Machine Guns Quotes
On that single day, 27,000 French Soldiers were killed in battle. The French Generals, with little understanding of the then modern weapons and their power, sent whole divisions on a bayonet charge and they were just mowed down by the latest German versions of machine guns. They assumed that if they failed to take a German position defended by machine guns, it was only because they had not sent enough men to make the charge. Each successive failure produced another charge with even more men.
He was subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee where he was accused of being a Communist which he eloquently denied starting with this statement. He died of a heart attack 3 days later. However, most historians agree that White passed classified information to the Russians. He was accused of being a Communist, but there was never any evidence of that. Some people believe that he was a spy for the Russians and committed espionage, but others disagree observing that White was very much his own man and felt that much information that was classified never should have been. White substituted his own judgment, it is believed, about what could be given to the Russians for the security system. He was an admirer of what Russian socialism had accomplished economically, educationally and medically since the 1917 revolution deposing the Czar. Russia had been a valuable military ally, which had taken the brunt of both military and civilian casualties in WWII. White’s economics were certainly not Marxist but very much Keynesian.
Muste raised money for the strikers and was soon made the executive secretary of the strike committee for 25,000 strikers. A. J. placed himself at the head of the picket line and was beat to exhaustion by the police and arrested. Several weeks into the strike, the police tried to provoke violence by lining up machine guns and having a labor spy urge the strikers to overcome them.
In large warfare at the time and in the American Civil War disease was responsible for more death than weapons. The logic is that with fewer troops necessary, there would be less disease. However, the reality was that machine guns never did reduce the number of soldiers—it only produced more lethal soldiers.
