Bradley in DC
07-22-2007, 05:43 AM
http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/41160.html
David T. Beito
FDR's Witch-hunt Against Foreign Policy Critics
As we debate the impact of foreign policy on domestic liberty, it might be a good time to remember FDR's efforts to silence his non-interventionist critics. Probably the most blatant example was a letter he wrote to the editor of the Yale Review in 1939 targeting one of the leading opponents of his foreign policy, journalist John T. Flynn:
"I have watched John T. Flynn during these many years and the net anwer in my mind is that he has always, with practically no exception, been a destructive rather than a constructive force. Therefore, Q.E.D., John T. Flynn should be barred hereafter from the columns of any presentable daily paper, monthly magazine or national quarterly, such as the Yale Review.
Source: John E. Moser, Right Turn: John T. Flynn and the Transformation of American Liberalism New York: New York University Press, 2005), l04.
David T. Beito
FDR's Witch-hunt Against Foreign Policy Critics
As we debate the impact of foreign policy on domestic liberty, it might be a good time to remember FDR's efforts to silence his non-interventionist critics. Probably the most blatant example was a letter he wrote to the editor of the Yale Review in 1939 targeting one of the leading opponents of his foreign policy, journalist John T. Flynn:
"I have watched John T. Flynn during these many years and the net anwer in my mind is that he has always, with practically no exception, been a destructive rather than a constructive force. Therefore, Q.E.D., John T. Flynn should be barred hereafter from the columns of any presentable daily paper, monthly magazine or national quarterly, such as the Yale Review.
Source: John E. Moser, Right Turn: John T. Flynn and the Transformation of American Liberalism New York: New York University Press, 2005), l04.