Madeleine Albright - Fascism - A Warning

“pointy-headed college professors”: George Wallace, quoted in Ken Ringle, “The Enduring Symbol of an Era of Hate,” Washington Post , September 15, 1998.

“I was killing Fascists”: Wallace, quoted in Federico Finchelstein, From Fascism to Populism in History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017), 221.

“giant sucking sound”: Ross Perot, second presidential campaign debate, Richmond, Virginia, October 15, 1992.

“Goebbels would have just envied”: Perot, quoted in Jeff Noonan, “Lessons from History IV: Right Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort,” Jeff Noonan: Interventions and Evocations blog, www.jeffnoonan.org.

“To live in this process”: German citizen quoted in Milton Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981), 166–73.

“The time has come for a movement”: “Who We Are,” American Blackshirts, https://www.americanblackshirts.com/about.

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: THE RIGHT QUESTIONS

“Whoever fights with monsters”: Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil , trans. R. J. Hollingdale (London: Penguin, 1973; first published 1886), 102.

“we will be like all the other nations”: 1 Samuel 8:20 (New International Version).

“I will tell you what has carried me”: Adolf Hitler, quoted in Bullock, Hitler , 381.

“We know, deep down”: George W. Bush, Bush Institute National Forum on Freedom, Free Markets, and Security, Lincoln Center, New York, October 19, 2017.

“vacillating”: Senator Zachariah Chandler (R-Mich.), Senator William Fessenden (R-Maine), William M. Dickson (R-Ohio), quoted in Mark Bowden, “‘Idiot,’ ‘Yahoo,’ ‘Original Gorilla’: How Lincoln Was Dissed in His Day,” Atlantic , June 2013.

“As I sit in Qunu”: Nelson Mandela, UN General Assembly, September 21, 1998.

“The crowd doesn’t have to know”: Benito Mussolini, quoted in Smith, Mussolini, 126.

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Adams, John Quincy, 209

Afghanistan, 97, 111, 117

Africa, governments of, 113

See also Rhodesia; South Africa; specific countries

Albania, 25, 49, 84

Kosovo and, 101–2, 103, 104

Albright, Madeleine, 185, 235

American troops in England and (1944), 208

Babiš, impression of, 183–84

Bush’s relationship with, 244–45

in Carter’s White House, 123

Chávez and, 121, 122, 126

as secretary of state, 102, 126, 143, 171, 195, 213, 245, 255

Cold War and worldview of, 156–57

Community of Democracies conference, 106–7

on the EU, 180

family members murdered in the Holocaust, 2, 66

family returns to Czechoslovakia (1945–48), 82–87

family travels to America (1948), 1, 87, 185

family’s escape to London (1939), 1, 67

father of ( see Korbel, Josef)

on fundamental purpose of foreign policy, 200–201

at Georgetown University, Walsh School, 218, 232–37, 248–49

German bombing of Britain and, 67–69

on globalism and cooperation, 217–18

Gulen Institute and, 148

human rights work, 213–14

Hungary welcomed into NATO and, 171

as immigrant in America, 2–3, 185

on immigration issues, 187

Kim Dae-jung and, 214

Kosovo crisis and Milošević, 101–5, 196

on NATO, 218

as NDI chair, 109–11

in presidential campaigns, 116

Putin and, 158–59, 167

Pyongyang visit and meetings with Kim Jong-il, 195–99

remarks at Bush Institute event, October 2017, 245

staff member, Carter White House, 123

study of Eastern Europe, 3

survey of attitudes regarding democracy and free enterprise, 157

think tank projects and, 247

Trump’s presidency, analysis, 216–24, 245–46

on Turkey and Erdoğan, 143–45, 151

as UN ambassador, 97, 213–14

Alfonso XIII, King of Spain, 49

Aliyev, Ilham, 244

Alvarado, Juan Velasco, 123–24

America First Committee (AFC), 216

American Blackshirts, 235

American People’s Party, 226

Angola, 97

Anthony, Susan B., 126

anti-Semitism, 56

in Germany, 33, 80

in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, 65

Mosley and Fascism in Britain, 58

Pelley and the Silver Legion, 61

Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 92

in the Soviet Union, 80, 89

statutes in Italy, 74

in the U.S., 62

Arafat, Yasser, 199–200

Argentina, 93, 122–23

civilian rule in, 168

as haven for Nazis, 123

Perónism in, 123

Armenia, 97

Assad, Bashar al-, 166

Austria, 36, 76

Freedom Party, 182

Hitler and, 30, 31, 37, 58, 66

Nazi assassination of the chancellor, 46

post–World War I, 13

World War I and, 17

Austro-Hungarian Empire, 13, 55, 174

autocracy, 5, 11, 49, 113, 119, 165, 221, 244

tactics of Fascism and, 119

See also Philippines; Russia; Venezuela; specific autocrats

Azerbaijan, 97, 244

Babiš, Andrej, 183–84

Bahrain, 210–11

Baker, James, 166

Baltic States, 4, 71

Beneš, Edvard, 83, 85–86

Berdimuhamedow, Gurbanguly, 244

Berlin Wall, 3, 89, 93, 106, 156, 159, 168, 175

Blackwood, Cleo Haney, 93

Bolívar, Simón, 124, 130, 135

Bolivia, 132

Booth, John Wilkes, 250

Bosnia-Herzegovina, 99–100

Bosnian War, 97–100

Braun, Eva, 78

Brazil, 93, 228

Brecht, Bertolt, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui , 225–26

British Union of Fascists (BUF), 57–58

Broz, Josip (Tito), 85, 98

Bryan, William Jennings, 227

Buckley, William, 236

Bulgaria, 84, 138, 179

Burma, 205

See also Myanmar

Bush, George H. W., 4, 157, 245

Bush, George W., 234, 237, 244

North Korea and, 199, 200

speech at Bush Institute National Forum (October 2017), 244–45

Cabaret (musical), 63–64

Cambodia, 97, 212, 243

capitalism, 21, 115, 121, 130, 249

anti-capitalists, 9, 20, 79, 82

Cardinal’s Mistress, The (Mussolini), 16–17, 17n

Carson, Johnny, 236

Carter, Jimmy, 92, 123, 214

Castro, Fidel, 127, 130

Catherine the Great, 162

Chaplin, Charlie, 43, 43n, 45, 78

Chávez, Adán, 124

Chávez, Hugo, 121–22, 124–33, 135, 243

accomplishments, 131–32

accumulating power, 126

background and family, 124, 126

character and personality, 121, 127, 131, 132

communications strategy, 127

democracy and government of, 129–31

failed coup against (2002), 128–29, 130

failures of, 132–33

Fascism and, 135

politics as spectacle and, 130

as public speaker, 130–31

putsch attempt by and jailing of, 125–26

righteous anger and, 126–27

successor for, 133–35

tenure of president and, 126

Chile, 93, 110, 168

China, 92

authoritarianism in, 248

economic opening and reform, 193

human rights issues and, 214

increasing power of, 222

Internet firewalls by, 115

Korean War and, 190

North Korea and, 193, 202

Trump’s trade policy and, 222

on U.S. media, 213

Churchill, Winston, 83

on Hitler, 41

Mosley’s imprisonment and, 58

Mussolini and, 15

rejection of Hitler’s peace demands, 67

on World War I, 13

Cicero, 111

Clinton, Bill, 102, 245

Agreed Framework and, 194

Chávez and, 121, 122

Community of Democracies conference, 106–7