1.If you are mired in the moment, perhaps a government school grad who really never learned our history, you may believe that the current war between the establishment Democrat Party and the Stalin-Mao element, is the only time that sort of battle has taken place.???
Far more significant was the same battle that took place between the Franklin Roosevelt foreign policy faction, and the Harry Truman view that saved America.
2. Time-wise, Roosevelt and Truman never faced off over policy, and Truman didn’t come to his doctrine until after FDR was dead, largely because Roosevelt didn’t share the information with Truman that his vice-president learned after FDR’s death.
This should tell you all you need to know about the relationship: Stalin knew we had the atomic bomb before Truman did.
FDR died April 12, 1945
“President Harry Truman learns the full details of the Manhattan Project, in which scientists are attempting to create the first atomic bomb, on [April 24th] in 1945.”
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/truman-is-briefed-on-manhattan-project
3. Stalin was privy to everything in the Roosevelt administration, because FDR welcomed “Uncle Joe’s” spies.
The major player in the Alger Hiss saga was fellow Communist, Whitaker Chambers. In his book, Witness, Chambers explains is disillusionment as follows. In 1938, he determined not only to break with the Communist Party, but to inform on the Party when he could. The reason was that he was informed that Stalin was making efforts to align with Hitler, in 1939, and “from any human point of view, the pact was evil.” As Hitler marched into Poland, Chambers arranged a private meeting with Adolf Berle, President Roosevelt’s assistant Sec’y of State. Chambers detailed the Communist espionage network, naming at least two dozen Soviet spies in Roosevelt’s 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 America’s Most Hated Senator," p. 60
No action was taken, and in fact, Roosevelt promoted Hiss.
Almost a decade later, Chambers was called before the HUAC and named Hiss as a Soviet agent. Hiss sued Chambers, at which time Chambers presented “… four notes in Alger Hiss's handwriting, sixty-five typewritten copies of State Department documents and five strips of microfilm, some of which contained photographs of State Department documents. The press came to call these the "Pumpkin Papers"
(Whittaker Chambers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
And, of course, all doubt was removed in 1995, when the Venona Soviet cables were decrypted.
FDR’s pro-Soviet agenda is hardly different from that of Sanders, et al today.
Truman’s saving of America….coming up.
Far more significant was the same battle that took place between the Franklin Roosevelt foreign policy faction, and the Harry Truman view that saved America.
2. Time-wise, Roosevelt and Truman never faced off over policy, and Truman didn’t come to his doctrine until after FDR was dead, largely because Roosevelt didn’t share the information with Truman that his vice-president learned after FDR’s death.
This should tell you all you need to know about the relationship: Stalin knew we had the atomic bomb before Truman did.
FDR died April 12, 1945
“President Harry Truman learns the full details of the Manhattan Project, in which scientists are attempting to create the first atomic bomb, on [April 24th] in 1945.”
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/truman-is-briefed-on-manhattan-project
3. Stalin was privy to everything in the Roosevelt administration, because FDR welcomed “Uncle Joe’s” spies.
The major player in the Alger Hiss saga was fellow Communist, Whitaker Chambers. In his book, Witness, Chambers explains is disillusionment as follows. In 1938, he determined not only to break with the Communist Party, but to inform on the Party when he could. The reason was that he was informed that Stalin was making efforts to align with Hitler, in 1939, and “from any human point of view, the pact was evil.” As Hitler marched into Poland, Chambers arranged a private meeting with Adolf Berle, President Roosevelt’s assistant Sec’y of State. Chambers detailed the Communist espionage network, naming at least two dozen Soviet spies in Roosevelt’s 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 America’s Most Hated Senator," p. 60
No action was taken, and in fact, Roosevelt promoted Hiss.
Almost a decade later, Chambers was called before the HUAC and named Hiss as a Soviet agent. Hiss sued Chambers, at which time Chambers presented “… four notes in Alger Hiss's handwriting, sixty-five typewritten copies of State Department documents and five strips of microfilm, some of which contained photographs of State Department documents. The press came to call these the "Pumpkin Papers"
(Whittaker Chambers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
And, of course, all doubt was removed in 1995, when the Venona Soviet cables were decrypted.
FDR’s pro-Soviet agenda is hardly different from that of Sanders, et al today.
Truman’s saving of America….coming up.
