In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.
The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.
The adverse economic events following the First World War turned me toward economics.
Previous governments, particularly the one before I took over, mismanaged the economy quite badly.
War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.
The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.
No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.
World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic - with many a wink - in the people's name.
After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.