Freedom Betrayed

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1. FREEDOM BETRAYED
3. Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover's Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath
4. Herbert Hoover was the author of more than 30 books and the Founder of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University.
6. Hoover with his wife Lou their two sons and daughter in law
14. The trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange just after the crash of 1929.
15. 1931-36 - Police stand guard outside the entrance to New York's closed World Exchange Bank, March 20, 1931
16. Herbert Hoover (President of the United States from 1929 to 1933) was an internationally acclaimed humanitarian who saved literally millions of lives with his food relief programmes, during and after the First World War and during the Second World War.
17. Hoover appeals for relief for suffering Poland, Pulaski memorial Day, NY Oct 11 1939
18. Advert for a Finnish Relief mass meeting, NY City, Dec 1939
19. Hoover and actress Gertrude Lawrence at an auction to raise money for Finland during the Russo-Finnish war of 1939
20. Celebrities for Finnish relief Tallulah Bankhead, Hoover, Helen Hayes and Katherine Hepburn at a luncheon NY Jan 12 1940
21. Advert for book co-authored by Hoover in 1942 about war and peace, NY Times, 30 Jun
22. Hoover and friend Hugh Gibson disembarking from military transport plane during international food relief mission, Spring 1946
23. After World War 2, the American Relief Administration, established by Hoover, fed 2 million starving Poles daily, including the children pictured here
24. Hoover & associates visit the devastated cities of Europe, April 2, 1946
25. Hoover visits the ruins of European cities, April 1946
26. Hoover visits war orphans, Europe, Apr 2 1946
27. 1947 Herbert Hoover on Food Planning Mission after the war in Europe
28. It is a tragedy that his book: Freedom Betrayed, was not published during his lifetime. Invaluable History
29. This invaluable historical analysis is of immense significance for anyone wanting to understand the pivotal event of the 20th century: The Second World War.
30. Imagine spending 20 years writing and rewriting a monumental tome dissecting 20th century global conflicts, only to have it be supressed & sit in storage for nearly five more decades!
31. Such was the fate of the book Herbert Hoover called his Magnum Opus: a heavily documented effort to expose hidden aspects of U.S. foreign policy before, during and after World War II.
32. Before he could bring his book to print, President Hoover died suddenly.
33. After being suppressed for half a century, Herbert Hoover's book is now in print and available, shattering prevailing myths and exposing shocking treachery at the highest levels. Shattering Myths
34. Freedom Betrayed, the manuscript that America's 31st president completed in 1963, is at last in print (Hoover Institution Press). Uncomfortable Truths
35. Edited and introduced by historian George H. Nash, the 900-page memoir offers an encyclopaedia of uncomfortable truths that seriously challenge the traditional views of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt
36. and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
37. Herbert Hoover engaged in thorough investigation for over 20 years, examining all the evidence, personally meeting with world leaders across the continents, The Worst Catastrophe
38. Hoover and President Wilhelm Miklas of Austria, Mar 4 1938
39. Herbert Hoover meets Adolf Hitler, Berlin, March 8, 1938
40. Hoover meets President Ignatz Moscicki of Poland , 12 Mar, 1938
41. President Kyosti Kallio of Finland and Hoover, Helsinki, Finland, 15 Mar, 1938
42. Pope Pius XII and Hoover discuss European food problems, Vatican , 23 March, 1946
43. Hoover and Gandhi after a conference on India's food problems, New Delhi, 23 Apr, 1946
44. General Douglas MacArthur and Hoover in Tokyo, Japan, 7 May 1946
45. President Harry Truman and Hoover confer about European food problems.
46. Herbert Hoover came to the conclusion that the US alliance with the Soviet Union & the Second World War was "the worst thing that could happen to civilisation."
47. Roosevelt engineered the U.S. entry into World War II despite public and congressional anti-war sentiment.
48. This, in the face of his 1940 campaign promise: "I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars."
49. In the author's view, the wise course would have been to let Russia's Stalin and Germany's Hitler —"destroy each other."
50. American territory was never threatened by the Germans, and even Western Europe would have remained unscathed had it not attempted to stop Germany's eastward push.
