The purpose of this book is not to record a history of the war. Its aim is to discover how our great, free nation, guarded against such a disaster by a Constitution and a long heritage of ideals, could be brought into such a struggle, involving objectives so dimly seen, stretching on to problems so insoluble, . . . (etc).
[. . .]
Before this was possible, something, over a course of years, had to be done to the minds of the American people. The purposes of this book is to explore the techniques by which this job was done and to identify, if possible, the agencies and the men responsible for it. I am aware that the reader will find himself asked to believe statements which seem in themselves incredible. In these last 20 years this country has become a laboratory for the dark and insidious science of modern revolutionary propaganda. It is difficult for the
American to realize that the ideas, the prejudices, the convictions he holds
may have been deliberately—though slyly—planted in his mind by men who have a settled purpose in performing that operation, who possess the instruments of thought control and understand how to operate them. Miracles can be wrought by those who know this art.
Never has there been so large and so generally sophisticated a population so defenseless against such an enterprise as the people of America. Generous in their attitudes, disturbed a a long siege of war, exposed to the most powerful engines of propaganda the world has ever known, they have been a mark for the experts trained in their use. ( pages 10-11)
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There were traitors in the State Department and in posts of power in many departments of the government. Many of the men who are now being hustled off to jail were exercising a controlling influence at those key positions where decisions are made. It is not easy to uncover the real moral and intellectual disease which took possession of the minds of so many men in places of power. It is easy enough to diagnose the case of those men who were outright Communists or half-convinced fellow travelers. They knew what they believed and what they were aiming at. The trouble lies in tracing the illness which possessed the minds of men who were neither Communists nor socialists, yet who cold be afflicted with some disorder that brought them down to a point where they saw our problems almost precisely as the Reds saw them, and led them to become, in some cases the
deluded, and in some cases the completely blind partners of the enemy.
These aberrations led to a shockingly false conception of the war and its objectives and its meanings. In turn, by the most gigantic propaganda assault in history, they set out to fool the American people about the war and its purposes.
The result is that the war is not yet over for us. Indeed, the war in its most dangerous aspects has really only begun. Germany, Japan and their several allies have been defeated. But the real enemy remains, his strength enormously increased by our aid and his power sprawling all over Europe and Asia.
The enemy is communism. Stalin is merely its high priest and Russia is merely its GH! [General Headquarters. (WPT)]. The war was and is upon our concept of life, and the Communist generals know that there is only one stronghold to be stormed and taken. That is the United States of America. They know, too, that this is not to be accomplished just by war against our armies and upon the seas. They know it is to be achieved by war upon our system of life—our system of government and of economic organization. And they know that already there is here among us an army of foolish men#151;some of them instructed—who have come amongst us to teach us the great lesson of the "Good Life." But many more—far more—are those deluded Americans who agree with this diseased philosophy and who have learned from Europe, from its Red and its Black dictators—the Stalins and the Hitlers and the Mussolinis—that there are numerous groups who can be incorporated in their social armies of discontent—all sorts of people, good and bad, mostly deluded, who can be captured by appeals to their hatreds and their appetites. ;( pages 185-6 )
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At Yalta, Stalin got all he asked for. Roosevelt, too, got all he asked for—the United Nations with Stalin in the middle of it with a veto to paralyze action by the West; he also got Stalin in the war against Japan—which, as is now abundantly obvious, was the source of most of our present woes in Asia. (Etc.) ( page 146 )
What can we now think of the men in America who made this possible? How will we explain the curious obfuscation about Russia which was at the ;bottom of this? Can it be that these men had become the victims of the false propaganda they had poured over the minds of our people? Roosevelt told William C. Bullitt "that Stalin . . . doesn't want anything but security for his country, and I think that If I give him everything I possibly can and ask nothing from him in return, noblesse oblige, (etc).141 Can you name any dupe of the false propaganda about Russia unloosed here who cold have been more utterly taken in by it than the man who authorized the propaganda and protected the men who brewed and distributed it? This appalling mistake of Rossevelt's was at the bottom of it all.
