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From The Decisive Battles of the Western World, J. F. C. Fuller, 1956
At nine o’clock on the evening of the day Hitler invaded Russia, Mr. Churchill said in a broadcast to the British people : “I have to declare the decision of His Majesty’s Government. . . . We have but one aim and one single irrevocable purpose. We are resolved to destroy Hitler and every vestige of the Nazi régime. . . . We will never parley, we will never negotiate with Hitler or any of his gang. . . . Any man or state who fights on against Nazidom will have our aid. Any man or state who marches with Hitler is our foe. . . . That is our policy and that is our declaration. It follows therefore that we shall give whatever help we can to Russia and the Russian people.”
From this and similar utterances it is clear that Mr. Churchill had no conception of the task demanded of him in his capacity of Prime Minister and Minister of Defence. Firstly, it should have been to win a peace which would be profitable to his country, and there could be neither moral nor political advantage in substituting Stalin for Hitler. Secondly, because he had postulated the extirpation of Hitler and Hitlerism as his aim, he should have differentiated between the Nazi régime and the mass of the German people. Had he done so, he would have seen that his most profitable ally was the extensive anti-Hitler faction in Germany, and in accordance with his declaration he would have given it his aid. But, overmastered by his emotions, he committed the selfsame blunder that Hitler had made when he failed to distinguish between the pro-and anti-Stalinist peoples of the U.S.S.R. This blunder prolonged the war by years, and in spite of ultimate victory, it lost the peace and made the war an absurdity.
Thirdly, bound to Poland as the British Government was by the Anglo-Polish treaty, and faced with her partition — in which Stalin was as guilty as Hitler — Mr. Churchill should not have impulsively thrown his country into the arms of the Soviets, but should have paused until Stalin had sought his aid, and only then
have proffered it on the understanding that the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact of August 23, 1939, was first annulled, and that all Polish prisoners and deported Poles in Russian hands were released.
His partner in this negation of statesmanship was the American President who, obsessed by the collection of votes, sedulously cultivated the Communists and their fellow travelers, who held the balance of power in New York State. The outcome was, an American writer says : When Hitler invaded Russia the New Deal bureaux became the “roosting places for droves of Communist termits.” Almost unbelievably, this infiltration was so successful that American Communists — agents of the Kremlin — obtained controlling positions in many of the government departments.1 It was the work of these agents which deluded the President and thereby helped to shape his war policy toward Russia.
When Hitler invaded Russia, Roosevelt did not think to fix a price for American aid, such as specific guarantees against Soviet annexations of foreign territories, but, like Churchill,* blindly espoused the Soviet cause and forthwith started the flow of lend-lease goods to Russia.
1 For a score or more of these agents see The Twenty-Year Revolution from Roosevelt to Eisenhower, Chesly Manly (1954), pp. 99-103. Manly quotes the following evidence before the Senate sub-committee on August 14, 1951: “I would say that our best ones [Communist agents] were Henry { i.e. Harry } Dexter White and Lauchlin Currie. . . . “ The former became assistant secretary to the Treasury and the latter administrative assistant on eastern affairs to the President.
London : Eyre & Spottiswoode
vol. III 1956, pp. 449-450.
* Comment 'overmastered by his emotions' Churchill had 'impulsively thrown his country into the arms of the Soviets'. But 'there could be neither moral nor political advantage in substituting Stalin for Hitler'. This seems very true.
Personally, I find the account by General Fuller the most clearly thought-out one of any I have seen. His treatment of Churchill seems unduly uncharitable at some places ; it seems that the main problem was with the KGB etc. agents in the environment of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and with the blind optimism by the latter, others (which the Soviet moles had studiously cultivated) on such subjects as the mass-murderers and cheats J. Stalin etc. —
(WPT)
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26 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. The conduct of war, 1789-1961; a study of the impact of the French, industrial, and Russian revolutions on war and its conduct. 1961
27 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966 The conduct of war, 1789-1961; a study of the impact of the French, industrial, and Russian revolutions on war and its conduct 1961
28 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966 The generalship of Alexander the Great 1960
29 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. The generalship of Ulysses S. Grant. 1958
30 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. The generalship of Alexander the Great. 1958
31 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. Grant and Lee, a study in personality and generalship. 1957
32 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. Grant & Lee, a study in personality and generalship. 1957
33 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. The decisive battles of the Western World, and their influence upon history. 1957
34 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. Armored warfare : an annotated edition of Lectures on F.S.R. III. (Operations between mechanized forces) / 1955
35 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. The decisive battles of the Western World, and their influence upon history. 1954
Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966.
