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The Power to Declare War — Who Speaks for the Constitution? Part 1

by Doug Bandow June 1, 1995

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 When presidents lose domestic support, they invariably look overseas for crises to solve. President Clinton is no different. After the Republicans swept Congress, he immediately flew off to the Pacific for a series of meetings with foreign leaders. Aides predict that he will continue to pay greater attention to foreign policy, where ... [click for more]

Book Review: Days of Infamy

by Richard M. Ebeling June 1, 1995

Days of Infamy: MacArthur, Roosevelt, Churchill — The Shocking Truth Revealed by John Costello (New York: Pocket Books, 1994); 448 pages; $24. John Costello is a distinguished historian who has uncovered fascinating new evidence on a wide number of topics. Two of his previous works, Mask of Treachery: Spies, Lies, Buggery & Betrayal (1988) and Deadly Illusions (1993), unearthed ... [click for more]

Repatriation — The Dark Side of World War II, Part 4

by Jacob G. Hornberger May 1, 1995

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 To fully understand what happened to American soldiers who were part of the repatriation horror at the end of World War II — and why it happened — it is necessary to examine events ... [click for more]

Covering the Map of the World — The Half-Century Legacy of the Yalta Conference, Part 4

by Richard M. Ebeling May 1, 1995

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 As we have seen, Roosevelt approached his meetings with Stalin with a determination to make friends and use the Red Czar of Soviet Russia as his ... [click for more]

American Foreign Policy — The Turning Point, 1898–1919 Part 4

by Ralph Raico May 1, 1995

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 Once war broke out in 1914, each of the European powers felt that its very existence was at stake, and rules of international law were rapidly abandoned. The Germans violated Belgian neutrality because their war plan called for the ... [click for more]

World War II and the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex

by Robert Higgs May 1, 1995

On January 18, 1961, just before leaving office, President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave a farewell address to the nation in which he called attention to the "conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry." He warned that "in the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by ... [click for more]

Baseball, Microsoft, and Antitrust Tyranny

by Sheldon Richman May 1, 1995

Congress's efforts to meddle in the Major League Baseball strike and the Department of Justice's harassment of the software giant Microsoft are just the latest reminders that the American economy badly needs to be liberated from the century-long tyranny of antitrust law. (The Sherman Antitrust Act was passed in 1890.) Through a quirk of jurisprudential history, baseball has been exempt ... [click for more]

Book Review: Conditions of Liberty

by Richard M. Ebeling May 1, 1995

Conditions of Liberty: Civil Society and Its Rivals by Ernest Gellner (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1994); 225 pages; $25. The Western world is unique. It is the only civilization that has successfully combined liberty, order, and prosperity. We who live in it — even with all of its existing impurities of statist interventionism and coercive redistributivism — take it for granted and ... [click for more]

Repatriation — The Dark Side of World War II, Part 3

by Jacob G. Hornberger April 1, 1995

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 Adolf Hitler did not trust Andrey Vlasov. The Russian general had served in the Russian army since the Russian Revolution. He had fought hard and valiantly in the successful defense of Moscow. It was ... [click for more]

Covering the Map of the World — The Half-Century Legacy of the Yalta Conference, Part 3

by Richard M. Ebeling April 1, 1995

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 The Yalta meeting was the culmination of the wartime conferences between Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt. Both Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt placed a high value on ... [click for more]

The America First Committee

by Sheldon Richman April 1, 1995

One of the most remarkable episodes in American history was the spontaneous and widespread opposition to Franklin Roosevelt's obvious attempts to embroil the United States in the European war that broke out in 1939. That opposition was centered in the America First Committee. In modern accounts of the war period, the committee is either ignored or maligned as a ... [click for more]

American Foreign Policy — The Turning Point, 1898 –1919 Part 3

by Ralph Raico April 1, 1995

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 By 1899, the United States was involved in its first war in Asia. Three others were to follow in the course of the next century: against Japan, North Korea and China, and, finally, Viet Nam. But our first ... [click for more]