Behold the setting at Yalta. There was Mr. Roosevelt, broken in health, exhausted, (etc). He had explained his surrender to the Morgenthau Plan at Quebec more than a year before on the ground that he was so tired he did not realize what he was doing. On his way to Yalta he was so weary and weak that he spent most of his time in his cabin. (Etc.) Hist closest and most trusted adviser, Harry Hopkins, was with him, but in a state so feeble that he spent all this, just as at Quebec (where the fate of Germany was settled) his chief adviser was Assistant to the Secretary of the
Treasury Harry Dexter White, a member of a Russian espionage apparatus in Washington, so now at Yalta, at his side throughout and especially during his secret meetings with Stalin, was Alger Hiss, today in prison for perjury for denying his Red espionage work. Ponder this perplexing fact. The Yalta agreement which has brought so much woe was drafted by Sir Gladwyn Jebb, representing England, Andrei Gromyko, representing Russia and Alger Hiss, representing the United States. I know of no incident in American history that can parallel this. ( pages 147-8 )
141. "How We Won the War and Lost the Peace" by William C. Bullitt, Life, August 30, 1948. [ note on p. 191 ]
New York : Devin-Adair 1951.
Flynn, John Thomas, 1883-1964
Uniform Title [ While you slept, our tragedy in Asia and who made it]
Title While you slept / by John T. Flynn
Publisher Belmont, Mass. : Robert Welch, Inc., 1961
Description 100 p. : maps ; 23 cm
Series American Opinion reprint series
Language English
Note Cover title
Reprint of ed. published by Devin-Adair under title: While you slept, our tragedy in Asia and who made it
Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 98-100)
Flynn, John Thomas, 1883-1964
Title The Roosevelt myth
Publisher New York : Devin-Adair Co., 1961,[c1956]
Description 465 p. : illus. ; 21 cm
Language English
Note Includes bibliography
Subject Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
Flynn, John Thomas, 1883-1964
Title The road ahead : America's creeping revolution
Publisher New York : Devin-Adair Co., 1961
Description 160 p. ; 22 cm
Language English
Note Includes bibliography
Flynn, John Thomas, 1883-1964.
Title The hand in your pocket : it's the "Little Man" who pays the most income taxes / by John T. Flynn.
Publisher New York : America's Future, Inc., c1959.
Description 15 p.
Series An America's Future pamphlet
Flynn, John Thomas, 1883-1964.
Title The Roosevelt myth.
Publisher New York, Devin-Adair Co. 1956.
Description 465p. map.
Language English
Note Includes bibliography.
Subject Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
Flynn, John Thomas, 1883-1964
Title The decline of the American Republic and how to rebuild it
Publisher New York, Devin-Adair, 1955
Description 212 p. 21 cm
Flynn, John Thomas, 1883-1964.
Title The Lattimore story.
Publisher New York, Devin-Adair, 1953.
Description 118 p. 20 cm.
Language English
Subject Lattimore, Owen, 1900-
Flynn, John Thomas, 1883-1964.
Title While you slept; our tragedy in Asia and who made it.
Publisher New York : Devin-Adair, 1951.
Description 192 p. illus. 22 cm.
Flynn, John T. (John Thomas), 1882-1964.
Title The road ahead; : America's creeping revolution.
Publisher New York, : Distributed by the Committee for Constitutional Government by special arrangement with Devin-Adair, 1949.
Description 207 p. ; 19 cm.
Flynn, John Thomas, 1883-1964.
Title The road ahead, America's creeping revolution.
Publisher New York, Devin-Adair Co., 1949.
Description 160 p. 22 cm.
Flynn, John Thomas, 1883-
Title The Roosevelt myth
Publisher New York, Devin-Adair [c.1948]
Description x, 438 p. 22 cm
Language English
Note Bibliography: p. 426-429
Subject Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
Flynn, John Thomas, 1883-1964.
