Sabotage & Saboteurs Quotes
Vladimir Lenin. The Russian solution to the problem was to form the Cheka—secret police. See {613732}.
of the German tactics of Blitzkrieg Goering, Hitler and the other leading Nazis were quite open about their military aggression. Terrorism was admittedly used to persuade the next nation Germany would attack to capitulate rapidly.
This was the directive that gave the CIA authority for its many covert operations.
He was discussing the Presidential Primary Race.
The Nazis occupied the cities, but the partisans survived in the mountains. The resistance was ferocious and very effective. From a German Soldier’s point of view, the Yugoslav front was the most dangerous assignment where his odds of being killed was even greater than the Russian front.
This report was submitted to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who accepted the recommendation and signed Executive Order 9066. The Japanese on the West Coast were then rounded up and interned by DeWitt in what was one of the lowest and disgraceful points in American history. A national apology was made 34 years later. See {635792}. One of the aspects of the case that made it so disgraceful is that these facts that a senior General attested to the President were not true. And tragically, the General was aware of that fact when he made his aware of the risk than he, so be it. The reality was that the FBI and the Signal Corps had investigated these charges and found that there was not a singe case of sabotage by American Citizens of Japanese origin and there were no cases of signals to the Japanese. Some garbled radio report and recommendations. However, he was an inveterate racist and believed that the Japanese American citizens could not be trusted, and if some eggazeration was needed to convince people less messages were traced to American military trainees under De Witt’s command who while in training had send messages that were not decipherable. For examples of De Witt’s racism. See {587961}. and {587962}.
In 1927 Astor with other wealthy Americans (including Kermit Roosevelt, Marshall Field III, David Bruce and Winthrop Aldrich) founded their own private espionage agency, ROOM, which was utilized heavily by FDR:
This was a great victory for the Victor Berger wing of the party. They purged the violence advocates and communists from the party. Despite this, a few right wingers call any socialist a communist and a revolutionary.
His sentiment was also that of president Johnson although there were several of the President's aides who argued that the public was entitled to know the kind of character that Nixon had, his dirty tricks, and the extent that he would go to win an election. He had through intermediaries persuaded the South Vietnamese President to not attent the proposed Vietnam Peace Talks by promising that after Nexon was elected President he would hold our for a much better deal for the South Vietnamese Government that was generally bery corrupt and incompetent. For Rusk the issue was one of the moral tone of a Presidential Election. Making any accusation just before the election does not give the public to contemplate the information, let the opponent defend himself and the public to weigh in. The integrity of the election process was to Rusk and many others more important than who won or lost. In the hyperpolerized atmosphere 50 years later there were few American Politicians who would not use this kind of information as who won was then considered much more imnportant than the integrity of the election.
The Proclamation was a belated admission of the disgraceful internment of loyal Japanese Americans during WWII. See {587961}. “Evacuation” was the euphemism for rounding up Japanese American citizens and putting them in internment camps. Not a single Japanese American was involved in any effort to sabotage or undermine the United States. The same cannot be said about the German Americans where a few did work against U. S. interests and yet the German-Americans were never rounded up. The explanation of the difference has been long debated. Racism was a part of it; California paranoia, another. And unfortunately, Japanese Americans owned very desirable land in California and when they could no longer make their payments some interests gobbled up the land and that was a motivation for some. Regardless, it was one of the low points in American history, and warranted this Presidential and national apology.
The National Park Service had traditionally estimated the crowd sizes of Washington DC events and protests and mad them public, After the Donald Tump Inaguration, they followed the usual procedure using the Internet and tweeting the size of the crowd. Howevert, the resultrs showed that the crowd for the Trump inaguaration crowd size was smaller than that of Barak Obama and even George W. Bush. Trump, very sinsitive to any thing that he believed diminished him, then as one of his early adminsiotrative acts as Chief Executive, ordered the the Park Service to stop doing any indpendent tweeting or other public statemetns about crowd size, He was particualry worried that the Women's March the Next Day would show the protesting women outdrawing his inaguaration. Baltz was specualting with other political journalists and pundits on how the Park Service bureaucracy would react to the heavy censorship over relative trivia imposed by the new president.
