Category: History

In his book “Freedom Betrayed,” former US President Herbert Hoover collects sources that reinforce his contention that the FDR administration manipulated Japan into providing casus belli so that the US could enter the War both in Europe and in the Orient. Put directly, Hoover contends that the FDR administration wanted the Japs to give the US justification in plunging the Nation into a war, that up till the time of Pearl Harbor, American had been vociferously opposed to. These sources are taken from pages 306-310 of Hoovers work. I will also give the sources that Hoover quotes from.

Source #1 — Minority Report from the 1945 Congressional Pearl Harbor investigation established in 1945.

[Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack:] Report of the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor attack, 79th Congress, 2d Session, Senate Document No. 244 [United States Government Printing Office, Washington: 1946].

The minority report of the committee was filed by Senators Homer Ferguson (R) of Michigan, and Owen Brewster (R) of Maine.

“In the diplomatic documents, exhibits, and testimony before the Committee there is a wealth of evidence which underwrites the statement that the tactics of maneuvering the Japanese into ‘the position of firing the first shot’ were followed by high authorities in Washington after November 25, 1941….”

Source #2 — Admiral Robert A. Theobald — Commander of the Destroyer Division at Pearl Harbor

“Diplomatically, President Roosevelt’s strategy of forcing Japan to war by unremitting and ever increasing diplomatic-economic sanctions pressure, and by simultaneously holding our Fleet in Hawaii as an invitation to a surprise attack, was a complete success … One is forced to conclude that the anxiety to have Japan, beyond all possibility of dispute, commit the first act of war, caused the President and his civilian advisers to disregard the military advice which would somewhat have cushioned the blow.”

Rear Admiral Robert A. Theobold, U.S.N. (ret). The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor (The Devin Adair Company, New York: 1954), p. 5.

Source #3 — Admiral William H. Standley — Member Owen J. Roberts Commission

“The ‘incident’ (Pearl Harbor) which certain high officials in Washington had sought so assiduously in order to condition the American public for war with the Axis powers had been found….

Admiral William H. Standley, U.S.N. Ret., “More About Pearl Harbor,” in U.S. News and World Report, April 16, 1954.

Source #4 — “Pearl Harbor: The Story of the Secret War.” An exhaustive study of the Pearl Harbor attack by George Morgenstern

“… given the benefit of  every doubt … all of these men [the high authorities in Washington] still must answer for much. With absolute knowledge of war they refused to communicate that knowledge, clearly, unequivocally, and in time, to the men in the field upon whom the blow would fall ….

Pearl Harbor provided the American war party with the means of escaping dependence on a hesitant Congress in taking a reluctant people into war ….

Pearl Harbor was the first action of the acknowledged war, and the last battle of a secret war upon which the administration had long since embarked. The secret war upon which the administration had long since embarked. The secret war was waged against nations which the leadership of this country had chosen as enemies months before they became formal enemies by a declaration of war. It was waged also, by psychological means, by propaganda, and deception against the American people…. The people were told that acts which were equivalent to war were intended to keep the nation out of war. Constitutional processes existed only to be circumvented, until finally, the war making power of Congress was reduced to the act of ratifying an accomplished fact.”

George Morgenstern, Pearl Harbor: The Story of the Secret War (The Devin-Adair Company, New York: 1947), pp. 328-330.

Source #5 — William Henry Chamberlin, “America’s Second Crusade.”

“It is scarcely possible, in light of this [Admiral Stark’s testimony regarding President Roosevelt’s October 8, 1941 order to American warships in the Atlantic to fire on German ships] and many other known facts, to avoid the conclusion that the Roosevelt Administration sought the war which began at Pearl Harbor. The steps which made armed conflict inevitable were taken months before the conflict broke out.”

William Henry Chamberlin, America’s Second Crusade (Henry Regnery Company, Chicago: 1950), p. 353. 

Source #6 — George F. Kenann –Distinguished Diplomat of note

“… a policy carefully and realistically aimed at the avoidance of war with Japan … would certainly have produced a line of action considerably different from that which we actually pursued and would presumably have led to quite different results.”

George F. Kenann, American Diplomacy, 1900-1950 (The University of Chicago press, Chicago: 1951), p. 82.

Source #7 — Captain Russell Grenfell — British Historian

“No reasonably informed person can now believe that Japan made a villainous, unexpected attack on the United States. An attack was not only fully expected but was actually desired. It is beyond doubt that President Roosevelt wanted to get his country into the war, but for political reasons was most anxious to ensure that the first act of hostility came from the other side; for which reason he caused increasing pressure to be put on the Japanese, to a point that no self respecting nation could endure without resort to arms. Japan was meant by the American President to attack the United States. As Mr. Oliver Lyttelton, then British Minister of Production, said in 1944, ‘Japan was provoked into attacking America at Pearl Harbor. It is a travesty of history to say that America was forced into the war.”

Captain Russell Grenfell, R. N., Main Fleet to Singapore (The Macmillan Company, New York: 1952), pp. 107-108.

