Economic Aid Quotes
Most American policy makers have believed that food should not by used as a weapon on moral and humitarian grounds. Butz was an ultra-conservative who were among the few that were willing to use food to achieve political opbjectives even it it meant starving people in other countries.
All the objections that Coolidge had in his veto message, were not convincing to modern Presidents and members of Congress as well as well the American people. Our Agricultural policy has had all these elements for years now.
The Prime Minister feared an insurrection if his economy collapsed and had shared that fear with the U. S. Ambassador. the informal response was that he should settle his dispute and negotiations with Great Britain over the oil contracts before the U. S. would move. He then sent this letter. Mohammad Mosaddegh had been elected President of Iraq. However, he was left leaning in the midst of the Cold War and some of our policy strategists thought that he could hurt the U. S. interests which were large there. Iran had huge oil reserves and American and British companies were active in operating the oil drilling and export. The Shah, with CIA support, fired Mosaddegh, but that backfired and the Shah had to flee the country. This was when Smith sent this note to the President. We were prepared to try and work with Mosaddegh. However, our chief ally did not agree and wanted to oust Mosaddegh. At the request of the British MI6 intelligence service, the CIA implemented a “spontaneous” coup d’etat to overthrow the popularly elected Iranian President Mohammad Mosaddegh. This enabled the Shah to return and take over. Ironically, although he was anti-Communist, he threatened the American and British Oil Companies and forced them to “renegotiate” their contracts with Iran and pay the Shah more money. The Shah was very unpopular and over the years the Iranians who opposed the Shah, blamed the United States for the fact that Mosaddegh had been overthrown and the Shah returned to power. See {637008} and {637007}.
When budget cutting was deemed necessary, the Governor was a strong voice for not cutting services to the most needy.
This statement was a total reverse of his predecessor’s policy. Hoover stubbornly refused to consider any direct relief for workers on the philosophical ground that it would weaken their character, make them dependent, and provide benefits for the people who were not working so the motivation to work would be lessened. When FDR pronounced this on the radio, it dramatically reversed U. S. policy and gave many people hope that the government might do something about the depression rather than just wait out the business cycle.
