"Axis of Evil" antedating (1941)

[Scot LaFaive]

So you're saying that someone in the administration lied? Hmmm.....
Scot


>From: Sam Clements <SClements at NEO.RR.COM>
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>Subject: "Axis of Evil" antedating (1941)
>Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 21:41:35 -0500
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>While browsing Google News stories a few minutes ago, I ran across a =
>story that alleges(in the headline) that David Frum, GWBush's =
>speechwriter "invented" the phrase for Bush's Jan. 2002 State of the =
>union address.  =
>http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3350042,00.html=20
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>The YBOQ echoes this.
>
>Using Newspaperarchive,  we find two different earlier newpaper stories =
>using the phrase.
>
>_Van Wert(OH) Bulletin, 10 Feb. 1941, an article by Edwin C. Hill, a =
>King Features Syndicate writer:
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>    "Down through the centuries, war and pestilence were interacting, and =
>alied--an axis of evil from the days of the Dawn Man to this =
>day.........."
>
>and
>
>_Winnipeg Free Press_ 20 May 1943, what appears to be an editorial:
>
>      "The organization of large-scale war against Japan will have no =
>counterpart in the annals of military science.  The task is enormous.  =
>The lines of supply will be the longest ever seen, and the enemy is =
>fanatic, obstinate and brave.  But across the seas, through swamp and =
>jungle, over mountains and in the air the devastating strength of the =
>United Nations will be in due course directed against the cruel and =
>pretentious claims of imperial Japan whose doom will be as overwhelming =
>and complete as that which is destined for the European end of the Axis =
>of evil."
>
>Of course, no one could have forseen the bomb.  [or the Spanish =
>Inquisition  :)   ]
>
>Sam Clements
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