National Protection Quotes
This quotation comes as a surprise to most readers who are amazed that the first American Legion National Commander described the role of the Legion as parallel to that of Mussolini and the Fascists of Italy. The early Legion leadership were themselves very right wing and fascistic themselves. See {640098} which shows that the Legion of that time was fomenting race hatred against Asians. The Legion leadership was not alone in its fascist tendencies; many of the right wingers from Charles Lindbergh to Joseph Kennedy—father of JFK were admirers of the fascists and advocated many of their practices. They even praised Hitler and Mussolini.
No male candidate had before or since been asked such a question.
Article 9 of the 1946 Japanese constitution that was imposed on Japan {604739} severely limited Japan’s military. Emperor Hirohito asked privately how Japan would be protected.
The Confederacy was looking to develop sympathy for the their cause, even within the Catholic Church which many Southern Protestants were very prejudiced against. Davis, himself, however, had attended Catholic schools as a youth and almost converted to Catholicism. Reading this letter today we are fascinated by the fact that Davis could ensure the Pope that “everyone” in the Confederacy could enjoy “temorial” rights and also the “free exercise of his religion.” Blacks, a very large proportion of the Southern population, could of course enjoy neither. Davis did not even cover himself by saying :every citizen”. He said “everyone” an absurdity even then, but Jefferson, an otherwise intelligent man, was so prejudiced that he did not consciously realize that he was lying to the Pope whom he respected greatly.
