1930s: Eight U.S. banks financed German rearmament. Henry Ford received an award from Hitler for designing Germany’s new tank assembly lines. Despite his bellicose rhetoric, Hitler was viewed favorably as a useful anti-communist, just as Zelensky today serves as the anti-Putin.
In 1933, Wm Dodd became US ambassador in Berlin and began reporting on what he viewed as “Nazi’s ill treatment of Jews.” His reports were ignored. When he went to Washington and met with FDR, he was told, Germany’s treatment of Jews was “an internal matter.” When Dodd persisted, he was fired in 1937. [Read that again: “He was fired.”]
Today, Francesca Albanese, Italian legal scholar and human rights advocate, has repeatedly appealed to the international community to help stop the slaughter in #Gaza, urging international intervention to protect Palestinians from Israel’s brutal, unlawful occupation.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer and dissident, wrote: “In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand-fold in the future…”
Francesca Albanese’s efforts to save the Palestinians mirrors William Dodd’s attempts 100 years ago to alert Washington to the growing danger to Germany’s Jews.
In both cases, however, the U.S. and the collective West, then and now, looked the other way, even prosecuting those who dare sound the alarm.
Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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