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Just finished chapter 9. Great book.
Posted on 06/26/2003 1:45:41 PM PDT by Jean S
Leftists, says Ann Coulter in her best-selling new book, "Treason: Liberal Treachery From the Cold War to the War on Terrorism," "have a preternatural gift for striking a position on the side of treason." She goes on to prove that charge.
She begins with the earliest days of Soviet efforts to honeycomb the U.S. government with covert agents, all them traitors to their country yet heroes to the great majority of the "liberals" of those days. She starts with the Roosevelt administration and what later became the infamous case of Alger Hiss.
Worried about the extent of communist penetration of the U.S. government, former Soviet agent and Time magazine editor Whitaker Chambers flew to Washington to alert the Roosevelt administration of the hidden peril.
He met with Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle, a Roosevelt confidant, and explained in great detail the Soviet espionage network working within the federal government, giving him the names of at least two dozen spies who had wormed their way into the deepest recesses of the administration.
Among the names he gave Berle were those of Alger Hiss, a top State Department official, and his brother Donald.
In her book Coulter reveals what happened next.
"Berle urgently reported to President Roosevelt what Chambers had said, including the warning about Alger Hiss. The president laughed and told Berle to "go f--- himself."
Coulter notes that instead of taking action against Hiss and the other named spies, "Roosevelt promoted Hiss to the position of trusted aide who would go with him to advise him at Yalta." It was at that summit conference with Stalin and Churchill that Roosevelt, with Hiss at his side whispering his "advice" in his ear, sold Eastern Europe into Soviet captivity.
When the former ambassador to Russia, William C. Bullitt, a close associate of Roosevelt, learned about Hiss and the others, he went to Roosevelt and also got the laugh-off treatment.
The tragedy continued. Berle went to Dean Acheson, then Roosevelt's undersecretary of the Treasury. He refused to believe Berle and later, when he became assistant secretary of state, he immediately asked that Donald Hiss become his assistant, Coulter reveals. When Berle reminded him that Hiss had been identified as a Soviet spy, Acheson "investigated" the charge - he asked Soviet spy Donald Hiss if he were a Soviet spy. Not surprisingly, Soviet spy Donald Hiss said he was not a Soviet spy.
Years later, after Alger Hiss was convicted of lying about his role as a Soviet agent, Acheson said he would not "turn [his] back on Alger Hiss," the man federal prosecutor Thomas Murphy called a "traitor to his country" and a Soviet agent.
And it was also years later that Hiss was finally brought to justice, thanks to Chambers' testimony - which made him a target of the vast number of Soviet sympathizers in the media - and to the dogged investigative work of then-Rep. Richard Nixon and House Committee on Un-American Activities chief investigator Bob Stripling.
In her book, Coulter carefully lays out the facts about the Hiss case, and shows how liberals fought to cover up the vast network of Soviet spies that had infiltrated the highest levels of the U.S. government. She reveals in graphic detail that it was those who sought to expose communist espionage who were attacked and slandered, while the spies and their supporters were rewarded and praised by the leftist establishment.
The difference between one, such as FDR, who would consent to the enslavement of millions of people, and someone, such as Ronald Reagan, who would devote his live to the freeing of those millions is all but indescribable. How do words capture the sentiment?
We have 100 Million people in this country who would say FDR was the "greater" president. Sad!!!
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Just finished chapter 9. Great book.
I have another reason for reading the book - my last name is Rhodes - no relation. And I can assure you that my legs aren't anything close to Ann Coulter's either!
Truman said Stalin often got Roosevelt drunk at meetings. Truman said Stalin always drank vodka. At the Yalta meeting Truman picked up Stalins glass and tasted it.... Truman said it was plain water.
There was much spin put on the close relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt, but by examining in the conflicts between Churchill and Stalin you will see how often Roosevelt came down on the side of Stalin... That is some confirmation of Roosevelt's underling status to Stalin.
Roosevelt used the media "Drew Pearson" to take down General Patton. Roosevelt would not tolerate any statements against Stalin and Communism. Patton certainly recognized the threat posed to us by the Soviet Union. But Truman also bought the spin of ("can't we all just get along") Dean Acheson. Truman called the case against Alger Hiss a read hearing. When Acheson was Secretary of State under Truman... many referred to Acheson as the RED DEAN. It was Acheson who told the world we did not care about Korea... That stupid statement lead to the Korean war and 50 thousand American deaths.
Nearly all of the Soviet Spies were recruited and placed in our government during the Roosevelt administration.
I think Roosevelt like many who are born to riches and power they did not earn, are very attracted to a system of enforced equality. They espouse a system in which they could not even exist. Jane Fonda is an example. Who believes her movie success is because of her dad Henry Fonda. The funny thing is such people do indeed embrace the Communist ideal, but never want to give up their own wealth, power, or fame.
Nearly all of the Soviet Spies were recruited and placed in our government during the Roosevelt administration.
'CFR'....and,...'Mirrors'......?
Does that help?
At lunch,....eating fine food?
Don't chew with your mouth open?
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