51. Instead, by partnering with Stalin to defeat Hitler, Roosevelt and Churchill gave communism legitimacy.
52. Herbert Hoover personally warned British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, 22 March 1938, that "another World War would probably destroy the British Empire" and that British involvement in the war must be avoided at all costs. Self-Destructive
53. He advised that if Germany be given freedom to rectify the injustices of the Versailles Treaty there would be no threat to Western Europe. Rectifying the Injustices of Versailles
54. US Secretary of State Lansing said of the peace treaty he and President Wilson brought home: “The Versailles Treaty menaces the existence of civilization.”
55. "He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God?“ Micah 6:8
56. "He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the just, both of them alike are an abomination to the Lord." Proverbs 17:15
57. Hoover was convinced that Germany was looking Eastward. "The Germans are the most virile people in the continent, a land people and not a sea people, whose vision was towards the East."
58. If "another Armageddon was coming", his hope was that it would come "on the plains of Russia, not on the frontiers of France." Salvaging Soviet Despotism
59. "Western civilisation will be infinitely better off if the Germans fight in the East, instead of the West.
60. It would be a disaster if the Western democracies were dragged down by war, the end result which would be to save the cruel Soviet despotism in Russia."
61. Herbert Hoover sounded the alarm against Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal: "A dangerous collectivist assault on the traditional American system of ordered liberty." Disastrous Consequences
62. He warned that one of the lessons from The Great War (1914-1918) was "the victors suffer almost equally with the vanquished in economic misery and 'spiritual degradation.'"
63. He warned that in war the resultant inflation "confiscates the savings of all." The result of America going into another war would be…
64. increased despotism under a centralised, increasingly intrusive, government at home.
65. He warned of the rise of dictatorships on both sides of the Atlantic and planned economies with "increased government debts and deficits."
66. Hoover, in public meetings and his writings, before WWII, warned that Americans should harden their resolves to "keep out of other peoples wars" and "We should convince Europe that this is our policy. Keep Out of Other Peoples Wars
67. We should have nothing to do with other peoples wars." Hoover emphasized: we must keep peace with dictatorships, as well as with popular governments.
68. "The forms of government which other peoples pass through in working out their destinies is not our business. We can never herd the world into the paths of righteousness with the dogs of war."
69. He rejected FDR's schemes for "preserving peace by making war“ and proposed that Americans rather mobilise "the collective moral courses to prevent war." You Cannot Make Peace by Waging War
70. "The greatest service that this nation can give to the future of humanity, is to revitalise and purify our own democracy, insisting upon intellectual honesty and keep out of war."
71. Hoover recommended "rectifying the injustices of the Treaty of Versailles", as the best safeguard against war.
72. He insisted that "America itself has nothing militarily to fear. There is not the remotest chance that our national independence will be challenged from abroad." Corruption from Within
73. The danger was from intellectual and economic collectivism, which was corrupting America from within. America was suffering "a moral regression in government."
74. As a direct result of the Roosevelt's administration's "flagrant misuse of patronage, budgetary trickery, propaganda and repulsive demonization of the New Deal opponents – to the point that our very system of self-government is in danger."
75. "America is on the path of creeping collectivism, hostile to liberty itself." "Economic and political freedom are organically connected."
76. Hoover was convinced that American intervention in Europe's wars would "ultimately be futile." "We can make war, but we do not and cannot make peace in Europe." Counter Productive
77. Europe is a continent, plagued with "mixed populations", contested borders, and animosity stretching back a thousand years.
78. If America were to ally herself with France, she would find herself on the side of the dictatorial Soviet Union. America can best serve the world and liberty itself by staying aloof from Europe's wars.
79. He was convinced that Germany did not want any war with the Western powers "unless these democracies interfere with their spread Eastward."
80. When on 31 March 1939, Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain solemnly informed the House of Commons that the British Government had provided a unilateral war guarantee to Poland, if their territory was threatened, Throwing Western Civilisation Under the Steam Roller
81. Hoover was "utterly astonished." "It is simply throwing the body of Western civilisation in front of Hitler's steam roller, which is on its way to Russia!"
82. Hoover was convinced that "By issuing its fateful guarantee to Poland, the British had committed a gigantic blunder – the greatest in their history. They have gotten in the way of the inevitable war between Hitler and Stalin." Gigantic Political Blunder
83. However, increasingly President Hoover came to recognise that the greatest "threat to America's peace and well-being" was not coming from Berlin, or London, but "Washington D.C., in the devious, meddlesome diplomacy of Franklin Roosevelt." The Greatest Threat
86. In July 1939, Herbert Hoover proposed that all nations "should agree not to attack food ships in war time and not to bomb civilian populations. Protect Civilians from Bombardment and Food Supplies from Blockade
87. Food vessels should go freely and bombing should target only armies, navies and ammunition works", and never civilian populations.
