Sigmund Munz Quotes
As once upon a time the Turkish peril was halted by the walls of the city of Vienna, so does the maintenance of order and economic well-being in Austria, which is the center of Europe, constitute a dam to prevent the west from being flooded by the gospel of Bolshevism which now threatens from Moscow.
Sigmund Munz, 1859-1934, Jewish Austrian Scholar and Political Writer, “Austria's Relations with Germany and Italy”, Foreign Affairs, March 1923
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The British suspected that the Turks of Anatolia were complicit with Bolshevism
In retrospect, the Marshall plan was so successful that most people forget or never knew that there was much domestic and foreign opposition and criticism. See {615799}.
Leval was an appeaser and a collaborator with the Nazi’s. He led the government in name but the Germans really controlled the country. His actions killed tens of thousands of French men and women by turning them over to the Germans. After the Germans were defeated in WWII, Leval was shot as a traitor by the Free French forces.
Hoover in his early career led the American relief effort to feed the starving of Europe after World War I. In addition to the major purpose of feeding people:
The Red Scare had already reached most conservatives and Truman and most others had not yet been affected by the fear of Communism that so many people had through the 1970s.
This quotation illustrates White’s extreme naivety about Stalinist Russia. At the time the Soviet Union had been backing communist insurgencies blatantly in China, Greece, and Korea for example. Most historians agree that White passed classified information to the Russians. He was accused of being a Communist, but there was never any evidence of that. Some people believe that he was a spy for the Russians and committed espionage, but others disagree observing that White was very much his own man and felt that much information that was classified never should have been. White substituted his own judgment, it is believed, about what could be given to the Russians. He was an admirer of what Russian socialism had accomplished economically, educationally and medically since the 1917 revolution deposing the Czar. Russia had been a valuable military ally, which had taken the brunt of both military and civilian casualties in WWII. White’s economics were certainly not Marxist but very much Keynesian. He was subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee where he was accused of being a Communist which he denied (see {634907}). He died of a heart attack 3 days later.
Ironically, at the time she wrote this column, Mrs. Roosevelt was being accused of being a communist by some Southerners who associated her strong views against racism and segregation. Some in the North thought she was a communist because of her active role in the New Deal, Yet here she was, willing to use military force to prevent Soviet expansion.
The issue of unilateral or multilateral foreign policy efforts faced America after WWII.
Vladimir Lenin
at the end of World War I 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor
Wright, like so many idealists had been a communist before the reality about Stalin and Russia was public knowledge. He then became a virulent anti-Communist and appeared in many international gatherings of Black artists and intellectuals. However, he felt that the CIA funding of an organization called the American Society for African Culture was undermining his message and integrity.’
The "iron curtain" phrase was used here a few months before Winston Churchill's famous speech using it {411311}. Also, it appears to have been used earlier than that by Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels in Das Reich. And Viscountess Snowden used the phrase in her memoirs of a Past WWI trip to Russia {616546}. It is not known whether Troubridge or Churchill were familiar with those works.
