Posted on 10/02/2011 5:45:54 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
I'll refer you both to this brief biography of Martin Dies,
and this short biography on Joseph McCarthy.
Now what strikes me most about them is that, in effect, Congressman Martin Dies is Senator Joseph McCarthy's political father.
Dies was the anti-Communist McCarthy of his age, starting about 15 years before McCarthy became prominent.
Today, much is known and remembered about "tail gunner Joe" -- for better and for worse -- very little about Martin Dies.
But like McCarthy, Dies sometimes flopped and floundered around, accusing even the likes of 10 year old Shirley Temple of supporting Communist activities.
But both were trying to point out a large and growing problem -- Communist agents and influence in the government, unions, Hollywood & elsewhere.
And for Dies, some of his investigations came during a time when the Soviet Union was America's staunch ally against the Axis forces.
So Dies had no love for Roosevelt, and his 1964 article in a John Birch Society magazine tells us that Dies was way far-off in the hinterlands of "right-wing extremism" by then.
Still, the question remains: does all that make Dies a liar?
Would a man who accused 10 year old Shirley Temple of supporting Communist activities also invent the accusation that President Roosevelt ignored Dies' warning before Pearl Harbor?
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/02.htm
October 2nd, 1941
UNITED KINGDOM: Escort Carrier HMS Charger is commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)
FRANCE: Paris: During the night explosive charges destroy six synagogues. SS Standartenführer Helmut Knochen and the SD are thought to be responsible. One of Knochen’s men, Obersturmführer Hans Sommer, had provided the dynamite and the transport to a small flying squad, who were all members of Eugène Deloncle’s MSR (Mouvement Social Révolutionnaire a Fascist organisation).
GERMANY: Peenemunde: The Messerschimdt ME-163A rocket aircraft has today recorded a top speed of 623.85mph.
Previous flights showed that the aircraft expended almost all its fuel climbing to altitude. Today test pilot Heini Dittmar was towed to 13,000 feet by a Bf110 before casting off. Dittmar said that the Me163 suffered severe vibration and loss of control for a moment and he had thought that he had “had it at last”.
Security will prevent the Germans claiming it as an official world record.
The SS executes Czech premier Alois Elias in Berlin. (Jack McKillop)
U-598 launched.
U-377, U-590 commissioned.
U-636 and U-821 laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)
LITHUANIA: Zagare: SS Einsatzkommandos machine-gun 2,146 Jews to death.
FINLAND: MTB Nuoli and Sisu attack enemy ships in Suursaari harbour, without results. (Dave Shirlaw)
U.S.S.R.: The German attack on Moscow, Operation Typhoon, officially begins today. Hoth’s 3rd and Hoeppner’s 4th Panzer Groups, the 4th, 2nd and 9th Armies all join Guderian’s units which started 2 days ago.
2,000 German tanks advanced against the Russian lines in this the “last, great decisive battle of the war”, according to Hitler, in a communiqué to his troops, broadcast before the battle commenced.
Forces have been withdrawn from south and north to boost the German assault, which many generals had wanted to make several weeks ago before Hitler ordered a diversion to capture industrial and coal-mining areas in the south.
Today’s attack makes rapid progress. It needs to as it faces not only dogged Soviet resistance, but also the onset of the Russian winter.
For Leningrad, this assault has offered some respite. Field Marshal von Leeb has failed to take the city by storm, and his tanks have been assigned to Typhoon. Hitler still expects von Leeb to succeed, using artillery and aerial bombardment and the oldest siege weapon, starvation. Hitler says Leningrad “will fall like a leaf.”
In Leningrad itself over 4,000 have died in 200 artillery bombardments and 23 air raids in the past month. The first deaths from starvation have been reported.
AUSTRALIA: The ruling coalition government of the United Australia Party and the United Country Party in Australia falls. The Labor Party, with John Curtin as Prime Minister, takes office. (Ric Pelvin)
COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES: MacArthur chooses Brereton, whom he had known in the Firs World War, as his Air Commander. (Marc James Small)
CANADA: Corvette HMCS Louisburg commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)
U.S.A.: Baseball!
President Franklin D. Roosevelt rejects Japanese Prime Minister Konoye’s request to meet and discuss Pacific and Far Eastern questions.
Destroyers USS Fletcher and Radford laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)
The motion picture “One Foot in Heaven” is released today. Directed by Irving Rapper, this drama stars Fredric March, Martha Scott, Beulah Bondi and Gene Lockhart; Gig Young appears in an uncredited bit part. The plot concerns a minister and his wife facing various problems as church life and 20th century America clash. The film is nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award but loses to “How Green Was My Valley.”
ATLANTIC OCEAN: U-431 sank SS Hatasu in Convoy ON-19.
U-562 sank SS Empire Wave in Convoy ON-19.
U-94 sank SS San Florentino. (Dave Shirlaw)
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