PoliticalChic
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Sometimes when the truth is revealed....feelings are bruised. Especially when the one injured by the truth is a loved one.
The following was wailed....bleated....by one of the Leftist FDR-groupies.....(is that redundant?):
"How can you possibly blame Mao's victory in China on FDR? Not to mention the Korean War?"
FDR is the proximate cause of the Korean War, and of China becoming Communist.
So...the following is the exposition required.
1. President Roosevelt did many good things, but in the Leftist cosmos, Shakespeare's aphorism is turned upside-down: not "The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones" but, rather, there is neither recognition nor retribution for the evil....or, the evil consequences.
2. The Roosevelt administration was riddled with Soviet spies...folks who reported to Stalin....and advised FDR.
a. The major player in the Alger Hiss saga was fellow Communist, Whitaker Chambers. In his book, "Witness," Chambers explains his disillusionment. In 1938, he determined not only to break with the Communist Party, but to inform on the Party when he could. ... As Hitler marched into Poland, Chambers arranged a private meeting with Adolf Berle, President Roosevelts assistant Secy of State. Chambers detailed the Communist espionage network, naming at least two dozen Soviet spies in Roosevelts administration, including Alger Hiss. Berle reported this to Roosevelt, who laughed, and told Berle to go f--- himself.
Arthur Herman, "Joseph McCarthy: Reexaming the Life and Legacy of Americas Most Hated Senator," p. 60
No action was taken, and in fact, Roosevelt promoted Hiss.
3. Major George Racey Jordan was in charge of expediting materials to the USSR. He testified before Congress that materials and instructions to build that atomic bomb were sent. Jordan had proof that the orders he received from the White House insisted that everything requested be sent....priority! Even ahead of material the US army needed.
4. And the result, a disaster for America. On April 5, 1951, Judge Irving R. Kaufman sentenced the Rosenbergs to death for theft of atomic secrets, and, resulted in "the communist aggression in Korea, with the resultant casualties exceeding 50,000 and who knows but that millions more of innocent people may pay the price of your treason."
Judge Kaufman's Sentencing Statement in the Rosenberg Case
a. It is clear today, based on archival evidence, unearthed by researchers in Russia and released in the United States, that Kaufman was correct.
"Absent an atomic bomb, Stalin would not have released Pyongyang's army to conquer the entire Korean peninsula. Confident that his possession of atomic weapons neutralized America's strategic advantage, Stalin was emboldened to unleash war in Korea in 1950."
Haynes, Klehr, and Vassiliev, "Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America," p. 143, 545.
And Romerstein and Breindel,"The Venona Secrets," p. xv, 253.
b. It is important to connect the treachery with the impact of that treachery, the theft of the nuclear technology with 36,940 Americans killed, 91,134 wounded, and 8,176 still missing, and this does not include at least two million civilian lives claimed on both sides.
Bruce Cumings, "The Korean War: A History.'
Included were 1.3 million South Korean casualties, including 400,000 dead. North Korea, 2 million casualties, and 900,000 Chinese soldiers killed.
FDR's willingness, or blindness, resulted in the Korean War.
5. FDR's insistence on the Soviet agents who infiltrated his administration resulted in the United States sabotage of Chaing Kai-Shek and the Nationalists in China in favor of the Mao and the Communists.
From the book Blacklisted From History, by M. Stanton Evans: Soviet agents in the U.S. State department (and Treasury) worked actively to damage confidence of our government, in the (Nationalist) Chinese fighting in their own country, as our allies against the Japanese, and in favor of the Communist unsurgency of Mao Tse-Tung and Chou En-Lai.
While Chiang Kai-Shek was busy as our ally fighting the Japanese, White, Currie, Coe, Glasser, and Hiss were doing all they could to undermine him in favor of Mao and the communists.
a. Another example of [Harry Dexter] White acting as an agent of influence for the Soviet Union was his obstruction of a proposed $200 million loan to Nationalist China in 1943, which he had been officially instructed to execute,[52] at a time when inflation was spiraling out of control.
Harry Dexter White - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
b. [Owen] Lattimore was leaking information to the Soviets while he was an advisor to Chiang Kai-shek and that the Soviets considered Lattimore to be "working for them". http://foia.fbi.gov/owenlatt/owenlatt1a.pdf
c. The spies that FDR put in place continued to move Democrats in the Communist Direction. This, from a newspaper at the time:
"Mr. Truman said that the nationalists should have surrendered because they didn't have a chance to win...the opinion of American ambassador Leighton Stuart was that the failure of American aid to come at the opportune moment was the real cause of the weakness of nationalists and the disintegration of their armies....many military commanders went over to the enemy because they saw the United States withdrawing moral support from Chiang Kai-shek. Mr. Truman boldly defends what Treasury did. He doesn't mention Harry Dexter White, mentioned in congressional hearings as a communist spy, sat at Treasury with full power to say when the money promised Chiang Kai-shek would be forwarded or withheld." Toledo Blade, Toledo Blade - Google News Archive Search
As more and more scholarship is invested in FDR's tenure, it becomes easier to view the damage he caused.
