"New York Times; Sep 25, 1945; pg. 21"
"Can you imagine the Times giving this advice today?"
Posted on 05/25/2004 3:16:07 PM PDT by ambrose
Nazism is rising again!
bump since i cant remember my nyt password
lots of good info on this topic here: http://thecr.blogspot.com/2003_11_01_thecr_archive.html
many excerpts (scanned) of newspapers from back then. things haven't changed - some state how the communist half of germany is doing so much better than the american occupied half.
I hate to say this, but it's not at all obvious to me that they ever really quit hating us. We won and should have annexed them.
,,, the Germans and French aren't happy at all right now. Brussels has worked out that they've now got 22 languages and over $US1b in translation costs per annum with the recently expanded EU.
The upshot is a recognition that English is now the universal language of commerce and computing and there simply isn't the required skill available to translate volumes of documents from [e.g.] Lithuanian to Maltese.
There's not a lot the marginalised Germans and French can do as they drown in their perception that if you speak English, you'll think American... it must be hell for them.
Q: Do you know what they call this sort of thing where I come from?
A: "Tough".
In post WWII Germany if you were a veteran, where you lived determined who you fought against during the war. If you lived in the west, you fought the Russians, if you lived in east you fought the Americans.
Maybe the Germans didn't like us but they sure as hell did not have to power to kill us. I was in Austria in October 1945. We were glad that Truman had ended the war in the Pacific and we could come home. What do the GIs have to do today to come home?
I spent a couple of years in Germany, in the early 1980s.
Those old enough to have actually lived through the "war" including an elderly man who was forced to fiddle for Hitler, were incredibly and embarassably grateful to uniformed troops of the USA.
Everyone else just looked to us as a meal ticket,ignored us, or tried to blow us up.
I really don't care what the entire rest of the world thinks of the the USA, as long as they fear us.
Fear is a healthy thing.It stops a lot of stupid decisions.
They criss-crossed?
Ummm. Is there an excerpt long enough for it to be meaningful?
You're right. Those who lived under the harsh conditions immediately following the war, through our aid, then the threat of Soviet invasion, were grateful. Their grandchildren have no memory...I hope we don't have to teach them also.
Sure. You wanna see it?
You pay.
Is Truman planning to keep American troops there until the Presidential election in 1948?
I found it. I was less concerned about paying than signing up.
All I wanted was three or four lines.
anyone want to give me a clue how to get into this article so as to read it??
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