Frank Scott Quotes

Broadly speaking, the bitterness, confusion and economic uncertainty which have cursed Europe in the last four years have grown out of the controversies over these stupendous unsettled matters. The agencies created for liquidating the peace settlement have unfortunately operated instead to solidify national hatreds and conflicts.

Once all the Germans were warlike and mean But that couldn't happen again We taught them a lesson in nineteen eighteen And they've hardly bothered us since then

I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.

In the 1930s, there were so many different conflicts going on between the British, the French, the Russians, the Germans, the Spaniards, the Romanians and so on.

World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.

I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in World War I.

In particular, the efforts to reestablish peace after the World War have been directed toward the formation of states and the regulation of their frontiers according to a consciously national program.

Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.

Please refresh my memory. Is it Upper or Lower Silesia that we are giving away?

The First World War not only destroyed European civilisation and the empires at its heart; its aftermath led to a second conflagration, the Second World War, which divided the continent until the end of the century.

Weimar lasted 14 years, the Third Reich only 12. Yet Weimar is always seen as a prelude to the Third Reich, which appears to have been created by Weimar's failures.

I wish we could see understanding the First World War as a European issue, or even a global one, and not a nationalistic one.

I was born on July 23rd, 1906, in Sarajevo in the province of Bosnia, which then belonged to the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy and later, in 1918, became part of Yugoslavia.

With the situation now, people might be intrigued to see how a country coped with war all those years ago.

It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

We experienced similar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s.

Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.

I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of world history that really interest me. I knew very extensively a lot about World War I.

The adverse economic events following the First World War turned me toward economics.

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.

Let me give you an idea of Fifties Britain. The war had ended ten years before, and most people had returned to their gardens and allotments hoping life would revert to how it was before the hostilities.

After World War II society had to settle back for a moment before it picked up the 20th century.

The American people want peace. They have long since ceased to talk of a hard or a soft peace for Germany.