Peter Morgan Quotes
Authorised royal biographers are so straitjacketed, deferential, fawning, and unadventurous that they can only be after a knighthood. Or they're completely scurrilous and insolent, like Andrew Morton or Paul Burrell.
Morgan, Peter. "The Crown Jewels." The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 24 Dec. 2006.
Dickinson was one of the “moderates” of the day who tried to find middle ground in the dispute with England over the American Colonies. However, most people were already polarized and soon everyone was forced to choose one side or the other.
This law, passed by the President John Adams and the Federalists, became the political factor around which Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and others were to create the Democratic Republicans who not only ousted the Federalists but beat them so badly that the party disappeared and the Whig Party evolved. Under this law a person who criticized any facet of the Government publicly could be fined and imprisoned. The Act was unconstitutional but at that early stage of America, there were no Supreme Court precedents to go by and the power of the courts to nullify a law of Congress was not even clear. So it was never tested in the courts but finally was repealed.
Although it seems incredible to us today, thousands of people were arrested and prosecuted under the Espionage Act. The government particularly targeted leftists such as Eugene V. Debs, Bill Haywood, J. Philip Randolph, Victor Berger, John Reed, Max Eastman, and Emma Goldman. Debs was sentenced to 20 years in prison for criticizing the Act itself.
Trumbo was one of the Liberal victims of McCarthyism, the Red Scare and the Hollywood Blacklist because he refused to testify before the Congressional Committees regarding other people’s political beliefs and affiliations. He has long espoused Liberal causes and was extremely influential writing two Academy Award winning screenplays which were awarded to other screenwriters who were fronting for him as he was Blacklisted as a member of the original “Hollywood 10”. Today, convictions of that type would not stand Constitutional muster, but in those days it did. Trumbo had been a Communist for a while as he explained in {623794}.
Germany, as one of the wealthier and solvent countries in the Eurozone, as a de facto matter, had to help bail out Ireland when they bailed out the Anglo Irish Bank. See {635440}. This bank was one of many throughout the Common Market and the United States that obtained taxpayer bailouts based on information that was not correct. Merkel observed similarities of banks in the different nations in terms of their honesty, greed, and lack of ethics.
Peter Julian Robin Morgan, CBE is a British screenwriter and playwright. Morgan is best known for his work on stage and film and television. He's known as the playwright behind The Audience and Frost/Nixon and the screenwriter of The Queen (2006), Frost/Nixon (2008), The Damned United (2009), and Rush (2013). He is also known for writing the television films The Deal (2003), Longford (2006), and The Special Relationship (2009). He currently serves as the creator and showrunner of the Netflix series The Crown (2016–present).
