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Old December 18th, 2010 #1
Mike Parker
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Just read Selling War, a pretty dry academic history of the British propaganda campaign to embroil the US in WWII. Just as Alex notes re: Pearl Harbor, all the admitted frauds and dirty tricks are considered justified when done on the side of the “democracies.” The Brit author must subscribe to the execrable Whig Interpretation of History, and he makes full use of loaded terms like isolationism and appeasement. The struggle between interventionists and noninterventionists is also consistent with E. Michael Jones’s view of a long-standing conflict between self-righteous Anglophile WASPs driven to save the world, and humble ethnics (Irish, Germans, Catholics) content to mind their own business. Interestingly, both British intelligence and propaganda in the US were run out of NYC’s Rockefeller Center, and the only member of FDR’s brain trust who objected to Brit machinations was Adolf Berle. Most of the actual story is well-known. The only interesting news to me is about the Germany First war plan leaked by patriotic Sen. Burton Wheeler three days before Pearl Harbor in order to inflame noninterventionist opinion in the US. It may have been a Brit forgery intended for German consumption, and the author suggests it helped convince Hitler to declare war on the US. As Alex also says, our enemies don’t play fair. The ones who talk most about fairness (jews, Brits, WASPs) are the least fair of all.

Amazon.com: Selling War: The British Propaganda Campaign against American "Neutrality" in World War II (9780195111507): Nicholas J. Cull: Books Amazon.com: Selling War: The British Propaganda Campaign against American "Neutrality" in World War II (9780195111507): Nicholas J. Cull: Books
 
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