International Leaders Quotes
Some comments by international leaders:
Henry Kissinger
"Military Men Are Just Dumb, Stupid, Animals To Be Used As Pawns In
Foreign Policy" — Henry Kissinger
Israel’s Wars
“Israel has won all the wars it has fought with the Arabs
to date, and will win the next one. But in the end, they cannot survive in a
sea of hate.” – Charles De Gaulle – Source Nixon, Leaders P66
Japan’s no-war Constitution
“Article 9, therefore, had been a well-meaning mistake. I
[Nixon] said. ‘We made a mistake because we misjudged the intentions of the
Soviet leaders.’.” – Richard Nixon (Leaders P 121)
“I expressed my firm convictions that “Japan must not
become an economic giant and remain a military and political pigmy.” As he had
in 1953, Yoshida politely but firmly turned my suggestion aside.” - Richard
Nixon, – Source Nixon, Leaders P125
Land Reform Impact on Communism in Japan
IN 1945 most Japanese farmers tilled fields owned by
absentee land-lords. Yoshida’s government devised a sweeping land reforms
bill. By 1950 90% of Japan’s farmland was owned by the farmers themselves. The
MacArthur land reforms gave farmers both a sense of individual worth and an
incentive to produce more. After it was completed, communism in Japan became
almost entirely an urban phenomenon because Macarthur had stolen the Communists
big rural issue. It is also ironic that the Taiwan “economic miracle”, which
can be compared in character if not in size to the Japanese “miracle”, was made
possible in large by Chang Kai-shek’s liberal land reform program.” – Richard
Nixon, – Source Nixon, Leaders P 115
Mac Arthur’s advice to Nixon – Cut Taxes, Balance Budget, Go Back To Gold
Standard:
“During the 1950’s and early 1960’s, when it was clear
MacArthur would probably never hold another public office, he often lectured me
about balancing the budget, cutting taxes, and going back to the gold
standard.” - Richard Nixon, – Source Nixon, Leaders P129
“In the Second World War, all the nations of Europe lost;
two were defeated.” – Charles De Gaulle. – Source Nixon, Leaders.
Carlile:
RE Any government conducting it’s diplomacy in secret is
inevitably drawn into corruption sooner or later.
British policies, he thought, were inspired not by the
collective morality of the people, but by the arcane and artificial fictions of
a tiny elite. An individual Englishman would never open another mans private
mail. But it was in the nature of aristocratic government that even honorable
men would behave in political life in ways they would find reprehensive in
private – P 125
Anglomania – Re Italian Mazzini when living in London in
1844 and the government was opening his mail – Carlile wrote a letter to the
Times cpomapring about government spying to the actions of a pickpocket.
Karl Marx:
Karl Marx’s father, a lawyers living in Trier, England,
came from a line of rabbis and changed his name from Herochel to Heinrich, he
grew up on Voltaire and Lessing and converted to Christianity to cope with the
anti Jewish laws of 1816 in England.
Karl Marx lived in London from 1849 to 1883.
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