National Fate Quotes
Lindbergh, a great aviator, was a Fascist who was a great admirer and supporter of Hitler and Mussolini. By this time, even Lindbergh had seen much of the German aggression, and his opposition to the war was on the pragmatic ground that we could not win. He thought that democracy was too unsuited to a country being a major power.
This was the first time a Cabinet Member had ever addressed Congress. He had just concluded an alliance with Soviet Russia for fighting Hitler and Japan in the Second World War. Some were uneasy about an alliance with the Communist state. However, the Congress approved overwhelmingly.
There was a great deal of war profiteering during the American Revolution and Gerard thought that this was a negative indicator of prospects for America. Things actually got worse during the war of 1812 where there was war profiteering also and many in New England profited from selling supplies to the British enemy. Unfortunately, taking economic advantage of a wartime crisis has accompanied virtually every war in which we have become engaged. In WWII, the automobile industry virtually blackmailed the government into high profits if they would produce war material instead of cars, and the rapaciousness of Haliburton in the Iraq war became a national scandal. See George Washington’s comment on the time {624228}.
