Elephant in the room- Long Island

Elephant in the room Before we go on to look at the Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany from 1933, we need first to consider where Adolf Hitler was getting his ideas from, because the ideas which Adolf Hitler had are currently out of fashion there is a natural revisionist tendency within society since 1941 to delete all references to these vital to the story- ideas. Thus in The Great Gatsby set on New York’s Long Island among the mansions of the elite- the author tells us of the influential author who was spreading the ideas which Adolf Hitler obtained. But the point I want to make again- Is Did Adolf Hitler obtain his ideas from USA and Great Britain?- or were these remarkable ideas shared equally across both Germany Britain and USA? Another remarkable resident of a Long Island’s mansion… President Theodore Roosevelt- And from Boston his political co-worker - Henry Cabot Lodge… -Lodge was for Roosevelt a high educated intellectual having influence on the President and upon the policy and direction of USA …. But educated in what? I will now let Time magazine Editor and Princeton teacher Evan Thomas ‘The War Lovers’2010 to answer for us: ‘Roosevelt had written a naval history of the war of 1812, while Lodge was one of the first three PhDs awarded at Harvard in ‘Anglo Saxon’ history… Roosevelt was heavily influenced by the Social Darwinist theories of his professors at Harvard and Columbia Law school which he attended for a year before going into politics….Roosevelt and Lodge looked to their own heredity for the conquering impulse. Roosevelt believed that Viking blood ran in his veins…Lodge noted that the English Puritan was essentially a fighting man and excelled in the art of war and in his book on those Puritans remarked on the ‘true Puritan fashion’ in which the local Indian tribes were exterminated. (See-Hampton News post on this blog) … Harvard was a hotbed of eugenics and other long since discredited racial theories. Lodge earned his doctorate studying histories largely bogus of the foundation of democracy and liberty in the dark forests of the ancient Teutonic tribes in Germany, Harvard scholars were sure that Anglo Saxons had emerged as the master race over the centuries that followed….Lodge offered all sorts of dubious arguments for (excluding inferior races from USA) …including a reference to a chart on ability which showed the English Race produced more statesmen soldiers and clergy; 1,542; 1,260; 1,520 than say Irish 9, 18, 28. John F Kennedy’s grandfather told a story of being accosted by Lodge in 1897.. ‘You are an impudent young man, do you think that the Jews or the Italians have any right in this country?’ Kennedy responded; ‘As much right as your father or mine- it is only the difference of a few ships’ It is starling even shocking, to read about Lodge and Roosevelt spouting off on race… appearing to support genocide’ p31, 43-44 The War Lovers Evan Thomas Little Brown New York 2010.