Title The epic of freedom, by John T. Flynn.
Publisher Philadelphia, Pa. : Fireside press, inc., [c1947]
Description xii p., 2 L., 17-127 p. 21 cm.
Language English
Note "A suggestion for reading": p. 125-126.
Flynn, John Thomas, 1883-1964
Uniform Title [ Truth about Pearl Harbor]
Title The final secret of Pearl Harbor / by John T. Flynn
Publisher New York City : J.T. Flynn, [1945]
Description 15 p. ; 23 cm
Language English
Note Rev. ed. of: The truth about Pearl Harbor
Cover title
Flynn, John T. (John Thomas), 1882-1964.
Title The truth about Pearl Harbor / by John T. Flynn.
Publisher New York City : J.T. Flynn, [1944]
Description 32 p. ; 23 cm.
Language English
Note Cover title.
Photocopy.
Flynn, John Thomas, 1883-1964.
Title Meet your Congress, by John T. Flynn.
Publisher Garden City, New York : Doubleday, Doran and company, inc., 1944.
Description 157 p. 19cm.
Language English
Note First edition.
Flynn, John Thomas, 1883-1964.
Title As we go marching, by John T. Flynn.
Publisher Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran and co., inc., 1944.
Description viii, 272 p. 21 cm.
Language English
Note "First edition."
Note Bibliography: p. 259-263.
Can Hitler invade America? / compiled by John T. Flynn for the America First Committee
Publisher Chicago, Ill. : The Committee, [1941?]
Description 12 p. : maps ; 24 x 11 cm
Language English
Note Cover title
Flynn, John Thomas, 1883-1964.
Title Men of wealth ; the story of twelve significant fortunes from the renaissance to the present day / by John T. Flynn.
Publisher New York : Simon and Schuster, 1941.
Description xi, 531, [1] p. : ports. ; 24 cm.
Language English
Contents Fugger the Rich.--John Law.--The Rothschilds.--Interlogue one: Cosimo de' Medici, Sir Thomas Gresham, Jacques Coeur. The art and industry of make-up. Writers as money-makers.--Robert Owen.--Cornelius Vanderbilt.--Hetty Green.--Interlogue two: Misers, Poverty.--Mitsui.--Cecil Rhodes.--Basil Zaharoff.--Interlogue three: Hugo Stines, Land fortunes. Dynastic fortunes.--Mark Hanna.--John D. Rockefeller.--J. Pierpont Morgan.
Flynn, John T. (John Thomas), 1883-1964.
Title Country squire in the White House / by John T. Flynn.
Publisher New York : Doubleday, Doran, 1940.
Description vi, 131 p. ; 21 cm.
Language English
Note Includes bibliographical references.
Subject Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
Flynn, John Thomas, 1883-1964.
Title Security speculation; its economic effects, by John T. Flynn.
Publisher New York, Harcourt, Brace [c1934]
Description xii, 332 p. diagrs. 22cm.
Language English
Note "First edition."
Note Bibliography: p.321-327.
Flynn, John T. (John Thomas), 1882-1964.
Title God's gold : the story of Rockefeller and his times / by John T. Flynn.
Publisher New York : Harcourt, Brace, c1932, 1933 printing. { London : Harrap, [1933] }
Description ix, 520 p. : ill., ports., diagr. ; 23 cm.
Language English
Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 489-508) and index.
Subject Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison), 1839-1937.
Flynn, John Thomas, 1883-1964.
Title Graft in business ... by John T. Flynn.
Publisher New York : The Vanguard Press, [c1931]
Description ix, 11-318 p. incl. diagr. 22 cm.
Flynn, John Thomas, 1883-1964.
Title Investment trusts gone wrong! By John T. Flynn.
Publisher New York : New Republic, inc., 1930.
Description 276 p. 19 cm.
Language English
Note "Much of the material originally appeared in a series of articles in the New Republic."--Introductory note.
Note "Bibliographical note": p. 269.