Because they wanted a sympathetic ally in power. So I think it really was the opening act of World War II.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDAnd tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others’ lives.
More Adam Hochschild Quotes
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All of us living in today’s world are facing an enormous crisis – arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced
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It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
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Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is an example of this trend.
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After all, where else in the world at this point did you have Americans in uniform who were being bombed by Nazi planes four years before the U.S. entered World War II?
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I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
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How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth
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Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.
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To bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today’s globe.
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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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Hitler and Mussolini jumped in on the side of Francisco Franco and his Spanish nationalists, sent them vast amounts of military aid, airplanes, tanks and Mussolini sent 80,000 ground troops as well.
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You’ve got politicians in power or vying for power who are taking tactics and elements of their appeal from the playbook of fascism.
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And tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others’ lives.
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I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to portray them as the human beings that they are.
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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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