Harold Harmsworth Quotes
Germany is the new Sparta. The same spirit of national discipline and self-sacrifice which earned for a few thousand inhabitants of a small Greek city-state an enduring place in history is being reproduced here by 67,000,000 of what are in some ways the most intelligent, industrious and high-spirited, and hardy people in the world. The last two years have witnessed here a political process as profound and far-reaching in its effects as the French Revolution. Germany has set a new pace of human endeavor. She has acquired a national momentum without precedent in political dynamics.
Harold Harmsworth, 1868-1940, [Lord Rothermere], English Newspaper Publisher, Pro Nazi Editorials in the 1930s
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Executed by the English for his part in the Easter Uprising.
This speech to over 100,000 people galvanized the Indian nationalists They had been asking the British to change the constitution to give India more independence. Churchill was opposed to any policy that would diminish the British Empire, but needed the Indians as men of India served in the British Army in every major theater of WWII. So instead of saying "No" Churchill held out the possibility but at a later time. He argued that it was inopportune to alter the Constitution in the midst of a world war.
The Germans allied themselves with the Islamic insurgency of the day as a strategic maneuver. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem broadcast propaganda from Nazi radio in Berlin and was dispatched to organize Muslim fighters in Iraq. Fascism was introduced into the Middle East and the Arabs and Persians saw it as a natural extension of their authoritarian and highly prescriptive forms of religious and civil government. 60 years later, there would be Islamic Fascists throughout the Middle East in control or vying for control of many of the countries.
This is yet another example of people growing rapidly in order to meet the needs and demands of the time.
1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley. Before the 2nd World War
On creating a sense of national unity and destiny:
Hitler and his Nazis had initiated a series of political murders of Nazi outspoken opponent. This included an ex-Chancellor--Kurt von Schleicher—and many others. Von Papen, was an apologist for Hitler and the Nazis and his support was a big factor in the Nazi takeover of Germany as he was a noble and deeply respected by conservatives who had real concerns about Hitler and National Socialism.
In one of the most unusual revolutions in world history, Brazil became independent from Portugal via a revolution led by the son of the Portuguese King and heir to the throne, Pedro I. Ironically the King of Portugal, John VI, in this famous quote, encouraged his son to lead the revolution. There were strong separatist sentiment in Brazil and the King thought it would be better to have an independent Brazil lead by a member of his family.
At the time the Arabs, anticipating an English pullout of Palestine, were engaged in constant acts of terror to drive the Jews out with the British. The Jews however wanted to create a Jewish state within Palestine but had few men and weapons, needing to depend on the British for protection which was spotty at best. Wingate persuaded his superior to allow him to set up and train a Jewish Defense Force which was the origin of the Israeli Army.
Song traditionally sung at the end of British Labour Party meetings
This song was written during the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte when the possibility of a French invasion was on the minds of the British.
1st Earl of Beaconsfield
1st Earl of Beaconsfield
Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere, PC was a leading British newspaper proprietor who owned Associated Newspapers Ltd. He is best known, like his brother Alfred Harmsworth, later Viscount Northcliffe, for the development of the Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror. Rothermere was a pioneer of popular journalism.
