Brand Whitlock

born in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand_Whitlock; still alive (age ~NaN)

Progressive mayor of Toledo (Georgist); U.S. Ambassador to Belgium during WWI


Quotes (Authored)

The U.S. Ambassador to Belgium, Brand Whitlock, who had won renown as a reform mayor of Toledo, Ohio, started out with great goodwill toward Hoover but wound up loathing him. In the early days of the CRB, Whitlock wrote that Hoover "has a genius for organization and for getting things done, and beneath all, with his great intelligence, ... has a wonderful human heart." It did not take long, though, for the envoy to conclude that Hoover was a "fruste" (uncultivated) and "boorish," or to deplore his acting "in a brutal manner." After reading a domineering cable to the king of Belgium drafted by the CRB chairman, Whitlock commented that Hoover was "always trying to force, to blackmail, to frighten people into doing things his way ... What a bully! He would even bully a poor exiled King!"

  • by William E. Leuchtenburg, Brand Whitlock
  • about Herbert Hoover