Just As Much Quotes
The great wall of China was built just as much to keep the Chinese in as to keep the barbarians out.
The Chinese 1st Emperor had unified China by brutal war. His troops and government were more sophisticated than the others and they were particularly sophisticated about drafting soldiers, forcing the civilian population to manufacture weapons for the huge military and to levy and collect taxes. Many people in the conquered provinces fled from China. The Emperor responded to the outside ‘barbarians’ and the fleeing Chinese by connecting the many walls that existed on the Chinese border into one unified wall as much to keep his labor force in China as to keep others out.
In WWII, under the puppet Vichy Government, the Nazi’s demanded that all the French Banks provide the names, addresses, and holders of all bank accounts that were held by Jews or suspected Jews. Nazi agents visited the French Bank officials and threatened them if they did not comply. There were 5 American Banks doing business in France: J.P. Morgan, Chase Bank, Guarantee Trust, the Bank of the City of New York and American Express. Their bank account information was disgracefully turned over to the Nazis for fear of losing future business. The Nazis, in addition to murdering over 70,000 French Jews looted over $90 million worth of Jewish property including the money in the American banks. The American banks continued to cooperate with the French Vichy Government and the Nazis until American law made it illegal. The American Banks and their accounts in question however may not at the time have been controlled by the American owners. American Express, for example, had liquidated its interests in 1941 and transferred its accounts to French interests who appear to have been in control at the time of the disgraceful turnover or the records.
The nation was facing the scourge of McCarthyism. Senator Smith was the most courageous member of the Senate in denouncing the lying demagogue of her own party who was so powerful at the time—Joseph R. McCarthy. At the same time, there were some communists trying to undermine the values or the nation as well as the fascists. Smith was one of the first to recognize the danger of both.