88. Hoover urged that a commission of neutral nations manage the delivery of food to any blockaded countries and that civilian observers from neutral countries be stationed in belligerent countries to determine the facts and ensure that no civilians are bombed from the air.
89. Hoover's vision was of an America peaceful, humane, and politically neutral, holding the light of liberty and the standards of decency in the world, devoted to Law, economic co-operation, moral influence, a reduction of armaments, and relief for victims of persecution. A Positive Foreign Policy
90. All of this, he said, would be jeopardised if America became a belligerent involved in these "foreign wars". He emphasised that there is no issue in Europe that America should go to war over. "Whatever our sympathies are, we cannot solve the problems of Europe."
91. He urged that the sale of offensive weapons, such as bomber aircraft and submarines and any weapons that could terrorise civilians, such as bombs, should be totally prohibited. Weapons of War
92. Yet, as he documented, even while this was completely illegal according to the laws of the United States, its president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was shipping colossal quantities (billions of Dollars' worth) of military weapons to Stalin's dictatorship in the Soviet Union.
93. Hoover exposed the "sheer hysteria" being whipped up by FDR's speeches. Dangerous Distractions
94. He came to the conclusion that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was actually behind Great Britain's war guarantee to Poland and Poland's sudden unwillingness to negotiate handing back Danzig to Germany.
95. The American president was "whipping up a war scare to distract Americans from the total domestic failure of his administration."
96. "I do not believe for one moment that these democracies are in any danger of attack from Germany... Aggressive Alliance
97. I am convinced it is Roosevelt's action which has stirred public opinion in France and England into the abandonment of their appeasement policy and into an aggressive alliance."
98. By so doing, Roosevelt had "measurably advanced the possibilities of war in the world, and the end of that war to save democracy, will be that there will be no democracy." Dooming Democracy
99. FDR's sensational, publicity stunts and public insults to Germany, "war-like acts of" economic sabotage marked a "radical departure" in American foreign policy - undermining liberty by "unconstrained executive power." Inflaming Emotions
100. Hoover wrote against the propaganda enflaming American emotions and minds and ominous "steps taken by our own government, which … entangle us with these very controversies, the end of which may be war."
104. "He has joined the chess board of Europe. He lines us up in the balance of power – a condition fraught with mortal peril."
105. Roosevelt engineered the U.S. entry into World War II, against the law of the land and despite public and congressional anti-war sentiment. False Promises
106. This, despite his 1940 campaign promise: "I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars."
107. In the author's view, the wise course would have been to let Russia's Stalin and Germany's Hitler - "destroy each other." Unwise
108. On 22 June 1941 Germany launched Operation Barbarossa - more than 4 million men, 3,500 armoured vehicles and 4,000 aircraft across the Soviet border
109. Operation Barbarossa was the largest military operation ever launched to that date. Operation Barbarossa
110. At the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, 22 June 1941, Germany faced a Soviet Army of 5, 774,000. The Soviet Union had 316 divisions, 117,600 artillery pieces, 25,700 tanks and 18,700 combat air craft. The Largest Conflict In History
111. The German Wehrmacht at this time had 5,200 tanks of which only 3,350 were committed to the Eastern front. This gave the Soviets more than 7 to 1 advantage in armour.
112. The Luftwaffe had just over 4,000 aircraft to oppose the 18,700 aircraft in the Soviet Air Force.
113. It was fought over a 2,900 km front and involved 600,000 motor vehicles and 750,000 horses for the German and European volunteers of this operation to liberate Russia from communism and end the Soviet threat to Europe.
114. In the first day, one quarter of the Soviet Union's Air Force was destroyed. Unprecedented
115. The German Blitzkrieg tactics devastated the Red Army and made stupendous progress.
116. However the further the Wehrmacht advanced into Russia, the more their logistical complications were compounded. Logistical Nightmare
117. The Russian infrastructure was primitive. Their dirt roads turned to mud. To supply the frontline troops became an almost impossible assignment.
