that is exactly what Germany did. She was hoping that England would not enter the war despite her treaty obligations, but she was willing to risk the possibility. The Czar had a strong espionage and intelligence service active in Germany, but, like so many other intelligence failures, the intelligence operatives and analysts had military and economic facts but had little understanding of the German culture which propelled Germany to what to most other cultures was “irrational policy making.” People and nations often engage in irrational activities, even against their own self-interest.
See the American ambassador’s assessment after the war began {41089}
Peruvian Revolutionary Group. This speech was made from prison.
The suffragette movement was split by WWI and the issue of pacicism. See {621265} for the pro war factional view.
Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke was an American diplomat and author. He was the only person to have held the position of Assistant Secretary of State for two different regions of the world (Asia from 1977 to 1981 and Europe from 1994 to 1996).
