Robert Lansing person
also: Bert Robert Lansing, Lansing, Mr. Lansing, Secretary of State Lansing, Secretary of State Robert Lansing, The United States Secretary of State, Robert Lansing, Uncle Bert, Uncle Burt Lansing, U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing
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Robert Lansing worked_for
William B. Wilson documented
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“For example Secretary of State Lansing declared in a private memorandum written in July…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.389
Robert Lansing worked_for
United States Department of State documented
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“his uncle Robert Lansing had been Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.49
Robert Lansing founded
Bureau of Secret Intelligence documented
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“In 191:6 Secre tary of State Robert Lansing created a Bureau of Secret Intelligence headed by a Chief Special Agent…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.115
Robert Lansing worked_for
U.S. State Department documented
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“In 191:6 Secre tary of State Robert Lansing created a Bureau of Secret Intelligence headed by a Chief Special Agent…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.115
Robert Lansing covered_up
Paris Peace Conference documented
“by a large majority condemning enemy violations of what they term laws of humanity, particularly those of the Turkish prosecution of Armenians. This opened the door to international trials of Turkish leaders and perhaps the trial of central…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splenda Blond Beast #2 @ 38:29
Woodrow Wilson supported
Robert Lansing documented
“for the measure, and they were depending on the U.S. to block it. President Wilson also supported Lansing at this point and argued in private meetings that a trial of the Kaiser would make a martyr of him, perhaps leading to a restoration o…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splenda Blond Beast #2 @ 40:02
Robert Lansing succeeded
William Jennings Bryan documented
“So the U-boats are benched or beached. Secretary of State at the time was none other than William Jennings Bryan. He would resign his post over the handling of the Lusitania because he thought we were too aggressive with it. He wanted to st…”
▶ The Shadow State 81 Sykes-Picot & The Balfour Declaration @ 33:22
Robert Lansing member_of
Allen Dulles host_asserted
“The U.S. and other European powers intentionally frustrated the immediate demands for justice for the victims of World War I, as the U.S. Secretary of State, Robert Lansing, and who was Robert Lansing? Robert Lansing is the uncle of Alan Du…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #1 @ 32:24
Woodrow Wilson appointed
Robert Lansing book_quoted
“President Woodrow Wilson appointed Dulles' uncle, Bert Robert Lansing, as U.S. Secretary of State. Foster Dulles joined the State Department in 1917 as a specialist in political economic affairs. He soon undertook negotiating assignments fo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splenda Blond Beast #2 @ 24:47
Robert Lansing headed
Commission on the Responsibility of the Authors of the War and Enforcement of Penalties book_quoted
“That was to decide who was to be held responsible for initiating the war and on the mechanisms of prosecuting alleged war crimes. The U.S. representatives to this war crimes commission were Secretary of State Robert Lansing and James B. Sco…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splenda Blond Beast #2 @ 31:09
Robert Lansing covered_up
Armenian Genocide host_asserted
“had not been specifically banned by the Hague and Geneva Convention, these actions were inherently criminal under the most elementary norms of human behavior. This was, they said, a crime against humanity. Lansing strongly objected to this.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splenda Blond Beast #2 @ 36:01
Office of Policy Coordination recruited
Robert Lansing book_quoted
“and was in search of even more powerful equipment so they could have a bigger broadcast. The OPC kept in close contact with Radio Free Europe, assigning officers to work there and hiring former OSS radio experts like Peter Mero, M-E-R-O, an…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 21:12
Robert Lansing member_of
Radio Free Europe host_asserted
“Former OSS radio experts Peter Mero, M-E-R-O, and Robert Lang helped select transmission sites near Frankfurt. The first Radio Free Europe broadcast was a half-hour program beamed into Czechoslovakia July of 1950. From that December, Radio …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 30:38
Robert Lansing founded
U.S. State Department host_asserted
“the violence of war home to German cities, the Allied bombing contributed substantially to the atmosphere where mass slave labor could be accepted as an ordinary fact of life in Germany. Importantly, the framework of international law const…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 6 @ 56:23
Mentions (33)
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Secretary of State Robert Lansing, who was involved in many, many of the coups done during this same time period, reduced the barrier to one of a temporary delay while the American gun company would be permitted to then ship and deliver. Th…
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Warhamster points out that Nelson Aldridge Rockefellers, named after Aldridge, which is the former Secretary of State, it was his dad that was involved in this before the war, or his grandfather, actually. Before the war, all of these opera…
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and was in search of even more powerful equipment so they could have a bigger broadcast. The OPC kept in close contact with Radio Free Europe, assigning officers to work there and hiring former OSS radio experts like Peter Mero, M-E-R-O, an…
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Former OSS radio experts Peter Mero, M-E-R-O, and Robert Lang helped select transmission sites near Frankfurt. The first Radio Free Europe broadcast was a half-hour program beamed into Czechoslovakia July of 1950. From that December, Radio …
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who just so happened to be Robert Lansing, who was not only a former counsel for United Fruit, but Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State. Allen became so frequent a visitor to Guatemala as a legal envoy of United Fruit that he began taking al…
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President Woodrow Wilson appointed Dulles' uncle, Bert Robert Lansing, as U.S. Secretary of State. Foster Dulles joined the State Department in 1917 as a specialist in political economic affairs. He soon undertook negotiating assignments fo…
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which carved up the new Czech state out of Germany's Sutherland and pieces of the now defunct Austrian-Hungarian Empire. He was simultaneously in charge of the U.S. delegation's political intelligence efforts in Central Europe. He was 25 ye…
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That was to decide who was to be held responsible for initiating the war and on the mechanisms of prosecuting alleged war crimes. The U.S. representatives to this war crimes commission were Secretary of State Robert Lansing and James B. Sco…