118. By the end of that year Germany captured more than 500,000 square miles of the Soviet Union’s richest territory,
119. including about 75 million inhabitants (a little more than a third of the pre-invasion population), and 30 percent of its productive capacity.
120. On top of that, by the end of the year the USSR had lost in combat well over 3 million men
121. along with about 20,000 tanks, 18,000 military aircraft and more than 60,000 artillery pieces.
122. What no one had anticipated was the vast amount of aid which the United States of America would give to the Soviet Union. American Industry Bolstered the Soviet Union
123. Even before America entered WWII officially, vast quantities of military hardware began being flown, shipped and trucked into Russia via Alaska, Persia and Murmansk.
124. On 24 June 1941, Six months before the Pearl Harbour attack, President Roosevelt held a press conference in which he announced that America would give all possible help to Stalin’s Soviet Union.
125. That idea was at first not well received within the USA. An opinion poll conducted in July, for example, found 54 percent of the respondents were opposed to aiding the USSR. Roosevelt persisted, however and vast quantities of aid continued to flow….
126. British Invasion of Neutral Iceland as a base for supplying the Soviet Union with Allied Weapons of War
129. There were three main routes by which military aid to Russia /USSR was delivered. The Arctic convoys to Murmansk and Archangel were by far the most dangerous, but more than 50 percent of the supplies went by ship via the Pacific. American cargo ships flying the flag of the Soviet Union steamed to Vladivostok and unloaded supplies to be transported along the Trans-Siberian Railroad to Soviet assembly plants in the Urals
130. or directly to the front line. Despite German protests, Tokyo allowed the shipments to the Soviets to continue unhampered throughout the war.
131. In 1941 the Allies also opened a corridor through Iran into Russia. That route was made possible by the completion in 1939 of the Trans-Iranian Railroad, which linked the Persian Gulf with points all over Iran including the Russian border
132. the British and Soviets engaged in a joint operation to overthrow Shah Reza Pahlavi and seized control of Iran & it’s strategic railroad.
134. Thereafter Allied convoys from the US would sail around the Cape of Good Hope and unload their cargoes at ports in both Iraq and Iran. That route was responsible for deliveries of approximately 25 percent of the total supplies sent to Russia.
135. Also part of the Pacific passage was the Alaska-Siberian aircraft route (known by the acronym ALSIB), which was used primarily for the direct transfer of aircraft to Russia.
137. An official list of military hardware supplied by the USA to the USSR from 1941, includes: Gifts To Stalin
138. 13,713 Tanks & Armoured Vehicles;
157. 14,795 military aircraft;
168. 77,972 Jeeps;
169. 375,883 trucks;
173. 35,170 motorcycles;
174. 8,071 tractors; 15,631 artillery pieces; 131,633 machine guns;
175. 1,981 locomotives; 90 cargo ships;
176. 4,478,000 tonnes of food supplies;
177. $1,078,965,000 of machines and equipment;
178. 2,670,000 tonnes of petroleum products; 49,860 tonnes of leather; 3,786,000 tyres;
179. 15,417,000 pairs of army boots; 106,893,000 tonnes of cotton; building equipment valued at $10,000,910,000;
180. non-iron metals 802,000 tonnes;
181. along with 29 tankers; 433 combat ships,
182. the US provided over 2 million tons of petroleum products.
183. as well as mobile bridges, railroad equipment, aircraft radio equipment and many other items.
184. US also delivered about 470,000 tons of explosives,
186. 1.4 billion rounds of small arms ammunition, and 21 million rounds of ammunition of 37mm and larger sizes. The raw explosives delivered were enough for the Soviets to load more than 60 million artillery shells.
187. The US sent about 270,000 tons of rolled steel, enough to manufacture about 15,000 T-34 Tanks
188. All of the US effort resulted in an immense quantity of war materials delivered to the Soviet Union. The American aid can be broken down into three categories: weapons, support items and raw materials.
189. In terms of major weapon systems, the US delivered 11,400 aircraft, 7,165 tanks, 5,500 40mm antiaircraft guns, 1,000 quad-mounted 50 caliber anti-aircraft guns, 2,500 81mm mortars and 137,000 .45 caliber submachineguns.