All of this strikes me as important to note on this Memorial day 2015. American have been lied to over and over again about our involvement in Wars. This same type of story could be told about how Lincoln manipulated the South in providing Causus belli in a war he desperately desired. This same type of story could be told about how Woodrow Wilson manipulated us into WW I. This same type of story could be told about how Lyndon Johnson false flagged us into the Vietnam War. Over and over again through the centuries our leadership has lied to us in order to propagandize us into war. “Weapons of Mass Destruction” anyone? Memorial day is a day to grieve that our sons have been spent in support of these liars and mass murderers. Our nations warrior dead believed in the ideals of fighting for liberty and home. They are not to be faulted. The fault lies upon those who deceived an all too often willingly gullible American public in joining in a war lust that should have never been.

In 1933 there was on the horizon in the Soviet Union the Metro-Vickers trial which the Western press desperately wanted to cover. Concurrently, to that time frame a young Welshman named Gareth Jones had taken a three week walk through the heart of what would be later known as the Holodomor and reported back, via dispatches clandestinely shuffled to England via Diplomatic bags, that more than political starvation was occurring in sundry parts of the Soviet Union. Garth Jones’ missives reinforced Malcolm Muggeridge’s prior pseudonymous reporting, back to England, that this was “more than a famine.” Muggeridge reported that it was a Military occupation and so political starvation. The Communists were, by malice aforethought, liquidating their opposition to collectivization.

The Soviets were desperate to discredit the young Welshman Jones and his reporting. The barely earlier reporting of Muggeridge had already been sabotaged due to the influence of his Leftist Aunt, Beatrice Webb. The Fabian, Beatrice Webb, had already successfully threatened a chap named Cairns, thus squashing a official report he had brought back to England on his observations about the conditions of the European “Bread-basket.” The way that Jones was undercut is what make this particularly ugly.

Remember that all this was happening concurrent with the upcoming Metro-Vickers trial. Western Foreign Correspondents desperately wanted to be able to cover this trial. Knowing this, the Soviet Bureaucrat in Charge of assigning journalists to the trial, made it known that the honor of journalist covering that Metro-Vickers trial was dependent upon their disavowing Gareth Jones and his story of death by famine.

The Western Journalists complied and led by the doyen of the Western Journalists, Walter Duranty, they disavowed Gareth Jones, insisting that Jones was exaggerating, even thought they knew that Jones was correct. Duranty himself, disemboweled Jones with a cabled article to the New York Times, that the New York Times dutifully printed. Duranty wrote in a published article,

” “Any report of a famine in Russia is today an exaggeration or malignant propaganda. The food shortage, however, which has affected the whole population in the last year and particularly in the grain-producing provinces—the Ukraine, North Caucasus, the Lower Volga—has, however, caused heavy loss of life.” Duranty concluded “it is conservative to suppose” that, in certain provinces with a total population of over 40 million, mortality had “at least trebled.”

Duranty’s method of discrediting Gareth Jones was to half Jones’ observations. Duranty knew what he was doing.

By the means of the leftist in the West, which included Sydney and Beatrice Webb as well as Walter Duranty, the news of the ugly slow death by starvation known as the Holodomor was suppressed and kept from Western News outlets. And the thing that really grinds people who know this story is that Duranty was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the Soviet Union. All these years later the New York Times refuses to return Liar Duranty’s award.

Decades letter the New York Times assigned a member of its editorial board, Karl Meyer, to write a signed editorial regarding Duranty’s work. In a scathing piece, Meyer said that Duranty’s articles were “some of the worst reporting to appear in this newspaper.” Duranty, Meyer said, had bet his career on Stalin’s rise and “strove to preserve it by ignoring or excusing Stalin’s crimes.” Four years earlier, in a review of Robert Conquest’s The Harvest of Sorrow, former Moscow bureau reporter Craig Whitney wrote that Duranty all but ignored the famine until it was almost over. Of course by this time all this was merely dirt on the graves.

The same tribe who would make their sufferings well known worked overtime making sure that the sufferings of others was blacked out.

As a result of the Soviet draconian measures foisted upon the Ukrainian Kulaks (arrests, house-searches, fines, confiscation of property. and even shooting) the Kulaks began to resist. There were instances of armed insurrections, assassinations of Party officials, stonings, and beatings but by far the most prevalent means of resistance to the Communist was the Kulaks scorched earth policy that found them slaughtering their own livestock so that it could not be commandeered by the Soviets. The Peasants were seeking to avoid collectivization even if it mean self impoverishment.

In February and March of 1930 alone 14 million head of cattle were destroyed, a ful 1/3 of all pigs, and 25% of all sheep and goats. By 1934 40% percent of all Cattle were gone and 60% of all sheep and goats. (Western estimates were far higher.)

As a consequence of this scorched earth policy Moscow decided that the Kulaks could not be collectivized and so must be liquidated as a class and so the Soviets did to the Kulaks what the Kulaks had been doing to their livestock.

The Communist Reprisals against the Kulaks is what we now call “The Holodomor.”

Information from
S. J. Taylor’s “Stalin’s Apologist” — pg. 162-163