Symposium: Treason? (Klehr, Haynes, Estrich and Brennan detailed discussion of Coulter's book)

Frontpage Magazine ^ | 7/25/03 | Jamie Glazov

[PhilDragoo]

Not just the collapse of the Soviet Union and the opening of its files, but the collapse of the Leftist revisionist apologist facade at the point of the medieval seige engines including the coultrix.

The history of all hitherto existing post-war political divisions must now be examined anew.

Forrestal's death made way for Louis Johnson to become the Secretary of Defense to emasculate U.S. forces in Korea.

Truman prevented McArthur from pursuing the Chinese, relieved him of command, and the bloody "police action" proved a three-year exercise in futility.

The Soviets armed the NKs; the Chinese provided the leadership cadres with veterans of the Long March.

The U.S. was bloodied and humiliated--by placing the United Nations above it as arbiter of policy.

The acts of betrayal which began in the Truman administration, have ripples in the actions of the Carter and Clinton administrations.

These waters must be made safe before the next surprise a la the 1998 Taepodong over Japan.

[Mo1]

Bump for a later read

[DPB101]

On one occasion Mrs. Roosevelt invited forty senators to the White House to meet her petted group of officials of the American Youth Congress . . .

Youth Congress and the Communistic Blight

by Gene Tunney

"Liberty" Magazine
August 31, 1940

A champion of yesterday strikes a forthright blow at
a strange phenomenon in this America of today.
This year the American Youth Congress held what was, let us hope, its last convention. On doings of the preposterous gathering at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, I can report firsthand. I figured as the focus of some characteristic A. Y. C. dramatics. I had a part in a futile attempt to shake the Communist control of the outfit. There were speeches, resolutions, voting, prattling, mouthing, conniving. The result of it all was to convince me finally and forever that the American Youth Congress is a tentacle of Communism and can never be anything else. It is Red and will stay unalterably Red.

The babbling of the juvenile and not so juvenile Commies recalled to me rather sickeningly an experience nine years before. In 1931 I made a trip to Soviet Russia. I wanted to see Communism at first hand. The world depression was on, was in a downward spiral. Some people were predicting a complete revolution. About that time I read Maurice Hindus' book, Humanity Uprooted. He drew a beautiful and hopeful picture of Soviet Russia and of the progress of its people during thirteen years of Communism. So I went to see the Red Utopia.

What I witnessed during the short time I was there was enough to decide me for all time about the practical workings of Communism. Human beings brought up in the countries of our Western civilization, no matter how commonplace or simple their lives may be, cannot conceive of the actual conditions in Soviet Russia. They cannot imagine the wretchedness of the lives of the people--everybody except the commissars and their favorites . . .continued here

[Mo1]

Great assemblage of facts ! Keep 'em coming. Perhaps, we can finally get the truth out; though admittedly,even many here are still too consumed by the propaganda, to see the facts.

Some of us weren't aware of all the facts ... But I have to admit, Ann's book put many of the pieces together.

Whether one likes Ann or not, her book does get one to think and want to learn more about that period of time

Because that period of time explains alot of what we are seeing today

[nopardons]

Correct on all counts. :-)

[PhilDragoo]

