Freedom
Betrayed:
Herbert Hoover's
Secret History
of the Second World
War and Its Aftermath
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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.
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Hoover with his wife Lou their two sons and daughter in law
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The trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange just after the crash of 1929.
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1931-36 - Police stand guard outside the entrance to New York's closed World Exchange
Bank, March 20, 1931
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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.
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Hoover appeals for relief for suffering Poland, Pulaski memorial Day, NY Oct 11 1939
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Advert for a Finnish Relief mass meeting, NY City, Dec 1939
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Hoover and actress Gertrude Lawrence at an auction to raise money for Finland
during the Russo-Finnish war of 1939
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Celebrities for Finnish relief Tallulah Bankhead, Hoover, Helen Hayes and Katherine Hepburn at a
luncheon NY Jan 12 1940
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Advert for book co-authored by Hoover in
1942 about war and peace, NY Times, 30 Jun
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Hoover and friend Hugh Gibson disembarking
from military transport plane during
international food relief mission, Spring 1946
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After World War 2, the American Relief Administration, established by Hoover,
fed 2 million starving Poles daily, including the children pictured here
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Hoover & associates visit the devastated cities of Europe, April 2, 1946
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Hoover visits the ruins of European cities, April 1946
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Hoover visits war orphans, Europe,
Apr 2 1946
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1947 Herbert Hoover on Food Planning Mission after
the war in Europe
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It is a tragedy that his book:
Freedom Betrayed,
was not published
during his lifetime.
Invaluable
History
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This invaluable historical analysis is of immense significance for anyone
wanting to understand the pivotal event of the 20th century:
The Second World War.
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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!
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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.
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Before he could bring his book to print,
President Hoover died suddenly.
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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
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Freedom Betrayed,
the manuscript that
America's 31st president
completed in 1963,
is at last in print
(Hoover Institution Press).
Uncomfortable
Truths
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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
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and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
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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
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Hoover and President Wilhelm Miklas of Austria,
Mar 4 1938
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Herbert Hoover meets Adolf Hitler, Berlin, March 8, 1938
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Hoover meets President Ignatz Moscicki of Poland , 12 Mar, 1938
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President Kyosti Kallio of Finland and Hoover, Helsinki, Finland, 15 Mar, 1938
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Pope Pius XII and Hoover discuss European food problems, Vatican , 23 March, 1946
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Hoover and Gandhi after a conference on India's food problems,
New Delhi, 23 Apr, 1946
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General Douglas MacArthur and Hoover in Tokyo, Japan, 7 May 1946
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President Harry Truman and Hoover confer about European food problems.
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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."
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Roosevelt
engineered
the U.S. entry
into World
War II despite
public and
congressional
anti-war
sentiment.
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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."
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In the author's view, the wise
course would have been to
let Russia's Stalin
and Germany's Hitler
—"destroy each other."
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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.
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Instead, by partnering with
Stalin to defeat Hitler,
Roosevelt and Churchill gave
communism legitimacy.
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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
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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
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US Secretary of State Lansing said of the peace treaty
he and President Wilson brought home:
“The Versailles Treaty menaces the existence of civilization.”
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"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
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"He who justifies the wicked, and he who
condemns the just, both of them alike are an
abomination to the Lord." Proverbs 17:15
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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."
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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
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"Western civilisation will be
infinitely better off if the
Germans fight in the East,
instead of the West.
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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."
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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
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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.'"
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He warned that in war the resultant inflation "confiscates the savings of
all." The result of America going into another war would be…
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increased despotism under a centralised, increasingly intrusive,
government at home.
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He warned of the rise of dictatorships on both sides of the Atlantic and
planned economies with "increased government debts and deficits."
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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
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We should have nothing to do with other peoples wars."
Hoover emphasized: we must keep peace with dictatorships,
as well as with popular governments.
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"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."
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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
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"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."
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Hoover recommended "rectifying the injustices of the Treaty of
Versailles", as the best safeguard against war.
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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
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The danger was from intellectual and economic collectivism, which was
corrupting America from within. America was suffering
"a moral regression in government."
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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."
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"America is on the path of creeping collectivism, hostile to liberty itself."
"Economic and political freedom are organically connected."
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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
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Europe is a continent, plagued with "mixed populations", contested
borders, and animosity stretching back a thousand years.
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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.
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He was convinced that Germany did not want any war with the Western
powers "unless these democracies interfere with their spread Eastward."
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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
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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!"
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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
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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
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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
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Food vessels should go freely and
bombing should target only armies,
navies and ammunition works",
and never civilian populations.
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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.
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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
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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."
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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
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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.
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Hoover exposed the "sheer hysteria" being whipped up by FDR's
speeches.
Dangerous Distractions
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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.
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The American president was "whipping up a war scare to distract
Americans from the total domestic failure of his administration."
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"I do not believe for one moment that these democracies are in any
danger of attack from Germany...
Aggressive Alliance
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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."
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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
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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
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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."
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"He has joined the chess board of Europe. He lines us up in the balance
of power – a condition fraught with mortal peril."
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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
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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."
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In the author's view, the wise course
would have been to let
Russia's Stalin and Germany's Hitler -
"destroy each other."
Unwise
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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
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Operation Barbarossa was the largest military operation
ever launched to that date.
Operation Barbarossa
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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
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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.
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The Luftwaffe had just over 4,000 aircraft to oppose the 18,700 aircraft
in the Soviet Air Force.
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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.
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In the first day, one quarter of the
Soviet Union's Air Force was destroyed.
Unprecedented
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The German Blitzkrieg tactics devastated the Red Army and
made stupendous progress.
