Lawrence Dennis was an American diplomat, consultant, and author.
14 Facts About Lawrence Dennis
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Lawrence Dennis advocated fascism in America after the Great Depression, arguing that liberal capitalism was doomed and one-party planning of the economy was essential.
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Lawrence Dennis graduated from Harvard in 1920 and entered the diplomatic service.
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Lawrence Dennis resigned from the foreign service in disgust at the US intervention there against Sandino's rebellion, complaining of a nepotistic and non-meritocratic promotion system.
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Lawrence Dennis then became an adviser to the Latin American fund of the Seligman banking trust, but he again made enemies when he wrote a series of exposes of their foreign bond enterprises in The New Republic and The Nation in 1930.
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Lawrence Dennis married Eleanor Melisande Brunnhilde Simson, who had Jewish ancestry, in 1933, and they lived together in the Berkshires, Massachusetts.
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Lawrence Dennis argued that he was merely examining fascism and predicting its coming to the US, not actually advocating it.
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Lawrence Dennis never tried to create or join a fascist party.
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Lawrence Dennis viewed Hitler as unimpressive and reliant on political showmanship, preferring more intellectual Nazis such as Joseph Goebbels, Alfred Rosenberg, Rudolf Hess, and Hermann Goring.
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Lawrence Dennis criticized Nazis' overt anti-Semitism, though seemingly more as a matter of strategy and optics than of genuine anti-bigotry beliefs.
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Lawrence Dennis was an isolationist, and therefore expressed staunch opposition to American involvement in a war against Nazi Germany.
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Lawrence Dennis was an editor at The Awakener for some time.
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Lawrence Dennis tried to join the US Army during World War II, but the Army rejected him after the media ran stories about him.
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Lawrence Dennis co-authored with Maximilian John St George an account of the trial, which appeared in 1946 as A Trial on Trial: The Great Sedition Trial of 1944.