"Can you possibly blame Mao's victory in China on FDR? Not to mention the Korean War?"
Absolutely.
The following was wailed....bleated....by one of the Leftist FDR-groupies.....(is that redundant?):
"How can you possibly blame Mao's victory in China on FDR? Not to mention the Korean War?"
FDR is the proximate cause of the Korean War, and of China becoming Communist.
So...the following is the exposition required.
1. President Roosevelt did many good things, but in the Leftist cosmos, Shakespeare's aphorism is turned upside-down: not "The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones" but, rather, there is neither recognition nor retribution for the evil....or, the evil consequences.
2. The Roosevelt administration was riddled with Soviet spies...folks who reported to Stalin....and advised FDR.
a. The major player in the Alger Hiss saga was fellow Communist, Whitaker Chambers. In his book, "Witness," Chambers explains his disillusionment. In 1938, he determined not only to break with the Communist Party, but to inform on the Party when he could. ... As Hitler marched into Poland, Chambers arranged a private meeting with Adolf Berle, President Roosevelts assistant Secy of State. Chambers detailed the Communist espionage network, naming at least two dozen Soviet spies in Roosevelts administration, including Alger Hiss. Berle reported this to Roosevelt, who laughed, and told Berle to go f--- himself.
Arthur Herman, "Joseph McCarthy: Reexaming the Life and Legacy of Americas Most Hated Senator," p. 60
No action was taken, and in fact, Roosevelt promoted Hiss.
3. Major George Racey Jordan was in charge of expediting materials to the USSR. He testified before Congress that materials and instructions to build that atomic bomb were sent. Jordan had proof that the orders he received from the White House insisted that everything requested be sent....priority! Even ahead of material the US army needed.
4. And the result, a disaster for America. On April 5, 1951, Judge Irving R. Kaufman sentenced the Rosenbergs to death for theft of atomic secrets, and, resulted in "the communist aggression in Korea, with the resultant casualties exceeding 50,000 and who knows but that millions more of innocent people may pay the price of your treason."
Judge Kaufman's Sentencing Statement in the Rosenberg Case
a. It is clear today, based on archival evidence, unearthed by researchers in Russia and released in the United States, that Kaufman was correct.
"Absent an atomic bomb, Stalin would not have released Pyongyang's army to conquer the entire Korean peninsula. Confident that his possession of atomic weapons neutralized America's strategic advantage, Stalin was emboldened to unleash war in Korea in 1950."
Haynes, Klehr, and Vassiliev, "Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America," p. 143, 545.
And Romerstein and Breindel,"The Venona Secrets," p. xv, 253.
b. It is important to connect the treachery with the impact of that treachery, the theft of the nuclear technology with 36,940 Americans killed, 91,134 wounded, and 8,176 still missing, and this does not include at least two million civilian lives claimed on both sides.
Bruce Cumings, "The Korean War: A History.'
Included were 1.3 million South Korean casualties, including 400,000 dead. North Korea, 2 million casualties, and 900,000 Chinese soldiers killed.
FDR's willingness, or blindness, resulted in the Korean War.
5. FDR's insistence on the Soviet agents who infiltrated his administration resulted in the United States sabotage of Chaing Kai-Shek and the Nationalists in China in favor of the Mao and the Communists.
From the book Blacklisted From History, by M. Stanton Evans: Soviet agents in the U.S. State department (and Treasury) worked actively to damage confidence of our government, in the (Nationalist) Chinese fighting in their own country, as our allies against the Japanese, and in favor of the Communist unsurgency of Mao Tse-Tung and Chou En-Lai.
While Chiang Kai-Shek was busy as our ally fighting the Japanese, White, Currie, Coe, Glasser, and Hiss were doing all they could to undermine him in favor of Mao and the communists.
a. Another example of [Harry Dexter] White acting as an agent of influence for the Soviet Union was his obstruction of a proposed $200 million loan to Nationalist China in 1943, which he had been officially instructed to execute,[52] at a time when inflation was spiraling out of control.
Harry Dexter White - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
b. [Owen] Lattimore was leaking information to the Soviets while he was an advisor to Chiang Kai-shek and that the Soviets considered Lattimore to be "working for them". http://foia.fbi.gov/owenlatt/owenlatt1a.pdf
c. The spies that FDR put in place continued to move Democrats in the Communist Direction. This, from a newspaper at the time:
"Mr. Truman said that the nationalists should have surrendered because they didn't have a chance to win...the opinion of American ambassador Leighton Stuart was that the failure of American aid to come at the opportune moment was the real cause of the weakness of nationalists and the disintegration of their armies....many military commanders went over to the enemy because they saw the United States withdrawing moral support from Chiang Kai-shek. Mr. Truman boldly defends what Treasury did. He doesn't mention Harry Dexter White, mentioned in congressional hearings as a communist spy, sat at Treasury with full power to say when the money promised Chiang Kai-shek would be forwarded or withheld." Toledo Blade, Toledo Blade - Google News Archive Search
As more and more scholarship is invested in FDR's tenure, it becomes easier to view the damage he caused.
"Can you possibly blame Mao's victory in China on FDR? Not to mention the Korean War?"
Absolutely.
