Query: Quotation from Gen. Shoup.

[cbcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Carrol Cox)]

    Some time in the last couple months in one of the publicatins I read I came
across a statement quoted from Gen. Shoup (commandment of the Marine Corps in
the 1960s). It went something like, "If the U.S. would keep its dirty blood
stained fingers out of these countries (third world), they would get along much
better." That isn't accurate, but it's the substance. Could anyone give me an
accurate rendering of this quotation and a source? I would like to have it by
Thursday a.m. if possible, because Thursday afternoon I have an interview with
a reporter from the local Bloomington paper--the occasion being the 25th
anniversery of the attempt to fire me from ISU. It may have been filler in
Monthly review, Z, or NACLA. I can't find it now however.

    (Incidentally, General Smedley Butler, former Marine Commandment and most
decorated marine ever--they still worship him in Marine basic training--in his
memoirs--circa 1936--gave a lengthy statement about how he had been a thug for
various U.S. corporate interests. I have several copies of that around too, but
they are temporarily missing.)

    Carrol Cox
    Illinois State University


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