| Ralph M. Faris - 1977 - 220 páginas
...days later Senator Harry Truman (New York Times, June 24, 1941) stated in his usual unprincipled way: "If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help...and if Russia is winning, we ought to help Germany." One capitalist plan, then, being represented by Truman, was to destroy both enemies of the Allied imperialists.... | |
| John Lewis Gaddis - 1982 - 452 páginas
...this after Hitler attacked the Soviet Union in Jone 1941: "1f we see that Germany is winning the war we ought to help Russia, and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany and in that way let them kill as many as possible."4t But Truman at the time was an obscure Missouri senator:... | |
| Robert Moats Miller - 1985 - 637 páginas
...endless road of "perpetual war for * At the time of the invasion, Senator Truman took the position: "If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help...and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany." A year earlier Reinhold Niebuhr had written, "We are not willing to see young Americans die to protect... | |
| Walter Isaacson, Evan Thomas - 1997 - 852 páginas
...Hitler had invaded the Soviet Union, Senator Truman had casually commented to a New York Times reporter: "If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help...Germany and that way let them kill as many as possible. " Shortly after becoming President, he noted in his diary, "I've no faith in any totalitarian state,... | |
| Arthur A. Stein - 1990 - 236 páginas
...and so reflect malevolence and competition. As Harry Truman said when he was a senator in June 1941, "If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help...Germany and that way let them kill as many as possible"; New York Times, June 24, 1941, p. 7. Divide-and-conquer strategies often entail seemingly beneficent... | |
| George Sirgiovanni - 242 páginas
...ten. twenty years."60 Meanwhile, other Americans reacted to the news with unqualified exhiliration. "If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia," Senator Harry Truman gloated, "and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany and that way let them... | |
| Thomas G. Paterson - 1992 - 326 páginas
...in Truman, Truman, p. 358. 39. Truman also said in 1941: "If we see that Germany is winning the war we ought to help Russia, and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and in that way let them kill as many as possible, although I don't want to see Hitler victorious under... | |
| Noam Chomsky - 1993 - 340 páginas
...Europe. Truman went much further. When Germany attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941, he commented that "If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help...Germany and that way let them kill as many as possible." By 1943, the US began to reinstate Fascist collaborators and sympathizers in Italy, a pattern that... | |
| Maurice Isserman - 1982 - 332 páginas
...Administration undoubtedly shared the sentiments expressed by Missouri senator Harry Truman on June 23: "If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help...help Germany and that way let them kill as many as possible."8 Roosevelt felt differently, and at a press conference on June 24 pledged to send "all the... | |
| Cambridge University Press - 1993 - 212 páginas
...attrition might not be a bad thing. As Harry Truman would argue: if Germany is winning, "we should help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany." Appeasement turned to war not because Western patience had waned, but because the Germans and Soviets... | |
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