The High Cost Of Vengeance

Author : Freda Utley
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019369264

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This is a powerful and thought-provoking book about the human cost of vengeance. Utley explores the psychological and moral dimensions of revenge, and argues that it ultimately leads to more harm than good. Her insights are as relevant today as they were when the book was first published in 1948. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Freda Utley
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787205888

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The High Cost of Vengeance by Freda Utley Pdf

In 1948, Readers Digest posted English writer and political activist Freda Utley to Germany. The result was The High Cost of Vengeance, first published in 1949, in which Utley critically discusses and analyses the Allied occupation policies, including the expulsion of millions of Germans from European nations after World War II and the Morgenthau plan. She explores the United States’ treatment of German captives, the Allied use of slave labour in France and the Soviet Union, and the Nuremberg Trials legal processes.

Author : Freda Winifred Utley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1911417177

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FOLLOWING WORLD WAR I FRANCE AND BRITAIN REFUSED TO LISTEN to the statesmen who said that you can have peace or vengeance, not both. They broke their armistice pledge to Germany that peace would be made on the basis of President Wilson's Fourteen Points and "the principles of settlement enunciated" by the American President. They continued the starvation blockade of Germany for six months after the Armistice, in order to force the German democrats who had taken over the government to sign a dictated peace. Having promised a peace without annexations or indemnities, they deprived Germany of territory and imposed a crushing reparations burden on the newly established Weimar Republic. Having promised general disarmament they disarmed Germany without disarming themselves. The victors refused even to discuss the terms of peace with the vanquished who had surrendered on stated conditions which were not fulfilled, and in general dis- credited democracy in German eyes by associating it with broken pledges, national humiliation, and economic distress.

Author : Kevin Slack
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781641773041

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War on the American Republic by Kevin Slack Pdf

Americans often use the words progressive, liberal, and radical more or less interchangeably, without reference to their place in our nation’s history. Kevin Slack clarifies the distinct aims of the movements they represent, and weighs their consequences for the American Republic. Each of the three movements rejected older republican principles of governance in favor of an administrative state. But there were substantial differences between Teddy Roosevelt’s Anglo-Protestant progressive social gospelers, who battled trusts and curbed immigration; Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson’s secular liberals, who initiated government-business partnership and a civil rights agenda; and the 1960s radicals, who protested corporate influence in the Great Society, liberal hypocrisy on race and gender, and the war in Vietnam. Each movement arose in criticism of what came before. Following the revolution of the 1960s, elites on both left and right turned against the industrial middle class to erect an oligarchy at home and advance globalization abroad. Each side claimed to serve the interests of disadvantaged or underrepresented groups. Radicals ensconced themselves in bureaucracy and academia to fulfill their vision of social justice for women and minorities, while neoliberal elites promoted monopoly finance, open borders, and outsourcing of jobs to benefit consumers. The administrative state had become a global American empire, but the neoliberals’ economic and military failures precipitated a crisis of legitimacy. In the “great awokening” that began under Barack Obama, neoliberal elites, including establishment conservatives, openly broke with the populist base of the Republican Party, embraced identity politics, and used Covid-19 and myths of insurrection to strip away the rights of American citizens. Today, an incompetent kleptocracy is draining the wealthiest and most powerful people in history, thus eroding the foundations of its own empire. This book traces the rise and fall of the American Republic.

Author : édéric Mégret,Immi Tallgren
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108488181

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The Dawn of a Discipline by édéric Mégret,Immi Tallgren Pdf

The history of international criminal justice told through the revealing stories of some of its primary intellectual figures.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Administrative procedure
ISBN : UCAL:B3603021

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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2016 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Communism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024410107

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Institute of Pacific Relations by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1214 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Communist parties
ISBN : MINN:31951D01084143T

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Institute of Pacific Relations by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws Pdf

Investigates alleged communist control of the publications and international information exchange programs of the Institute of Pacific Relations. Also investigates alleged communist attempts to influence U.S. Far East policy. Includes discussion of Communist Party activities in Nazi Germany.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1620 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117865928

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State Department Employee Loyalty Investigation by United States. Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Pdf

Author : Jacob Heilbrunn
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781324094678

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America Last: The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators by Jacob Heilbrunn Pdf

