The Rebuttal: Defending 'American Betrayal' From the Book-Burners (33 page)

[1]
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/08/30/Horowitz-to-conservatives-fight-fire

[2]
The Rebuttal
first appeared on
Breitbart.com
in three installments.

[3]
http://www.ruthfullyyours.com/2013/07/08/mark-tapson-on-diana-wests-american-betrayal/

[4]
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/david-horowitz/editorial-our-controversy-with-diana-west/

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/08/15/What-Difference-Does-It-Make-A-Response-to-Diane-West

[5]
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/08/demagogic_writers_and_the_people_who_love_them.html

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/08/the_beginning_of_wisdom.html

^[6]
http://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2013/08/07/why-i-wrote-a-take-down-of-diana-wests-awful-book/

^[7]
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ron-radosh/diana-wests-attempt-to-respond/

^[8]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3620700/Necessary-or-not-Dresden-remains-a-topic-of-anguish.html

^[9]
http://gatesofvienna.net/2013/08/on-reading-the-book/#comment-144666

Marten Gantelius
on
August 17, 2013 at 9:11 pm
wrote this:

 
I am Swedish, and I have no intention of
reading “American Betrayal”. But I didn’t have to read very much of the review
of Mr Radosh to conclude that Ms West’s book is a very important and competent
work. And it’s obvious that a book with that magnitude is not written by
itself.

“How on earth can the man do that?”, is
a very relevant question. Well, analyzing language has been my profession
throughout many years. Before I regard the content of a text, I look for what I
call “The Language of Violence” in the text and watch the methods used (The
last thing is nothing new. Descartes did the same.).

A very common method is to aggressively
attack a detail in a text – of course with the intention to disturb the
holistic impression. In this case – Hopkins.

My point with this post is to focus on
the role of Mr Radosh. All authors – except some very few of them –
are very vurnerable regarding reviews when their books are published. I am sure
the history of our gutters includes many brilliant poets.

Mr Radosh used all his power,
knowledge, experience and contacts with one single purpose – to behead Ms
West.

^[10]
Here is a
partial list from which I draw my Hopkins dossier following mention of Venona
“19”:

·
  
George Racey Jordan,
From Major Jordan’s Diaries
(Harcourt, Brace, 1952);

·
  
John R. Deane,
The Strange Alliance: The Story of


Our
Efforts at Wartime Cooperation with Russia
(Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, 1973), 94–95.

·
  
Hearings Regarding Shipments of Atomic Material to the
Soviet Union During World War II (Washington: GPO, 1950), 909–10; Jordan,
Diaries,
21.

·
  
Lord Moran,
Churchill: Taken from the Diaries of Lord
Moran
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966), 41, 108, 
499–500.

·
  
George T. Eggleston,
Roosevelt, Churchill, and the World
War II Opposition: A Revisionist Autobiography

(Old Greenwich, CT:
Devin-Adair, 1980), 155.

·
  
Robert Sherwood,
The White House Papers of Harry L.
Hopkins: An Intimate History, vol. 2, January 1942–


July
1945
(Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1949), 634–35.

·
  
Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin,
The Sword and
Shield
.

·
  
Victor Kravchenko,
I Chose Justice
(New York: Charles
Scribner’s Sons, 1950), 76.

·
  
Martin Dies’ Story
by Martin
Dies

·
  
White,
Report on the Russians,
124.

·
  
Albert L. Weeks,
Russia’s Life-Saver: Lend-Lease Aid to
the USSR in World War II
(Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2004), 25.

·
  
Hanson Baldwin,
Great Mistakes of the War
(New York:
Harper & Brothers, 1950), 9.

·
  
Chesly Manly,
The Twenty-Year Revolution from Roosevelt
to Eisenhower
(Chicago: Regnery, 1954), 113.

·
  
Herbert
Romerstein and Eric Breindel,
Venona Secrets

·
  
Letter by Special Messenger from J. Edgar Hoover to Harry Hopkins, May
7, 1943

·
  
Victor Suvorov,
The Chief Culprit: Stalin’s Grand Design
to Start World War II
(Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2008),
114–20. Suvorov argues that this military defeat stymied further Japanese
aggression toward the USSR.

·
  
William H. Standley and Arthur A. Ageton,
Admiral
Ambassador to Russia
(Chicago: Regnery, 1955), 221–35.

·
  
Richard Rhodes,
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), 
96–100.

·
  
Robert Murphy,
Diplomat among Warriors: The Unique World
of a Foreign Service Expert
(New York, Doubleday, 1964), 256.

·
  
George McJimsey,
Harry Hopkins: Ally of the Poor and
Defender of Democracy
(Cambridge: Harvard Uni- varsity Press, 1987), 360.

·
  
FRUS,
The Tehran
^Conference
,
Roosevelt-Stalin Secret Meeting, December 1, 1943, 594. Martin Weil notes FDR’s
general political concerns about Senate ratification of the United Nations in
A
Pretty Good Club: The Founding Fathers of the U.S. Foreign Service
(New
York: Norton, 1978), 180.

·
  
Vassiliev, “Yellow Notebook No. #4, File 40935, Vol. 1, The
US Government,” viewable online at
http://www.scribd.com/doc/84608440/Alexander-Vassiliev-Papers-Yellow-Notebook-No-4
-Translation.

·
  
Edward Jay Epstein,
Dossier: The Secret History of Armand
Hammer
(New York: Random House, 1996), 135–56.

·
  
Transcript of Tape 10, of conversations between Forrest
Pogue and George C. Marshall, recorded January 22, 1957, 319.

·
  
Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky,
KGB: The Inside
Story
(New York: Harper Perennial, 1991), 287.

·
  
Bryton Barron,
Inside the State Department
(New York:
Comet Press, 1956

·
  
Peter B. Niblo,
Influence: The Soviet “Task” Leading to
Pearl Harbor, the Iron Curtain, and the Cold War
(Elderberry Press,
Oregon), 2002.

·
  
Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer,
Wedermeyer Reports!
(New York:
Holt, 1958),

·
  
Newsweek,
December 19, 1949, quoted in Jordan’s
1950 congressional testimony, 1169.

·
  
Dennis J. Dunn,
Caught Between Roosevelt and Stalin,
93.

·
  
M. Stanton Evans,
Blacklisted
by History
, 2007

^[11]
M. Stanton
Evans,
Blacklisted by History.
The
chapter is called, “What Hoover Told Truman.”

[12]
Footnote 53 from "Venona Source
19 and the Trident Conference," by Eduard Mark. Intelligence and National
Security 13:2, 1-31:
Duri
ng
the 1930s Duggan had been known to the NKVD as 19. Duggan,
however, is not a candidate for the 19 of 1943 because he did not meet with
Roosevelt or Churchill for any purpose, let alone both, to discuss the Second
Front Duggan's source for high-level information, moreover, was Wallace (see
note 52) who himself did not know the plans for the Second Front Wallace's
appointment book, finally, shows that between 12 May and 29 May (the date of
Message 812's composition) Wallace met Duggan but once - briefly on the morning
of 22 May, two days before the luncheon of 24
Ma
y which appears reflected in Messag
e No. 812. For Duggan's having be
en known to the Soviets as 19 in
the 1930s, see Allen Weinstein, Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case, rev. ed. (NY:
Random House 1997) p.183.