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as infringements of the U.S. national sovereignty. He strongly opposed any trials for war crimes or atrocities beyond those that the defeated powers might choose to carry out themselves. Lansing exhibited one curious state of mind, observed…
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He believes that almost any form of atrocity is permissible, provided the nation's safety is involved, unquote. When House asked Lansing who should best determine the level of atrocity appropriate to protect the nation, Lansing replied, quo…
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of whether or not that was actually a crime. Lansing believed that any new precedent set at the Paris Conference against war crimes would probably endanger the U.S. in any future crisis, and he insisted that his government exempt itself fro…
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are looking out for the business interests, not Americans' interests, not the shining light on a hill and what's right and what's wrong. They're looking out for business interests because Lansing knew very well what they were doing in Latin…
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had not been specifically banned by the Hague and Geneva Convention, these actions were inherently criminal under the most elementary norms of human behavior. This was, they said, a crime against humanity. Lansing strongly objected to this.…
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and their failure would undermine compliance with treaties in other ways. So it's too hard to do, so we're not going to do it. Lansing voiced similar opposition to demands that Kaiser Wilhelm and other leaders be tried before an internation…
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The German government claimed to support an independent commission to study the question of war guilt, offering to submit cases of accused German criminals to an international court of neutral jurists if the associated powers would do the s…
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by a large majority condemning enemy violations of what they term laws of humanity, particularly those of the Turkish prosecution of Armenians. This opened the door to international trials of Turkish leaders and perhaps the trial of central…
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For a time, the U.S. delegation's opposition to war crimes trials threatened to derail the Paris conference. As Lansing saw things, he had important allies in his efforts to block the resolution, despite the lopsided vote against him in the…
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for the measure, and they were depending on the U.S. to block it. President Wilson also supported Lansing at this point and argued in private meetings that a trial of the Kaiser would make a martyr of him, perhaps leading to a restoration o…
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In time, Wilson suffered, though Lansing did not. The Big Four approved a compromise that watered down the War Crimes Commission's original proposals. Wilson believed that the compromise language would mollify public opinion and divert atte…
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The U.S. and other European powers intentionally frustrated the immediate demands for justice for the victims of World War I, as the U.S. Secretary of State, Robert Lansing, and who was Robert Lansing? Robert Lansing is the uncle of Alan Du…
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And although the sentences were so inadequate, those who had been convicted were not even made to serve their sentence. They were allowed to escape. Meanwhile, Lansing and Wilson's position prevailed with respects to the trial of the former…
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or even survival, seemed to depend. The pressures against justice came not only from the defendants, but also from a coalition of both victorious and defeated powers. Secretary of State Lansing, again, Dulles' uncle. Actions at Paris and th…
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Secretary of State Uncle Burt Lansing commented the following. Terrible, possibly of a proletarian despotism over Central Europe, unquote, directly argued that reparations must be kept low in order to avoid revolution. The Berlin and Budape…
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the use of a conspiracy prosecution against the SS and Nazi party for at least the next six months, in part due to Hackworth's prompting, Attorney General Francis Biddle, B-I-D-D-L-E, also opposed Pell's initiatives in the War Department's …
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the violence of war home to German cities, the Allied bombing contributed substantially to the atmosphere where mass slave labor could be accepted as an ordinary fact of life in Germany. Importantly, the framework of international law const…
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Secretary of State Lansing and says they talk about Christian Harder, remain cordial and tolerant to the Academians. And there were dinners on Allen's tab as well as lunches at the RIT, which Allen discreetly brought Vance McCormick and his…
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Yeah, he definitely is in here. Robert Lansing is the Secretary of State who's also the uncle of the Dulles brothers, one of which would become the next Secretary of State if you want to know how incestuous our foreign policy is. So, yep. C…
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And this is during World War I. Becomes the U.S. Undersecretary of State in 1919. What's going on in 1919 around the world? Pre-Versailles. Pre-Versailles. All these international bankers and lawyers are meeting in Paris to carve up the wor…
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So the U-boats are benched or beached. Secretary of State at the time was none other than William Jennings Bryan. He would resign his post over the handling of the Lusitania because he thought we were too aggressive with it. He wanted to st…
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There's a picture of him giving that. William Jennings Bryan, the Cross of Gold speech. He was a brilliant orator. He would end up being a three-time Democratic candidate for president, but never won. And even though he was an opponent of W…
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It's a very interesting character. Like I said, we've got to go into more detail on him. He was a big advocate for American involvement in World War I. He married the daughter of former Secretary of State, got a name of John Foster. Foster'…
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So we've got three secretaries of state out of one family. Do you want to tell me we are not inbred? I want to go into more detail on that story because that was one of my first rabbit holes when I really started going into this period of h…
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And, of course, they would then again go with the propaganda to the women, join the workforce, fuel the front lines. So that's our propaganda exploding into time period. In 1917, German U-boats resumed attacks on all ships in the war zone a…