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Sponsorship Iconochasms KNOW YOUR HEROES, HEROINES - AND HISTORY. Hopefully, youre happy with the personalities that The Political Compass has placed you closest to; but how well do you really know the famous f igures that you love or love to hate? This little wrap-up quiz offers some important facts that were barely, if ever, reported. It may raise your eyebrows and adjust the pedestals on which you placed some of your favourite icons. John Ashcroft, referring to Abu Graib Donald Rumsfeld, referring to Guantanamo Bay Rudolf Hss, referring to Auschwitz Emperor Hirohito, referring to Manchuria Rudolf Hss, Commandant of Auschwitz until 1943, in his post-war testimony 2 Who proposed that Whosoever shall be guilty of rape, polygamy, or sodomy with a man or woman, shall be punished; if a man, by castration, a woman, by boring through the cartilage of her nose a hole of one half inch in diameter at the least ? Oliver Cromwell Thomas Jefferson Mao Tse Tung Christopher Columbus Thomas Jefferson, in the Virginia Bill number 64, 18 June 1779 3 Who held that spiritual characteristics are tied to skin colour and t hat non-white skin colour is a sign of spiritual defects that would be expunged in a future race war ? Rudolf Hess Rudolf Steiner Rudolf Valentino Rudolf Nureyev Rudolf Steiner, in a lecture to an anthroposophist audience in Stuttgart, 1915 The lecture is in Die geistigen Hintergrnde des Ersten Weltkrieges, Dornach 1974 pp30-54 4 Who said Short of changing human nature, therefore, the only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war ? Henry Kissinger Lyndon Johnson Richard Nixon Ronald Reagan Richard Nixon Real Peace 1983 5 Who wrote in 1928 that It may be shrewdly forecast that no man will exhibit dimensions of permanent greatness equal to Mussolini ? The Vatican Ambassador to Germany The US Ambassador to Italy The Soviet Union Ambassador to the League of Nations The UK Ambassador to Italy US Ambassador to Italy, Richard Washburn Child, in his preface to Mussolini's autobiography 6 Immediately following the German invasion of the USSR, which future U S President said the following ? If we see that Germany is winning, we ought to help Russia, and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way we let them kill as many as possible. Harry Truman Richard Nixon Jimmy Carter John Kennedy Harry Truman, 1941 7 Who said Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed; Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined and imprisoned. Hillary Clinton Thomas Edison Charles de Gaulle Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson 9 Who said Japan was already defeated ... I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was no longer necessary to save American lives ? General Patton General Eisenhower General MacArthur Charles Lindberg General Dwight DEisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, and later US President. Who accepted the Grand Cross of the German Eagle - the highest medal that Nazi Germany could bestow on foreigners - in July 1938, four months after the German annexation of Austria ? J D Rockefeller Henry Ford King Haakon VII of Norway Marlene Dietrich Henry Ford. With reference to Tiger Woods' first Golf Masters win, who said there 'll be a spectacular increase in the number of black boys (and I do mean boys - teenagers) who begin to infest the public courses in America ? O J Simpson Alistair Cooke Mel Gibson Naomi Klein Alistair Cooke in his BBC Letter from America, May 2, 1997 12. Who presented Chairman Mao Tse Tung with a bouquet of poems that lavi shly praised the Chinese leader as the timely rain to nourish the land ? Nancy Reagan The Dalai Lama Pope John XXIII Robert Frost The Dalai Lama, on his first meeting with Mao in Beijing (then Peking) in 1954 13. Who blocked the marriage of his son and disowned him, commenting How can I, who has always advocated renunciation of sex, encourage you to gratify it ? Which founding father said of the proposed American Constitution This is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism ... when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other ? Benjamin Franklin Alexander Hamilton Thomas Paine George Washington Benjamin Franklin in a speech to delegates to the US Constitutional Convention prior to the final vote. Who said The use of quantity of money as a target has not been a succ ess. I'm not sure that I would as of today push it as hard as I once did. Margaret Thatcher Milton Friedman Ludwig von Mises Friedrich Hayek Milton Friedman in Financial Times (UK) June 7, 2003 16. Who said of Saddam Hussein He has not developed any significant capab ility with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbours ? Colin Powell Donald Rumsfeld Dick Cheney Bill Clinton Colin Powell in February 2001 17. Who said of containment against Saddam Hussein We are able to keep ar ms from him. Richard Perle John Bolton Paul Wolfovitz Condoleezza Rice Condoleezza Rice in July 2001 18. Who said : I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. H e is showing an ability that is amazing and seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed ? Winston Churchill Albert Einstein Mahatma Gandhi George Orwell Mahatma Gandhi, May 1940 19. Who said : I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against unc ivilised tribes ... Albert Schweizer Winston Churchill Princess Diana Ch Guevara Winston Churchill, writing as President of the Air Council, in 1919 20. Who granted several audiences to, and received a donation of more tha n $1 million from Shoko Asahara, leader of the Supreme Truth cult of Japan, and spreader of sarin gas in the Tokyo subway ? The Dalai Lama Pope John Paul II George Carey, as Archbishop of Canterbury Maharishi Mahesh Yogi The Dalai Lama, in 1982 21. Which politician travelled to Indonesia and received a $10 million do nation from dictator Suharto to help party funds, while avoiding criticism of Indonesia's repressive policies, including political imprisonment ? Margaret Thatcher Fidel Castro Nelson Mandela Tony Blair Nelson Mandela, in October 1990, six months after his own release from prison 22. Who warned of the acquisition of unwarranted influence by the US mili tary-industrial complex and its potential to endanger liberties and the democratic processes ? General Alexander Haig President, General Dwight Eisenhower Nelson Rockefeller J Edgar Hoover President Eisenhower, in his Final Address to the Nation, January 17, 1961 23. With reference to World War One, who said : If our country were defea ted, I hope we should find a champion as admirable (as Hitler) to restore our courage and lead us back to our place among the nations ? General Montgomery Winston Churchill King George VI Bertrand Russell Winston Churchill, in his Great Contemporaries, 1937 24. Who was an enthusiastic and uncritical guest of the dictatorships of Haiti and Albania, and the phalangists in Lebanon ? Jane Fonda Mother Teresa of Calcutta Princess Diana The Dalai Lama Mother Teresa of Calcutta 25. Who referred to the Munich chapter of the German Communist Party as c haotic, filthy and full of Jews ? Edward VIII, later Duke of Windsor Eugenio Pacelli, later Pope Pius XII Cassius Clay, later Mohammed Ali Michael Ramsay, later Archbishop of Canterbury Eugenio Pacelli, later Pope Pius XII 26. With reference to the US conquest and annexation of a third of Mexico , who said : What has miserable, inefficient Mexico to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race ? Walt Whitman Mark Twain Henry Thoreau Edgar Allen Poe Walt Whitman 27. Who urged suspicious attention to any proposed new law or regulation that comes from businessmen, because they have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public ? Henry Ford Bill Gates Adam Smith Milton Friedman Adam Smith in The Wealth of Na...
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