"Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit." ~ Edward R. Murrow, journalist (1908-1965)
The 1920s Republican administrations in Washington openly endorsed Mussolini, and with the aid of J. P. Morgan, they helped engineer hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of credits and loans to the Fascist government.
The relationship between Mussolini and the Republicans was so embarrassingly close that President Coolidge’s ambassador to Italy, Richard Washburn Child, helped ghostwrite Il Duce’s “autobiography," surely one of the odder and more (deliberately) forgotten moments in U.S. diplomatic history.
http://www.theorientalist.info/levs.php?location=New%20York&id=26/
"A man might die for honor or kill for arrogance. In broad daylight the terrible vision of sin might strike him down by the tavern well or back of his own corn crib. It was a land of the fiddle and whiskey, sweat and prayer, pride and depravity." ~ Robert Penn Warren
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
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