Gene Tunney
Heavyweight Boxing Champion

The year following my visit, 1932, the Kremlin gang with their well fed and adequately clothed soldiers went down to the Ukraine to discipline the peasant farmers for refusing to obey the official order to collectivize. They killed and coerced. They emptied cellars and bins of food, and left the population to starve. It is estimated that between three and five million people starved to death, though that year there was a wheat surplus of one hundred fifty million bushels, more than enough to have saved every life. No communication with the stricken area was allowed the outside world. When Stalin disciplines, he disciplines, even to the extent of causing the greatest famine in history.

~~~

ALL THE LIES FIT TO PRINT
N.Y. Times 1932 Pulitzer could be revoked
Award to reporter who ignored Stalin's atrocities under review

Posted: June 10, 2003
8:00 p.m. Eastern

© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

Amid a devastating reporting scandal in the wake of which two top editors have resigned, the New York Times faces the possible loss of its 1932 Pulitzer Prize.

Times reporter Walter Duranty won the award more than 70 years ago for his reporting on the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin's communist regime. But several Ukranian-American groups, as part of their commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Ukranian Famine, are asking the Pulitzer board to revoke Duranty's award, arguing that the correspondent's sympathy for Stalin caused Duranty to ignore millions of deaths.

Indeed, the Pulitzer board is considering doing just that, reports the New York Sun. In April, the committee launched a review of Duranty's work.

Malcolm Muggeridge, the celebrated author and journalist, was one of the few able to get into the famine-ravaged lands of the U.S.S.R. and report on what he saw during that era. Later, Muggeridge described Duranty as "the greatest liar of any journalist I have met in 50 years of journalism."

Critics have long said that because of Duranty's manipulation of the news to placate Soviet authorities – especially Stalin – the scope of horror wrought by the communists in the pre-war U.S.S.R. was not fully comprehended until many years later. As a result, the public could not really gauge what communism was capable of, and what kind of man Stalin actually was. Robert Conquest's book "Harvest of Sorrow" and B.J. Taylor's "Stalin's Apologist" dissect Duranty's alleged journalistic misdeeds.

Ignored the deaths of millions

Stalin's man-made famine of 1932-33 was perhaps the largest mass killing in human history, likely surpassing even Hitler's extermination campaigns. It stretched from the Ukraine to Kazakstan in Central Asia – nearly 2,000 miles. Despite the extent and barbarity of the campaign, however, it didn't provoke Duranty to action.

The ongoing struggle between the Moscow government and small farmers in various regions who resisted collectivization of the land led to Stalin's planned famine, to force his will on those regions, as well as to destroy Ukrainian nationalism.

In reality, the great terror-famine wasn't caused by poor harvests or inadequate food supplies. In fact, during the 1932-33 famine the Soviet Union actually exported food.

Publicity regarding the famine would have damaged the image of the U.S.S.R., Stalin, and the spread of communism.

When occasionally reports of the famine were actually published in the Western press, contradicting reports quickly neutralized the original report and diluted their effect. Of all those involved in famine disinformation, Duranty, as Moscow correspondent for the prestigious New York Times, proved one of the most useful.

In 1932, Duranty wrote that there was no famine, nor "is there likely to be." Yet in September 1933, Duranty detailed to British diplomats how many had died and where: The North Caucasus and Lower Volga had lost 3 million people in the past year; Ukraine lost 4 to 5 million, and the total, Duranty stated, could be as high as 10 million.

For years, the media watchdog group Accuracy in Media has sought to set the record straight regarding Duranty, his reporting and his Pulitzer – the most coveted and honored award in journalism. A.I.M. approached both the Times and the Pulitzer Prize administrator about the issue. In a 1999 letter, Reed Irvine, chairman of A.I.M., pointed out that Duranty received special favors from Stalin's government, including a car and a mistress, designed to ensure the correspondent's cooperation.

Stating, "Trust in journalists and the media is at a low ebb," Irvine challenged the Pulitzer Prize administrator to meet the same standard as the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. In 1992 the Academy revoked a 1989 Grammy given to a musical group that later was found not actually to have sung its own lyrics.

No action was taken on the Duranty case at that time.

In the Pulitzer Prize's 86 years of existence, no award has ever been revoked, said an Associated Press account of the current review by the Pulitzer board. The Washington Post surrendered Janet Cooke's 1991 award voluntarily after she admitted fabricating stories.

Michael Sawkiw Jr., president of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, said more than 15,000 postcards and thousands more letters and e-mails were sent to the Pulitzer Board.

