Political Antagonism Quotes
The ride was the 1933 inaugural where the outgoing President rode down Pennsylvania Avenue with his successor. Roosevelt had tried to engage Hoover in conversation and Hoover refused. For years after that FDR used to tell the story and would imitate Hoover with grunts and facial contortions.
There was a small but virulent movement of fascistic right wingers who formed secret alliances with other groups to keep America from aiding England in defending against the Nazis and to stop the Roosevelt New Deal. Senior military officers were recruited for extra legal activities including a possible takeover of the government. Some Charismatic Catholic and Protestant demagogues were leading these movements and many churches spoke out against these potentially unconstitutional revolutionary activities. This was one of the clearest statements of patriotism.
3rd Viscount Palmerston. Julius Jacob von Haynau, 1786–1853, was a vicious Austrian General who had committed many atrocities in Italy and Hungary which today would be considered War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity. He even had women publicly flogged who were heard saying anything sympathetic about the freedom fighters who the General suppressed brutally. On a visit to London, he was attacked and beaten by draymen at the Barclay & Perkins brewery, which he was visiting. (When Giuseppe Garibaldi came to England in 1864, he insisted on visiting the brewery to thank "the men who flogged Haynau.") The Austrian government complained to Queen Victoria about his treatment and the quotation is from the Foreign Minister’s letter reporting the facts to the queen. A letter of apology was sent by Temple to Austria, but it was worded in such a way that it was clear that the English government felt that the beating should never have taken place but it was not morally unjustified. This even angered the Austrians more. Haynau was known and despised by military men the world over. See {630983} for an American use of Haynau’s name.