190. The American provision of 1,981 locomotives, some 11,000 freight cars and 3,600 miles of railway track helped the USSR expand its rail capacity
191. American factories also sent 106 million yards of cotton cloth, 62 million yards of woolen cloth, and over 15 million pairs of boots. 225,000 cans of shoe polish, 50,000 hair clippers and 257 million buttons
192. This does not include the very generous aid given by Great Britain to the Soviet Union. British and Canadian Aid to the USSR
193. Great Britain sent the USSR: 5,218 tanks 5,511 Bofors anti-aircraft guns,
194. 5,042 tanks and 12 minesweepers.
195. Britain supplied 5,800 aircraft,
196. along with approximately 3,300 Hurricane and 1,000 Spitfire fighter aircraft.
197. The British sent over 1.7 billion dollars worth of supplies to Stalin’s Soviet Union.
198. Canada supplied the Soviet Union with 2,788 Tanks & Armoured Vehicles
199. Canada also supplied Stalin over a million artillary shells and 208,000 tonnes of wheat and flour.
200. There is no doubt that without the Western aid the Soviet Union wouldn’t have been able to survive a year.
201. Russian historian Boris Sokolov wrote in 1998: “Lend Lease was the decisive factor in the Soviet ability to continue the war.”
202. The British also formed a unit that fought directly for the Soviets in 1941. The first British deliveries included the personnel and all 40 Hurricanes of 151 Wing of the RAF.
203. From 11 September through 18 October,1941 those British pilots flew missions over Murmansk.
204. After training Soviets to fly their planes, the RAF personnel returned to England where their commander was awarded the Order of Lenin by the Soviet ambassador.
205. A series of increasingly fierce battles were fought over successive convoys to Murmansk . PQ-17 convoy in mid-1942 saw 24 merchantmen sunk out of 35 dispatched along with the loss of 153 seamen, 210 aircraft, 430 tanks and 100,000 tons of munitions.
206. The battle over that convoy was so intense that, as the merchantman Olopana approached survivors of the sunken Washington, those sailors refused rescue, figuring their odds of survival were greater in lifeboats on the open sea than on a fresh target for the Germans !
207. The colossal American military aid shipped to Stalin's Soviet Union was neither morally defensible, nor wise.
209. Capitalist America effectively salvaged the Communist dictatorship in Russia from collapse and helped fund, fuel and arm
210. the greatest military threat to Western civilization: the Soviet Union.
214. Freedom Betrayed documents the treacherous role played by the United States in fomenting the Second World War, escalating it, bailing out and supporting the worst mass-murdering dictatorship in the world, Stalin's Soviet Union, Treacherous Betrayal of Liberty
215. and betraying 15 nations of Eastern and Central Europe, with over 100 million Christians in them, to the hideous oppression of communist Russia and its NKVD Secret Police.
226. American territory was never threatened by Germany, and even Western Europe would have remained unscathed had it not attempted to stop Germany's eastward push to reclaim its lands and people taken away by the vindictive Versailles Treaty. Interference
227. Instead, by partnering with Stalin to defeat Hitler, Roosevelt and Churchill gave communism legitimacy, and provided the essential support that prevented the Soviet Union from collapsing as Operation Barbarossa was launched. Supporting Communism
228. Worse, by acceding to the Soviet dictator's territorial demands, they betrayed the very principles of universal self-determination they had proclaimed in The Atlantic Charter. Treachery
229. By November 1943, secret commitments by the Allies at their Tehran Conference constituted "the greatest blows to human freedom in this century." Catastrophic Betrayals
231. The Soviet Union would be allowed to annex Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bessarabia, Bukovina and parts of Finland and Poland and to secure a periphery of "friendly border states." Appeasing Communism
232. Thus, fifteen nations, over 100 million Christians, were betrayed to Communism and the independent life and freedoms they had enjoyed were snuffed out. Behind the Iron Curtain
233. "…Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord? Therefore the wrath of the Lord is upon you.” 2 Chronicles 19:2
234. Hoover documents Roosevelt's repeated assurances to Stalin that America would do nothing to thwart Soviet territorial ambitions in Europe. Stalin’s Ambitions
235. Freedom Betrayed indicts Roosevelt for instigating the war in the Pacific as well: Provoking War in the Pacific
236. His economic sanctions against Japan and shunning of Japanese peace overtures sparked the Pearl Harbour attack and ultimately led to
237. the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – "an act of unparalleled brutality in all American history."