"Exactly like Jayson Blair, the heart of all this is journalistic integrity and ethics," Sawkiw told AP, referring to the disgraced Times reporter who falsified and plagiarized dozens of stories.

"Like any significant complaint, we take them seriously," Sig Gissler, the Pulitzer board administrator, responded in the AP account. "They are under review by a board subcommittee, and all aspects and ramifications will be considered."

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Our free copy of the New York Times lines the trash. That is the only use for what remains an anti-American propaganda sheet.

[DPB101]

In the Pulitzer Prize's 86 years of existence, no award has ever been revoked, said an Associated Press account of the current review by the Pulitzer board.

More disinformation from the left. While the prize has never been "revoked", it has been "withdrawn." The Pulitzer board voted to "withdraw" the prize from Janet Cooke of the Washington Post after discovering she had fabricated articles.

In case you missed it, full text articles by Walter Duranty and Gareth Jones (the Welsh reporter Duranty slandered and who had told the truth) are here:

http://colley.co.uk/garethjones/site_map.htm

There are a few articles by Macolm Muggeridge at the site as well.

[MEG33]

Dorothy Rabanowitz did not read the book She really disappointed me with her hit piece.

[Bernard Marx]

Dorothy Rabanowitz did not read the book She really disappointed me with her hit piece.

Me too. I'd developed a lot of respect for her thinking and opinions, especially on the WSJ TV show. But the pure emotional venom in her anti-Coulter piece was crystal clear to anyone who'd actually read "Treason." I guess we all have our blind spots but this is one that really disturbs me because it's a willful refusal to accept facts. Of course that's an affliction suffered by most "journalists." Getting back to your original question, making critical comments about a book you haven't read indicates total arrogance and reveals one as a fool.

[MEG33]

Well said.

[HISSKGB]

The Berlin Airlift ran from June 1948 to Sept.1949. It was a hugely expensive operation that involved almost 300,000 air flights and a loss of lives to bring in supplies to Soviet-blocked Berlin.

Was it Truman or Marshall that set up this disaster? At the end of the war America was the most powerful country in the world and yet our government officials ceded the Soviets all the territory surrounding Berlin which was then blockaded against us. Even food was denied entry into Berlin by the commies.

The dirty fingerprints of the liberal's darling Marshall are all over this very expensive military tactical error of giving the Soviets power in Germany they did not deserve. The failed haberdasher and political hack appears to only be a front man in the crusade to hand most of the world over to the communists.

Would there have even been a Cold War if honest men had been in charge in Washington?

[Map Kernow]

A` propos of Profs. Haynes and Klehr, I just noticed they published last month a book called: "In Denial: Historians, Communism, and Espionage." I haven't read it yet, but I think the title gives a good snapshot of the book's probable contents.

If Profs. Haynes and Klehr, as it appears by this book title, are having such a hard time convincing their fellow historians that YES, there really was communist infiltration of sensitive government positions under Roosevelt and Truman and YES, those communists really did conduct treasonous espionage against the US, then you can imagine what a time Ann's going to face (and is facing) in questioning the "forced consensus" about "McCarthyism."

[DPB101]

Haynes' assertion that the "back" of the CPUSA had been broken by 1950 is consistent with the thesis in the 1992 book he and Professor Klehr authored "The American Communist Movement: Storming Heaven Itself," that the 1948 campaign in which the CPUSA backed Henry Wallace for President effectively destroyed it as a political force. However, no one outside of the Communist party . . .ever expected the CPUSA to ever become an electoral force in American politics

Exactly. John Reed wrote off a Bolshevik takeover of America in 1918. From Lenin on, the goal was always to undermine America--to disarm and demoralize America using the Democratic Party as a proxy--not make the Communist Party a major player.

From the recently unsealed McCarthy transcrips (Volume 2)

The Chairman. Just by way of resume, Mr. Hawkins has been testifying as to what was told him by an undercover agent of the FBI. This undercover agent of the FBI is taken out of the underground by the FBI and will be available to testify on this court case on trial, and the Justice Department or the FBI has requested we not call this witness until after he has completed his testimony in the pending case, and as far as you understand, he will be available to testify at that time.

Mr. Cohn. Yes.

Mr. Surine. Mr. Hawkins, did this witness turn over to you a document concerning that meeting?

Mr. Hawkins. Yes, he did.

Mr. Surine. On December 4, 1952?

Mr. Hawkins. Yes,

Mr. Surine. I wonder if you could read that into the record? Describe what the document is?

Mr. Hawkins. The document lists five points listing the instructions and information that was given out at this Communist party meeting on December 4, 1952.

