1. There are four references to ‘Divine’ in Declaration of Independence:
1) in first paragraph ‘Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God,’
2) next paragraph ‘endowed by their Creator,”
3) Supreme Judge of the world, and
4) ‘divine’ Providence, last paragraph.
This is important because our historic documents memorialize a government based on individuals born with inalienable rights, by, in various references, by the Divine, or Nature’s God, or their Creator, or the Supreme Judge, or divine Providence.
2. An example of the role of the Devine in America's history can be seen during Franklin Roosevelt's presidency.
All sorts of questions buzz around the special relationship the Roosevelt had with the homicidal maniac, Joseph Stalin, but there is no question as to how Soviet apparatchik Henry Wallace became his second vice-president.
a. Roosevelt insisted that the Soviet-sympathizer be on the ticket!
" Even with FDR’s endorsement (and his threat to withdraw from the presidential race if Wallace were not chosen by the Democratic convention), Wallace won by only 628 to 459…Wallace was not allowed to give an acceptance speech."
FDR Stalin and Oliver Stone - The New York Sun
3. It has been one of those blessings of Providence that Harry Truman replaced the communist Henry Wallace as Roosevelt's vice president. Truman was a fine American.....yet he could not resist the 'communist disease' any more than many other fine Americans of the era.
a. As President of the United States, he denounced the Hiss case as a "red herring" and tolerated in his Cabinet such abettors of world communism as George C. Marshall and Dean Acheson.
b. But, there is this:
"The conduct of President Truman in this case was particularly hard to understand. No one would question the tough-minded anti-Communism of the man who had so boldly initiated the program of Greek-Turkish aid and the Marshall Plan....He denied outright the evidence in front of him and he stumped the 1948 political trail flailing away at 'the red herring'..."
Richard Nixon on the Meaning of the Hiss Case
4. As was true of so may other Americans, Truman certainly didn't begin with such inclinations. What happened?
According to "The Man of Independence," an authorized Truman biography by Jonathan Daniels, it was Max Lowenthal, a crafty southpaw government lawyer, who first corrupted Truman's mind with Marxist prejudices against railroads, insurance companies, and "big business" generally. Lowenthal was counsel to a Senate Interstate Commerce Subcommittee. In 1936 Truman, an eager member of the subcommittee, fell under Lowenthal's spell. When Lowenthal proposed to take him to see Justice Louis D. Brandeis, the country boy said he was "not used to meeting people like that," but he went anyway and became a disciple of "the great liberal," who held forth on the evils of the American economic system.
Manly, "The Twenty Year Revolution," p. 137.
a. Truman moved so far to the Left, that after his election, he received this salute from Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.,: "The conceptions of the intellectual are at last beginning to catch up with the instincts of the Democratic politician."
5. A famous passage in Witness continually bears remembering:
"You don't understand the class structure of American society," said Smetana, "or you would not ask such a question. In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists."
The experiences of Harry Truman verify exactly what Whittaker Chambers said, huh?
1) in first paragraph ‘Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God,’
2) next paragraph ‘endowed by their Creator,”
3) Supreme Judge of the world, and
4) ‘divine’ Providence, last paragraph.
This is important because our historic documents memorialize a government based on individuals born with inalienable rights, by, in various references, by the Divine, or Nature’s God, or their Creator, or the Supreme Judge, or divine Providence.
2. An example of the role of the Devine in America's history can be seen during Franklin Roosevelt's presidency.
All sorts of questions buzz around the special relationship the Roosevelt had with the homicidal maniac, Joseph Stalin, but there is no question as to how Soviet apparatchik Henry Wallace became his second vice-president.
a. Roosevelt insisted that the Soviet-sympathizer be on the ticket!
" Even with FDR’s endorsement (and his threat to withdraw from the presidential race if Wallace were not chosen by the Democratic convention), Wallace won by only 628 to 459…Wallace was not allowed to give an acceptance speech."
FDR Stalin and Oliver Stone - The New York Sun
3. It has been one of those blessings of Providence that Harry Truman replaced the communist Henry Wallace as Roosevelt's vice president. Truman was a fine American.....yet he could not resist the 'communist disease' any more than many other fine Americans of the era.
a. As President of the United States, he denounced the Hiss case as a "red herring" and tolerated in his Cabinet such abettors of world communism as George C. Marshall and Dean Acheson.
b. But, there is this:
"The conduct of President Truman in this case was particularly hard to understand. No one would question the tough-minded anti-Communism of the man who had so boldly initiated the program of Greek-Turkish aid and the Marshall Plan....He denied outright the evidence in front of him and he stumped the 1948 political trail flailing away at 'the red herring'..."
Richard Nixon on the Meaning of the Hiss Case
4. As was true of so may other Americans, Truman certainly didn't begin with such inclinations. What happened?
According to "The Man of Independence," an authorized Truman biography by Jonathan Daniels, it was Max Lowenthal, a crafty southpaw government lawyer, who first corrupted Truman's mind with Marxist prejudices against railroads, insurance companies, and "big business" generally. Lowenthal was counsel to a Senate Interstate Commerce Subcommittee. In 1936 Truman, an eager member of the subcommittee, fell under Lowenthal's spell. When Lowenthal proposed to take him to see Justice Louis D. Brandeis, the country boy said he was "not used to meeting people like that," but he went anyway and became a disciple of "the great liberal," who held forth on the evils of the American economic system.
Manly, "The Twenty Year Revolution," p. 137.
a. Truman moved so far to the Left, that after his election, he received this salute from Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.,: "The conceptions of the intellectual are at last beginning to catch up with the instincts of the Democratic politician."
5. A famous passage in Witness continually bears remembering:
"You don't understand the class structure of American society," said Smetana, "or you would not ask such a question. In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists."
The experiences of Harry Truman verify exactly what Whittaker Chambers said, huh?