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However the further the Wehrmacht advanced into Russia,
the more their logistical complications were compounded.
Logistical Nightmare
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The Russian infrastructure was primitive. Their dirt roads turned to mud.
To supply the frontline troops became an almost impossible assignment.
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By the end of
that year
Germany
captured
more than
500,000
square miles
of the Soviet
Union’s richest
territory,
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including about 75 million inhabitants (a little more than a third
of the pre-invasion population), and 30 percent of its productive capacity.
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On top of that, by the end of the year the USSR
had lost in combat well over 3 million men
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along with about 20,000 tanks,
18,000 military aircraft
and more than
60,000 artillery pieces.
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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
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Even before America entered WWII officially, vast quantities of military
hardware began being flown, shipped and trucked into Russia via Alaska,
Persia and Murmansk.
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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.
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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….
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British Invasion of Neutral Iceland
as a base for supplying the Soviet Union
with Allied Weapons of War
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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
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or directly to the front line. Despite German protests, Tokyo allowed the
shipments to the Soviets to continue unhampered throughout the war.
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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
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the British and Soviets engaged in a joint operation to overthrow Shah
Reza Pahlavi and seized control of Iran & it’s strategic railroad.
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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.
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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.
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An official list of military hardware supplied by the USA
to the USSR from 1941, includes:
Gifts To Stalin
2,670,000 tonnes of petroleum products;
49,860 tonnes of leather; 3,786,000 tyres;
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15,417,000 pairs of army boots; 106,893,000 tonnes of
cotton; building equipment valued at $10,000,910,000;
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non-iron metals
802,000 tonnes;
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along with 29 tankers; 433 combat ships,
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the US provided over 2 million tons of
petroleum products.
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as well as mobile bridges, railroad equipment,
aircraft radio equipment and many other items.
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US also delivered about 470,000 tons of explosives,
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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.
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The US sent about 270,000 tons of rolled steel,
enough to manufacture about 15,000 T-34 Tanks
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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This does not include the very generous aid
given by Great Britain to the Soviet Union.
British and Canadian Aid
to the USSR
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Great Britain sent the USSR:
5,218 tanks
5,511 Bofors anti-aircraft guns,
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5,042 tanks and 12 minesweepers.
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Britain supplied 5,800 aircraft,
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along with approximately 3,300 Hurricane
and 1,000 Spitfire fighter aircraft.
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The British sent over 1.7 billion dollars worth
of supplies to Stalin’s Soviet Union.
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Canada supplied
the Soviet Union
with 2,788 Tanks &
Armoured Vehicles
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Canada also supplied Stalin over a million artillary shells
and 208,000 tonnes of wheat and flour.
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There is no doubt that without the Western aid the Soviet Union
wouldn’t have been able to survive a year.
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Russian historian Boris Sokolov wrote in 1998:
“Lend Lease was the decisive factor
in the Soviet ability to continue the war.”
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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.
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From 11 September through 18 October,1941
those British pilots flew missions over Murmansk.
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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.
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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.
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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 !
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The colossal American military aid shipped to Stalin's Soviet Union was
neither morally defensible, nor wise.
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Capitalist America effectively salvaged the Communist dictatorship in
Russia from collapse and helped fund, fuel and arm
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the greatest military threat to Western civilization:
the Soviet Union.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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By November 1943, secret commitments by the Allies
at their Tehran Conference constituted
"the greatest blows to human freedom in this century."
Catastrophic Betrayals
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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
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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
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"…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
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Hoover documents Roosevelt's repeated assurances to Stalin that
America would do nothing to thwart Soviet territorial ambitions in
Europe.
Stalin’s Ambitions
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Freedom Betrayed indicts Roosevelt for instigating the war in the Pacific
as well:
Provoking War in the Pacific
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His economic sanctions against Japan and shunning of Japanese peace
overtures sparked the Pearl Harbour attack and ultimately led to
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the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki –
"an act of unparalleled brutality in all American history."
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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
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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.
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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
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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,
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while Japan was engaged in a life and death struggle
against the communists in China.
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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
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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.
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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.
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The Japanese were seeking peace for months before the bomb
was dropped.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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On issue after issue, Hoover raises crucial questions
that continue to be debated to this day:
Critical Questions
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Did Franklin Roosevelt deceitfully manoeuvre the United States into an
undeclared, and unconstitutional, naval war with Germany
even before 1941?
Undeclared War
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Did he unnecessarily appease Joseph Stalin
at the pivotal Tehran conference in 1943?
Appeasing Communism
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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
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Hoover raises numerous arguments that challenge us
to think again about our past.
Think Again
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Whether, or not one ultimately accepts his arguments,
the exercise of confronting them will be very worthwhile.
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Herbert Hoover's Freedom Betrayed is a well documented indictment of
US foreign policy before, during and after the Second World War.
Undermining Freedom
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"While they promised them liberty,
they themselves are slaves of corruption." 2 Peter 2:19
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Endorsements
and Reviews of
FREEDOM
BETRAYED
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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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
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"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
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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
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"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
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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.
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- 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.”
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"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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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"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
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Brilliantly edited by George Nash, Freedom Betrayed is as passionate as
it is provocative. Many no doubt will dispute Hoover's strategic vision.
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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.
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"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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Reformation Society
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Email: [email protected]
Website: www.ReformationSA.org
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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
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The facts are always stranger than fiction.
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THE TRUTH SETS FREE.
That is why it is absolutely essential
that we know the truth of history
to recognize the lies of propaganda..
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We need to study the truth in the Bible
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so that we can
be freed from the
deceptions
of the world.
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“You shall
know the
truth and
the truth
shall make
you free.”
John 8:32
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