PJ 81
CHAPTER 11
REC #1 HATONN
SUN., NOV. 7, 1993 7:50 A.M. YEAR 7, DAY 083
SUN., NOVEMBER 7, 1993
GOV. CARNAHAN: WE'RE MAD AS HELL AND
WE WON'T TAKE IT MUCH LONGER!
"We" may be a small paper but we ARE the voice of the people of this nation, under GOD who proclaims freedom and justice for ALL. We are going to turn this focus of light onto you and the judicial non-system of Missouri, Sir, until you let Gunther Russbacher go. You HAVE all the information regarding this servant of our government who is now sick and possibly dying in your State Prison simply to maintain his silence regarding such as October Surprise. I suggest you and all persons who pick -up this paper READ the accompanying letter from author Rodney Stich, to our incredible EXCUSE for a head of our Justice Department. We, in America, have reached a new low in morality when we allow the criminals to head the government in every category. We suggest that you NOT BE LISTED AMONG THOSE CRIMINALS, SIR. If, indeed, you do not know about this atrocity in your dooryard--that you find out lest you be painted with the same black brush of disregard for all justice and order in our once great nation.

If, Sir, you do not feel capable of acting as a Governor of a great State, then we suggest you ask your puppet-masters about the seriousness of this incarceration continuing. There are many things and people involved in the focus of this man's incarceration. He represents every hostage POW/MIA, every other patriot incarcerated after being used and abused, and every man or woman who has served this nation at the most dangerous and clandestine level known to man. Why do they choose to serve? Many reasons, Sir, from pure excitement, monetary gain, "I Spy", to total devotion to our nation, the United States of America. We are not given the right to judge reasons--only performance and mistreatment at the hands of those put in office TO PROTECT OUR FREEDOM AND RIGHTS UNDER THE CONSTITUTIONS OF OUR STATES AND NATION.

Puppet-masters? The higher echelon of misrepresentation of We-The-People--the very ones involved directly--the Kissingers, the Bushes, Twigs and Voted-in betrayers of our nation in the White House. THEY KNOW THIS MAN, GUNTHER RUSSBACHER, AT VERY PERSONAL LEVELS OF ENCOUNTER.

There is no need to further test this man in point, Sir; the FACTS are out before the sleepy masses from many, many sources regarding the involvement at home and abroad and the treasonous actions of Government persons. If they do not wish to further pursue the matter, it makes no difference as to whether or not you release this Capt. Russbacher; there is nothing further he wishes to do to the ones at the top or at your level of Government politics.

There are some things, however, at stake here, that are so big as to cause ones on the globe to shudder in possibilities. GOD is at work ALSO--ALONG WITH THE ADVERSARY TO JUSTICE AND GOODNESS and THIS MAN HAS ASKED FOR THE HELP AND INTERVENTION OF THAT GOD OF CREATION/LIGHT. HE, SIR, IS RECEIVING IT AS WE SPEAK. Perhaps you are willing to bring down the arm of Justice from that God and the people of this nation, once great in its lighted messages to the world, but it seems highly unwise for you must realize that the political persons you protect will destroy you and there will be no cuddly constituents to guard you.

Perhaps you think we JEST? I, further then, suggest you check out the circumstances happening around New Mexico, Arizona and parts near and in the skies "over" White Sands. There are higher powers at work, Governor, and it would seem the better part of curiosity or possibility TO LET SOME PEOPLE GO!

You KNEW that this man had HEPATITIS and yet you allowed the Prison to put him, with total knowledge, into the kitchen areas to serve and prepare food and spread that disease throughout the system in Missouri. You KNOW that he had had horrible torture as a Prisoner of War in Cambodia--in service to this once great nation. You KNOW that his fingernails were torn out over and over until his hands bleed and fester with even the use of water--much less the solutions and misuse in an institution kitchen. This is, Sir, deliberate and knowing contribution of spreading an infectious disease which "OUTSIDE" would be grounds for charges of MURDER.

You further KNOW THAT THIS MAN HAS HEART PROBLEMS WHICH WILL REQUIRE SURGERY. Medicines are withheld at random and now he is in isolation pending "who knows what next excuse"! THE PEOPLE IN CHARGE OF THAT PRISON SAID HE HAD "NO HEPATITIS" AND YET, NOW, HE IS ISOLATED "BECAUSE OF HEPATITIS"! EITHER WAY, SIR, IT DOESN'T LOOK GOOD FOR YOUR IMAGE FOR ALLOWING THIS TO GO ON FOR WE KNOW YOU HAVE BEEN CONTACTED OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN TO TAKE ACTION AND RELEASE THIS MAN TO HIS NATIVE COUNTRY, AUSTRIA.

