William Randolph Hearst Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Position regarding Germany === According to Rodney Carlisle, "Hearst condemned the domestic practices of Naziism, but he believed that German demands for boundary revision were legitimate. While he was not pro-Nazi, he accepted more German positions and propaganda than did some other editors and publishers."<ref>Rodney Carlisle, "The Foreign Policy Views of an Isolationist Press Lord: W. R. Hearst and the International Crisis, 1936-41" ''Journal of Contemporary History'' 9#3 (1974), pp. 217-227, quote at pp 220-221. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/260031 online]</ref> With “AMERICA FIRST” emblazoned on his newspaper masthead, Hearst celebrated the “great achievement” of the new [[Nazi Germany|Nazi regime]] in Germany—a lesson to all “liberty-loving people.” In 1934, after checking with Jewish leaders,{{sfn|Nasaw|2000|pp=496-97}} Hearst visited Berlin to interview [[Adolf Hitler]]. When Hitler asked why he was so misunderstood by the American press, Hearst retorted: "Because Americans believe in democracy, and are averse to dictatorship."<ref>{{cite book|first=Andrew|last=Nagorski|title=Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8KRh_hNVibMC&pg=PA176 |year=2012|page=176|publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-1439191026}}</ref> William Randolph Hearst instructed his reporters in Germany to give positive coverage of the Nazis, and fired journalists who refused to write stories favourable of German fascism.<ref name=":1" /> Hearst's papers ran columns without rebuttal by Nazi leader [[Hermann Göring]], [[Alfred Rosenberg]],<ref name=":1" /> and Hitler himself, as well as Mussolini and other dictators in Europe and Latin America.{{sfn|Nasaw|2000|pp=470–77}} After the systematic massive Nazi attacks on Jews known as [[Kristallnacht]] (November 9–10, 1938), the Hearst press, like all major American newspapers, blamed Hitler and the Nazis: "The entire civilized world is shocked and shamed by Germany's brutal oppression of the Jewish people," read an editorial in all Hearst papers. "You [Hitler] are making the flag of National Socialism a symbol of national savagery," read an editorial written by Hearst.{{sfn|Nasaw|2000|p=554}} During 1934, Japan / U.S. relations were unstable. In an attempt to remedy this, Prince [[Tokugawa Iesato]] travelled throughout the United States on a goodwill visit. During his visit, Prince Iesato and his delegation met with William Randolph Hearst with the hope of improving relations between the two nations. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page