238. Hoover cites other markers along the slippery slope of the Stalin alliance: the Yalta Conference agreement ceding the Kurile Islands and Sakhalin Island to Russia (in exchange for promised help, of dubious value, against Japan); Selling Out China to Communism
239. the broken agreement with Chinese nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek to consult him on matters pertaining to Asia; and the betrayal of China and North Korea to communism.
240. Herbert Hoover's book also documents the systematic betrayal of anti-communist forces throughout Europe and Asia by the US State Department. A Trail of Betrayal
241. General Douglas MacArthur is quoted as having personally told Herbert Hoover that president Franklin Delano Roosevelt had provoked the war in the Pacific against Japan by economic warfare and the total blockade on oil and rubber and other essential strategic materials,
242. while Japan was engaged in a life and death struggle against the communists in China.
243. As the US Navy had cracked the Japanese codes, the US government was fully aware of the impending attack on Pearl Harbour and chose not to warn their forces there. To Save the Soviet Union
244. FDR's administration wanted war with Japan to justify their colossal support to salvage Stalin's Soviet Union, which at that very moment was in danger of being overwhelmed by Operation Barbarossa.
245. General MacArthur was of the conviction that the war with Japan was forced on it by US policy and that the use of atom bombs to end the war was not only immoral, but militarily unnecessary.
246. The Japanese were seeking peace for months before the bomb was dropped.
247. One of the author's provocative questions includes: What part did Communist agents in U.S. government positions play in Roosevelt's policies? The United States Administration of FDR was riddled with communist agents. Communist Infiltration
248. The culmination of an extraordinary literary project that Herbert Hoover launched during World War II, his "Magnum Opus" – is now at last published nearly fifty years after its completion. Indictment
249. It offers a revisionist re-examination of the war and its Cold War aftermath and a sweeping indictment of the lost statesmanship of Franklin Roosevelt.
250. Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover's Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath originated as a volume of Hoover's memoirs, a book initially focused on his battle against President Roosevelt's foreign policies before Pearl Harbour. Expanding the Soviet Empire
251. As time went on and events unfolded however, Hoover widened his scope to include Roosevelt's disastrous foreign policies during the war, as well as the war's consequences: the expansion of the Soviet empire at war's end and the eruption of the Cold War.
252. On issue after issue, Hoover raises crucial questions that continue to be debated to this day: Critical Questions
253. Did Franklin Roosevelt deceitfully manoeuvre the United States into an undeclared, and unconstitutional, naval war with Germany even before 1941? Undeclared War
254. Did he unnecessarily appease Joseph Stalin at the pivotal Tehran conference in 1943? Appeasing Communism
255. Did communist agents and sympathisers in the White House, Department of State and Department of the Treasury play a malign role in America's wartime decisions? Communist Subversion
256. Hoover raises numerous arguments that challenge us to think again about our past. Think Again
257. Whether, or not one ultimately accepts his arguments, the exercise of confronting them will be very worthwhile.
258. Herbert Hoover's Freedom Betrayed is a well documented indictment of US foreign policy before, during and after the Second World War. Undermining Freedom
259. "While they promised them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption." 2 Peter 2:19
260. Endorsements and Reviews of FREEDOM BETRAYED
261. "The work, edited by historian George Nash, is an extended excoriation of… Franklin D. Roosevelt, and his foreign policy... the words will be jarring to many who today regard World War II in uniformly heroic terms." Tim Ferguson, Forbes A Shocking Exposé
262. "A remarkably well-researched, heavily footnoted revisionist history… seems destined to become one of the key historical documents of the mid-20th century, challenging many long-accepted interpretations of events." James E. Person Jr, The Washington Times One of the Key Historic Documents
263. "Freedom Betrayed is a searing indictment of FDR and the men around him as politicians who lied prodigiously about their desire to keep America out of war, even as they took one deliberate step after another to take us into war." Pat Buchanan, "Did FDR Provoke Pearl Harbour?", Townhall.com A Searing Indictment
264. "In its sharp dissent from the conventional understanding of the mid- twentieth century, Herbert Hoover's book succeeds in bringing that history back to life and in forcing us to think about it in ways that will surely be unfamiliar to many." Tom Bethell, "Revisionist History That Matters", The American Spectator Challenging
265. "Freedom Betrayed is the work of a serious student of history, and is heavily researched and footnoted. Its publication is a monumental moment in the history of presidential writings, and Nash deserves credit for his persistence and dedication in shaping it." Gerald J. Russello, "Herbert Hoover, Revisionist", The University Bookman Monumental