Title(s) A military history of the Western World.
Publisher New York, Funk & Wagnalls, 1954-56.
Paging 3 v. illus., maps. 24 cm.
Notes London ed. (Eyre & Spottiswoode) has title: The decisive battles of the Western World and their influence upon history.
Bibliographical footnotes.
36 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966 The Second World War, 1939-45 : a strategical and tactical history / 1954
37 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966 A military history of the Western World 1954
38 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. The Second World War, 1939-45, a strategical and tactical history. 1954
39 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. The decisive battles of the Western World, and their influence upon history. 1954
40 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. How to defeat Russia. 1951
Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. Armored warfare : an annotated edition of Lectures on F.S.R. III (operations between mechanized forces) / 1951
42 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. The Second World War, 1939-45, a strategical and tactical history. 1949
43 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. The Second World War, 1939-1945; a strategical and tactical history. 1949
44 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. The Second World War, 1939-45, a strategical and tactical history. 1948
45 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. Armament and history, a study of the influence of armament on history from the dawn of classical warfare to the second world war. 1945
46 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. Armament and history, 1945
47 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. Armament and history : a study of the influence of armament on history from the dawn of classical warfare to the second world war / 1945
48 Details/Locations Bacon, Reginald, Sir, 1863-1947. Warfare today; how modern battles are planned and fought on land, at sea, and in the air. 1944
49 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. Machine warfare; an inquiry into the influence of mechanics on the art of war, 1943
50 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. Armored warfare, an annotated edition of Lectures on F. S. R. III(Operations between mechanized forces) 1943
51 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. Decisive battles of the U.S.A. / 1942
52 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. Machine warfare; an enquiry into the influences of mechanics on the art of war, 1942
53 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. Decisive battles: their influence upon history and civilisation, 1940
54 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. Decisive battles: 1940
55 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. The last of the gentlemen's wars; a subaltern's journal of the war in South Africa, 1899-1902, 1937
56 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. Towards Armageddon: the defence problem and its solution, 1937
57 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966 The conquest of red Spain 1937
58 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. Memoirs of an unconventional soldier, 1936
59 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. Generalship, its diseases and their cure; a study of the personal factor in command, 1936
60 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. The first of the League wars its lessons and omens / 1936
Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. The army in my time, 1935
62 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. Empire unity and defence, 1934
63 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. Grant & Lee, a study in personality and generalship, 1933
64 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. Generalship, its diseases and their cure; a study of the personal factor in command, 1933
65 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. Grant & Lee, a study in personality and generalship, 1933
66 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. War and western civilization, 1832-1932; a study of war as a political instrument and the expression of mass democracy, 1932
67 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. The dragon's teeth; a study of war and peace, 1932
68 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. India in revolt, 1931
69 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. The generalship of Ulysses S. Grant, 1929
70 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. On future warfare, 1928
71 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. Imperial defence, 1588-1914, 1926
72 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. Atlantis; America and the future, 1926
73 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. Atlantis; America and the future, 1926
74 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. The foundations of the science of war, 1926
75 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. Pegasus; or, Problems of transportation, 1926
76 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. British light infantry in the eighteenth century (an introduction to "Sir John Moore's system of training") 1925
77 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. Sir John Moore's system of training, 1925
78 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. Pegasus; problems of transportation, 1925
79 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. Yoga; a study of the mystical philosophy of the Brahmins and Buddhists. 1925
80 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. The reformation of war, 1923
Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. The introduction of mechanical warfare on land and its possibilities in the future. 1921
82 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. Tanks in the great war, 1914-1918, 1920
83 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966 The star in the west; a critical essay upon the works of Aleister Crowley, 1907
84 Details/Locations Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966. For what type of war should the West prepare? ^^^^
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* How to defeat Russia. 1951
Comment "Cute" title. It seems to me that in order not to have to defeat Russia that country and people would have to be better understood. The situation today is vastly different than in 1951 (when Russia was groaning under the misrule of a criminal organization). But the chaos wrought by the marxist-leninists would not, presumably, just disappear together with the official demise of the alleged 'system' in that country. The book might contain some sober data on the Soviet Union 1951 which might remain partially use today.
Many other works by this writer. — WPT
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