A leading journalist and public intellectual explains the long, disturbing history behind the American Right’s embrace of foreign dictators, from Kaiser Wilhelm and Mussolini to Putin and Orban. Why do Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, and much of the far Right so explicitly admire the murderous and incompetent Russian dictator Vladimir Putin? Why is Ron DeSantis drawing from Victor Orbán’s illiberal politics for his own policies as governor of Florida—a single American state that has more than twice the population of Orbán’s entire nation, Hungary? In America Last, Jacob Heilbrunn, a highly respected observer of the American Right, demonstrates that the infatuation of American conservatives with foreign dictators—though a striking and seemingly inexplicable fact of our current moment—is not a new phenomenon. It dates to the First World War, when some conservatives, enthralled with Kaiser Wilhelm II, openly rooted for him to defeat the forces of democracy. In the 1920s and 1930s, this affinity became even more pronounced as Hitler and Mussolini attracted a variety of American admirers. Throughout the Cold War, the Right evinced a fondness for autocrats such as Francisco Franco and Augusto Pinochet, while some conservatives wrote apologias for the Third Reich and for apartheid South Africa. The habit of mind is not really about foreign policy, however. As Heilbrunn argues, the Right is drawn to what it perceives as the impressive strength of foreign dictators, precisely because it sees them as models of how to fight against liberalism and progressivism domestically. America Last is a guide for the perplexed, identifying and tracing a persuasion—or what one might call the “illiberal imagination”—that has animated conservative politics for a century now. Since the 1940s, the Right has railed against communist fellow travelers in America. Heilbrunn finally corrects the record, showing that dictator worship is an unignorable tradition within modern American conservatism—and what it means for us today.

Author : John Denson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351484459

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The Costs of War by John Denson Pdf

The greatest accomplishment of Western civilization is arguably the achievement of individual liberty through limits on the power of the state. In the war-torn twentieth century, we rarely hear that one of the main costs of armed conflict is long-term loss of liberty to winners and losers alike. Beyond the obvious and direct costs of dead and wounded soldiers, there is the lifetime struggle of veterans to live with their nightmares and their injuries; the hidden economic costs of inflation, debts, and taxes; and more generally the damages caused to our culture, our morality, and to civilization at large. The new edition is now available in paperback, with a number of new essays. It represents a large-scale collective effort to pierce the veils of myth and propaganda to reveal the true costs of war, above all, the cost to liberty.Central to this volume are the views of Ludwig von Mises on war and foreign policy. Mises argued that war, along with colonialism and imperialism, is the greatest enemy of freedom and prosperity, and that peace throughout the world cannot be achieved until the central governments of the major nations become limited in scope and power. In the spirit of these theorems by Mises, the contributors to this volume consider the costs of war generally and assess specific corrosive effects of major American wars since the Revolution. The first section includes chapters on the theoretical and institutional dimensions of the relationship between war and society, including conscription, infringements on freedom, the military as an engine of social change, war and literature, and the right of citizens to bear arms. The second group includes reconsiderations of Lincoln and Churchill, an analysis of the anti-interventionist idea in American politics, a discussion of the meaning of the "just war," an assessment of how World War I changed the course of Western civilization, and finally two eyewitness accounts of the true horrors of actual combat by

Author : John J. Dunphy
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476674742

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Unsung Heroes of the Dachau Trials by John J. Dunphy Pdf

The U.S. Army 7708 War Crimes Group investigated atrocities committed in Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. These young Americans--many barely out of their teens--gathered evidence, interviewed witnesses, apprehended suspects and prosecuted defendants at trials held at Dachau. Their work often put them in harm's way--some suspects facing arrest preferred to shoot it out. The War Crimes Group successfully prosecuted the perpetrators of the Malmedy Massacre, in which 84 American prisoners of war were shot by their German captors; and Waffen-SS commando Otto Skorzeny, aptly described as "the most dangerous man in Europe." Operation Paperclip, however, placed some war criminals--scientists and engineers recruited by the U.S. government--beyond their reach. From the ruins of the Third Reich arose a Nazi underground that preyed on Americans--especially members of the Group.

Author : Steven P. Remy
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674977228

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The Malmedy Massacre by Steven P. Remy Pdf

During the Battle of the Bulge, Waffen SS soldiers shot 84 American prisoners near Malmedy, Belgium—the deadliest mass execution of U.S. soldiers during World War II. Drawing on newly declassified documents, Steven Remy revisits the massacre and the most infamously controversial war crimes trial in American history, to set the record straight.

Author : Richard M. Fried
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538145784

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A Genius for Confusion by Richard M. Fried Pdf

This new biography of Joseph R. McCarthy shows how the Wisconsin Senator’s campaign against American Communists prized sensation above truth. McCarthy often put aside his hunt for Reds while he pursued his anti-communist critics. He fought foes not just with noisy accusations but with covert gossip. He was gullible enough that some con artists managed to lure him on wild goose chases. The man who charged others with being “dupes” was sometimes one himself. Historian Fried’s book builds on over a decade’s research in a multitude of sources, many of them newly opened—not just McCarthy’s own papers but those of forty-seven Senate colleagues, plus records of journalists, observers, and activists. It brings to light such theatrical episodes as a CIA “op” against McCarthy as well as Joe’s quixotic search for Soviet security chief Lavrenti Beria in Spain. The resulting multi-focal perspective on the political and institutional setting in which McCarthy operated with such abandon is full of drama.

Author : United States. Congress Senate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2830 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:35112104267580

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Hearings by United States. Congress Senate Pdf