The Chairman. That will be inserted in the record. We will withhold any further testimony from Mr. Hawkins.

Mr. Cohn. Delete the name of the witness from that statement.

I. The present ``peace offensive'' is designed to be the last stage in the program of administering a ``sedative'' to the American people before the hammer of war falls on Continental United States. All functionaries have been alerted to concentrate on this present phase of the ``peace offensives'' for the purpose of building resistance to war and clamour for tax reduction so as to effect the defensive power of the Nation.

II. In line with the ``peace offensive,'' all trade union functionaries have been ordered to lay low, to make it appear that the class struggle has been sidetracked by the present Russian regime.

III. Actual ``operation propaganda'' is concentrating upon school, churches and children with principal reliance on front agencies, notably Civil Rights Congress.

IV. Senator McCarthy is among those listed for liquidation or murder--an American agent assigned to the job (L.B.).

V. The pending communist cases against known communist functionaries have been ordered dragged out for the purpose of diverting the attention of the American people to the `down in the mouth defendants' to make it appear that the communists apparatus U.S.A. is bankrupt, defunct and on its way to the prison, when actually, there has never been more money or more activity in the communist apparatus in the past eleven years.

[PhilDragoo]

What an excellent site. Gareth Jones presents the lucid truth, as here:

New York Times. Date: May 13th, 1933.

Mr. Jones Replies: Former Secretary of Lloyd George Tells of Observations in Russia

To the Editor of The New York Times:

On my return from Russia at the end of March, I stated in an interview in Berlin that everywhere I went in the Russian villages I heard the cry; “There is no bread, we are dying,” and that there was famine in the Soviet Union, menacing the lives of millions of people.

Walter Duranty, whom I must thank for his continued kindness and helpfulness to hundreds of American and British visitors to Moscow, immediately cabled a denial of the famine. He suggested that my judgment was only based on a forty-mile tramp through villages. He stated that he had inquired in Soviet commissariats and in the foreign embassies and had come to the conclusion that there was no famine, but that there was a “serious food shortage throughout the country … No actual starvation or deaths from starvation, but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition.”

Evidence From Several Sources.

While partially agreeing with my statement, he implied that my report was a “scare story” and compared it with certain fantastic prophecies of Soviet downfall. He also made the strange suggestion that I was forecasting the doom of the Soviet régime, a forecast I have never ventured.

I stand by my statement that Soviet Russia is suffering from a severe famine. It would be foolish to draw this conclusion from my tramp through a small part of vast Russia, although I must remind Mr. Duranty that it was my third visit to Russia, that I devoted four years of university life to the study of the Russian language and history and that on this occasion alone I visited in all twenty villages, not only in the Ukraine, but also in the black earth district, and in the Moscow region, and that I slept in peasants’ cottages, and did not immediately leave for the next village.

My first evidence was gathered from foreign observers. Since Mr. Duranty introduces consuls into the discussion, a thing I am loath to do, for they are official representatives of their countries and should not be quoted, may I say that I discussed the Russian situation with between twenty and thirty consuls and diplomatic representatives of various nations and that their evidence supported my point of view. But they are not allowed to express their views in the press, and therefore remain silent.

Journalists Are Handicapped.

Journalists, on the other hand, are allowed to write, but the censorship has turned them into masters of euphemism and understatement. Hence they give “famine” the polite name of “food shortage” and “starving to death” is softened down to read as “widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition.” Consuls are not so reticent in private conversation.

My second evidence was based on conversations with peasants who had migrated into the towns from various parts of Russia. Peasants from the richest parts of Russia coming into the towns for bread. Their story of the deaths in their villages from starvation and of the death of the greater part of their cattle and horses was tragic, and each conversation corroborated the previous one.

Third, my evidence was based upon letters written by German colonists in Russia, appealing for help to their compatriots in Germany. “My brother’s four children have died of hunger.” “We have had no bread for six months.” “If we do not get help from abroad, there is nothing left but to die of hunger.” Those are typical passages from these letters.

Statements by Peasants.

