The Doors Quotes
See also James Mathew for the analogy of British justice and the Ritz Hotel.
Trotsky had been assassinated by Stalin’s agents in Mexico. Trotsky supporters in the U. S. wanted to bring his body here for burial. President Roosevelt, acting upon the advice of Secretary Cordell Hull, refused permission as it would alienate Stalinist Russia, the then bastion of defense against Hitler and the Nazis. There is no better example of the old adage {592416}.
His Republican Party had filibustered more bills in the Senate then had been done previously in all of the Senate History together. Congress passed fewer bills in his first two years than any other Congress in history.
While Wilson is often thought of a humanist and a man committed to World peace and national rights of independence, he was also a committed economic imperialist. See {585454} for another example.
Note the use of the word “alien” to describe the American owners of newspapers, radio and TV stations. Oliver was a right wing, racist, paranoid, fanatic and extremist. His quotations are interesting because he often said in public what many right wing extremists believed but only said in private. Joseph McCarthy was a senator who suffered from alcoholism and claimed that there were communists throughout the government and the military. However, while he claimed there were all these communists, he was never able to identify them. After a few years of his antics, he was censured by the Senate and he died shortly thereafter. Oliver and a few other extremists believe that McCarthy was silenced by a national communist conspiracy. However, McCarthy was never silent on anything.