Foreign Influence Quotes
At the time Ford was considering running for President and some of the American right wing extremists were encouraging him to do so. Hitler had demonstrated how his fascist storm troopers would intimidate a major city as he had done it first in Munich and later in most other German cities. At the time, Ford and his supporters were delighted to have the support of such an important modern world leader as Hitler. The American Nazi Party's first president, Heinz Spanknoebel, was an employee at the Ford Motor Company. Fritz Julius Kuhn, leader of the pro-Nazi German-American Bund, worked at Ford off and on. As Hitler’s practices and policies were more and more exposed, and WWII began, this quotation made any political role for Henry Ford very difficult. Ford was the only American named in Hitler’s maniacal book Mein Kampf. He describes Ford as the only American who is not controlled by Hitler’s paranoid view of the Jewish conspiracy. Ford himself was an anti-Semite. See related quotes. Hitler awarded Ford the German Eagle Order Medal—the only American to have ever received it. It was reserved for those who assisted the Nazi Party outside of Germany. Benito Mussolini was another recipient.
Harrison, then a young Captain, was concerned about the French, British and Spanish agents "plotting" in the United States:
What is particularly interesting about this passage is that a Middle Eastern contemporary historian and commentator compared circumstances to political events with the Umayyads and the Abbisids to those in Persia and Rome. Chosroes (Khosrow) was a Persian King who had his brothers murdered, and Caesar was viewed as a tyrant. Even then, the history of politics, in one country influenced events and attitudes in others,
He insisted that Turks wear hats rather than the class-specific traditional headwear. Some Turks preferred the word “modernized” to “civilized.”
The Italians backed down and gave up their demand for territory, settling for a favorable trade treaty.
Germany was undergoing a hyper-inflation as the result of a mismanaged economy and the consequence of the First World War. Hitler immediately blamed America and the financers and profiteers. This has been the pattern of almost every government since then that was undergoing a monetary crisis of inflation or deflation—blame the international financers and the Americans.
He supported the Presidential concept as the least worst option.
Johnson strongly urged white contact with the Indians in the Indian communities, He himself married an Indian Woman.
“Young Chinese” referred to members of a Chinese political party—Young China—consisting mainly of Western-Educated young Chinese who were a strong force for change, but did not have the experience, money, or power connections to unify the country or operate the government. The Japanese watched Chinese politics very carefully as China was seen as a potential rival or a teritory of conquest.