Fourth, I gathered evidence from journalists and technical experts who had been in the countryside. In The Manchester Guardian, which has been exceedingly sympathetic toward the Soviet régime, there appeared on March 25, 27 and 28 an excellent series of articles on “The Soviet and the Peasantry” (which had not been submitted to the censor). The correspondent, who had visited North Caucasus and the Ukraine, states: “To say that there is famine in some of the’ most fertile parts of Russia is to say much less than the truth: there is not only famine, but - in the case of the North Caucasus at least - a state of war, a military occupation.” Of the Ukraine, he writes: “The population is starving.”

My final evidence is based on my talks with hundreds of peasants. They were not the “kulaks”- those mythical scapegoats for the hunger in Russia-but ordinary peasants. I talked with them alone in Russian and jotted down their conversations, which are an unanswerable indictment of Soviet agricultural policy. The peasants said emphatically that the famine was worse than in 1921 and that fellow-villagers had died or were dying.

Mr. Duranty says that I saw in the villages no dead human beings nor animals. That is true, but one does not need a particularly nimble brain to grasp that even in the Russian famine districts the dead are buried and that there the dead animals are devoured.

May I in conclusion congratulate the Soviet Foreign Office on its skill in concealing the true situation in the U.S.S.R.? Moscow is not Russia, and the sight of well fed people there tends to hide the real Russia.

GARETH JONES.
London, May 1, 1933.

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What a bright light is Gareth Jones.

What a schmuck is Duranty, what a Soviet tool is the New York Times.

[DPB101]

Nigel Colley, Gareth Jones' grandnephew registered to post on FR. He and his mother do have a wonderful website.

Earlier this month, Nigel was kind enough to send a heads up to previously unpublished letters Gareth Jones received from the Ukraine in 1933:

German letters from May, 1933

" . . .We have been eating grass for the past two weeks. I even went to a little hill where a dead horse lay, and ate some of it. My husband is ill, his body is swollen, my children are swollen. The doctor claims that the people will be dropping like flies, due to the hot weather. Forty people have already been buried every day in a neighbouring Russian village. A German village lays claim to fifteen dead per day. Whole families lay unburied on the paths of the steppes for weeks. No one cares. Cats and dogs are eaten.

An underground trade organisation has been formed in the nearby town of Armawir, where people are slaughtered and are turned into sausages and cutlets, to be sold for food . . .

We have nothing! Oh Lord, where can we find help, who will pity us? Oh dear uncle, please find help for us unhappy people. Oh, pity us. Oh brothers and sisters, may the Lord put this letter into your hands. Please put your hands together to save us from starvation. Oh, help, help, please, please! Soon I will no longer exist, soon the flood of death will wash over me

[PhilDragoo]

And now we have that starvation in North Korea.

The Clinton company allowed Chia Head to make fuel from his reactor under the cover of the "agreed framework".

Accessories to that include Carter, Albright, Richardson.

So-called humanitarian assistance does not get past Pyongyang. Foreign observers are not allowed to travel and report as did Gareth Jones in Russia.

The NK people starve, the army eats, the insane tyrant gorges on feast and pleasure women, spending his weapons income on more weapons.

Uday Hussein visited Kim Jong Il to conduct arms business and now one of these two is a good terrorist.

The sooner we make the survivor an offer he cannot refuse the sooner God quits tapping the table impatiently.

Let past be prologue: let no aid be given without unlimited access to the countryside.

[Grampa Dave]

What I find amazing are the conservatives who finally woke up a little about the NY Slimes with the Jason Blair fiasco.

The Slimes has been a lying sack of treasonous pus festering and poisoning America since at least the 1930's.

Walter Duranty is just one example or the lying traitors posing as journalists for the Slimes.

[nopardons]

And Arrafat just sent flowers to Kim Jung Il.

[nopardons]

Exactly so.

[PhilDragoo]

Speaking of in denial, CNN's "Cold War" presents the Left's revisionist history, a parroting of the Soviet line of war-mongering imperialists encircling the peaceloving Soviet peoples.

CNN's Eason Jordan admitted to concealing Saddam Hussein's reign of terror.

In like fashion CNN has served as Fidel Castro's Megaphone for a Dictator.

CNN foisted the hoax of the No Gun Ri "massacre" (see also Jenin "massacre") using a "witness" who was not present (remote viewing?).

CNN also hyped the hoax of Operation Tailwind, claiming U.S. forces used nerve gas on defectors.

The power of denial is enormous.

An army engineer who worked with General Motors on new tank designs in the sixties actually believes tests duplicated Lee Harvey Oswald's "marksmanship".

Los Alamos scientists I have spoken with find nothing odd about Wen Ho Lee downloading data on all U.S. warheads at hours when he was sure to be alone, then "misplacing" or "destroying" the tapes he so painstakingly made.

For such behaviors, Michael Savage says liberalism is not a political philosophy but a mental disorder.