266. "What an amazing historical find! Historian George H. Nash, the dean of Herbert Hoover studies, has brought forth a very rare manuscript in Freedom Betrayed. Here is Hoover unplugged, delineating on everything from the ‘lost statesmanship' of FDR to the Korean War. A truly invaluable work of presidential history. Highly recommended." Douglas Brinkley, professor of History at Rice University and editor of The Reagan Diaries Invaluable
267. "Finally, after waiting for close to half a century, we now have Hoover's massive and impassioned account of American foreign policy from 1933 to the early 1950s. Unparalleled and Perceptive
268. Thanks to the efforts of George H. Nash, there exists an unparalleled picture of Hoover's worldview, one long shared by many conservatives. Nash's thorough and perceptive introduction shows why he remains America's leading Hoover scholar." Justus D. Doenecke, author of Storm on the Horizon: The Challenge to American Intervention, 1939-1941
269. "A forcefully argued and well documented alternative to, and critique of, the conventional liberal historical narrative of America's road to war and its war aims. Road to War and Ruin
270. Even readers comfortable with the established account will find themselves thinking that the accepted history should be reconsidered and perhaps revised." John Earl Haynes, author of Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America
271. "Freedom Betrayed offers vivid proof of William Faulkner's famous dictum that 'The past is never dead. It's not even past.' For those who might think that history has settled the mantle of consensus around the events of the World War II era, Hoover's iconoclastic narrative will come as an unsettling reminder that much controversy remains. Tragic Consequences Exposed
272. By turns quirky and astute, in prose that is often acerbic and unfailingly provocative, Hoover opens some old wounds and inflicts a few new ones of his own, while assembling a passionate case for the tragic errors of Franklin Roosevelt's diplomacy.
273. - DAVID M. KENNEDY is professor of history emeritus at Stanford University and the author of Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 Freedom Betrayed is must-read for anyone interested in the most consequential upheaval of the twentieth century.”
274. "Herbert Hoover's Freedom Betrayed is a bracing work of historical revisionism that takes aim at U.S. foreign policy under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Serving Soviet Expansionism
275. Part memoir and part diplomatic history, Hoover's Magnum Opus seeks to expose the lost statesmanship that, in Hoover's eyes, needlessly drew the United States into the Second World War and, in the aftermath, facilitated the rise to global power of its ideological rival, the Soviet Union.
276. Freedom Betrayed, as George Nash asserts in his astute and authoritative introduction, resembles a prosecutor's brief against Roosevelt - and against Winston Churchill as well - at the bar of history.
277. Thanks to Nash's impressive feat of reconstruction, Hoover's 'thunderbolt' now strikes - nearly a half-century after it was readied. The former president's interpretation of the conduct and consequences of the Second World War may not entirely persuade most readers.
278. Yet, as Nash testifies, like the best kind of revisionist history, Freedom Betrayed ‘ challenges us to think afresh about our past.' Bertrand M. Patenaude, author of A Wealth of Ideas: Revelations from the Hoover Institution Archives
280. "Nearly fifty years after his death, Herbert Hoover returns as the ultimate revisionist historian, prosecuting his heavily documented indictment of US foreign policy before, during, and after the Second World War. An Indictment of U.S. Foreign Policy
281. Brilliantly edited by George Nash, Freedom Betrayed is as passionate as it is provocative. Many no doubt will dispute Hoover's strategic vision.
282. But few can dispute the historical significance of this unique volume, published even as Americans of the twenty-first century debate their moral and military obligations." Richard Norton Smith, presidential historian and author, former director of several presidential libraries, and current scholar-in-residence at George Mason University.
283. "Now these things became our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted… Now all these things happened to them as examples and they were written for our admonition…" 1 Corinthians 10:6-11
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316. We need to understand the context of our history and rediscover the real facts, the real people and the real history - so that we might counter satan's deceptions of the nations. Facts are Stubborn Things
317. The facts are always stranger than fiction.
318. THE TRUTH SETS FREE. That is why it is absolutely essential that we know the truth of history to recognize the lies of propaganda..
319. We need to study the truth in the Bible
320. so that we can be freed from the deceptions of the world.
321. “You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” John 8:32
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