Americans and thousands of europeans who formed the boots on the ground for the commission of relief of belgium. These people had studied those thousands of studies, and these quarter have been a study of north america to share that with you today. Our first speaker is branden little. He was working the tracing different files and found an early history of the crv. This led, as all good stories, to further research, further inquiry. He has written a book called band of crusaders. His book covers 50 years of humanitarian relief and explains what i call this creation story of the crv in the context of many competing agencies, difficulties of feeding people during world war i. It makes clear the special role, the pivotal role played by the crv and shaping later humanitarian efforts. I added, thanks to brandon, a new phrase what i do my tours and i speak of this band of crusaders. Jeff miller, our second speaker, came to hoover some time ago, to discuss the possibility of donating his gran
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History up to that point and poland was, had a, sizable army. Small air force, small navy. It was basically a poor country. It didnt have the sense and financial wherewithal germany did. They thought they could hold off germany at least for a while but germans rolled over them. Cspan you say it wasnt a surprise. The date was maybe a surprise but was the rest of europe preparing for war at this point . Guest they expected war was coming. Most European Countries hoped it wouldnt happen. Half the European Countries were neutral. They declared neutrality. Some prepared for war to a certain extent but none of them were really ready for what was about to happen to them. They hoped somehow something would happen to prevent germany from embarking on what, you know, hitler had been really preparing for a number of years. So they were basically keeping their fingered crossed. Obviously that didnt work. Cspan why werent they prepared . If they were aware of what hitler wanted . Part of the reason
Need 50 votes to pass. Surely the republicans can get these 50 votes. And here is this mornings president ial tweet. The budget passed late last night. 51 to 49, we got zero democrat votes with only rand paul, he will vote for tax cuts, voting against. Investors clearly share the confidence, expect another record high moments from now. Totally different subject. A passionate rebuke to Federico Wilson and the media from white house chief of staff john kelly, she was wrong, he was right. Wait till you hear what a tomp clinton aide had to say about it. These people have no shame, Varney Company about to begin. Most americans dont know when they lose marines, their buddies wraps them up and put them on a helicopter and sends them home. Dresses them in uniform with the medals that theyve earned, while thats happening, a casualty officer typically goes to the home, very early in the morning and waits for the first lights to come on. Casualty officer proceeds to break the heart of a family me
A half. By the American Enterprise institute, welcome to the American Enterprise institute. Im a Senior Vice President for foreign and defense policy studies here and i am genuinely delighted that we have senator rubio here with us today to help us rule out the new report here. It is the product of the working group on transnational organized crime run by the visiting scholar. I dont think marco rubio needs a bath of introduction to this audience, but im going to give a word or two nonetheless and then hand things over and do a little housekeeping. Marco rubio is the senator from florida elected in 2010 and 2016 is a member of the committee on appropriations and the committee on Foreign Relations and has a resume much longer that im not going to keep reading but to us he has been a leader on International Affairs and somebody who increasingly a country turns to hear where we should be going on these issues and for us today i know we are very proud that hes been a leader on issues of ex