We, as a nation, have abided this inhuman treatment of one of our own citizens and now allow you and your henchmen to hold a man for no more than political reasons. There is no doubt or misunderstanding as to WHO is this man or his status with the Special Forces, Naval Intelligence, etc.

WE ARE MAD AS HELL, GOVERNOR CARNAHAN, AND WE WON'T TAKE IT ANY LONGER! WE WILL PETITION EVERY COURT, DEPARTMENT, ADMINISTRATION AND PAPER ON THIS GLOBE IF IT BE NECESSARY TO BRING THE STORY OF THIS MAN TO THE PUBLIC VIEW--IF YOU CONTINUE TO REFUSE TO "LET HIM GO".

We, as a paper (press), have no interest in groupies, groups, patriot organizations, organized ANYTHING--only that which is right and just to our fellow-citizens. We are not troublemakers by intent--only information bearers--to the best of our ability in a free nation, under God.

We do not speak as a group voice--we speak as individual citizens of this once great nation, under God, and DEMAND that justice be served and let this man go in peace, back to his native home and family to live out what life he has remaining--likely short now that he has been infected deliberately with diseases incurable.

If this gross miscarriage of justice is not corrected immediately there shall be an opening of "Pandora's Boxes", Sir, and we shall see what the investigators have already uncovered. It would appear to be far more serious than Sen. Packwood's diary of sexual misbehavior among his old buddies. Missouri is the "SHOW ME" State--it appears there is certainly a lot to be shown--IN THIS ONE UNJUST CASE OF INCARCERATION.

We and others of the press are quite happy to drop this unfortunate case and allow the sheltering of your backsides if you accept your responsibility as the servant of the people that a Governor represents. YOU KNOW THAT THE AUSTRIAN EMBASSY IS SEEKING HIS RELEASE AND ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR RETURNING HIM TO HIS HOME. YOU KNOW THAT AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL WILL LIKEWISE HELP HIM TO GET HOME. SINCE YOU KNOW THESE THINGS IT APPEARS THAT YOU ARE IN COALITION WITH THE VERY CRIMINAL JUSTICE DEPARTMENTS WHO CONTINUE TO DEMAND INCARCERATION FOR THIS MAN WHO SIMPLY SERVED HIS NATION AS REQUIRED, TO THE BEST OF HIS ABILITY.

GOVERNOR, WE PETITION YOU TO "LET THIS MAN GO"! WE, TOO, BEAR THE BLIGHT AND INJUSTICE AS FELLOW-CITIZENS WHO HAVE ALLOWED POLITICS TO DESTROY OUR ONCE GREAT NATION.

Thank you for your attention and we await, eagerly, Gunther Russbacher's immediate release from your unjust incarceration.

A citizen of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,


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We ask that everyone who receives this paper and shares it with others will take this message directly, or copy it and sign it AND SEND IT IMMEDIATELY TO GOVERNOR CARNAHAN OF THE GREAT STATE OF MISSOURI TO DEMAND THAT HE RELEASE THIS SERVANT OF YOU-THE-PEOPLE.

Governor Mel Carnahan
State Capitol Building
Jefferson City, MO 65101

Phones:
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[Also please send it to other pertinent people, media or programs you deem powerful enough to help. Thank you.]

If you as fellow-citizens do not take responsibility for your brother in trouble--you are LOST to a political system so unjust as to willingly serve you into slavery. If YOU do not act in behalf of your brother--WHO WILL ACT IN BEHALF OF YOU WHEN THE DAY COMES (VERY SOON NOW)? At this point all you have to do is let THEM know THAT YOU KNOW and ask for "mercy" for this friend in need.

There are others in trouble from one end of your nation to another, victims of a system gone insane as it efforts to gobble up the very life-blood of your once great nation. But you must start a journey with the first step--so we go to one who has earned the reputation of being a fair and just Governor and ask his help. This man has honorably paid any price outstanding and the people who continue the incarceration KNOW AS MUCH--THEY HOLD HIM IN AN ATTEMPT TO SILENCE HIM. WELL, HE NO LONGER WANTS TO TALK ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCES FOR IT IS ALL KNOWN--IT IS ONLY YOU-THE-PEOPLE WHO DO NOT KNOW AND, YET, IT IS THERE FOR THE SEEING IF YOU BUT WANT TO KNOW. THIS MAN NEED PAY NO MORE--BUT THE EYES OF THE WORLD WILL BE FOCUSED HENCEFORTH ON THE STATE OF MISSOURI--UNTIL THIS MAN IS RELEASED. SO BE IT.

Readers, it may seem as if your one small voice is not heard--but IT IS! When hundreds, yea thousands, of letters demanding attention arrive on a man's desk--and further, when the solution is so simple--your voice WILL BE HEARD OR YOU SPEAK AGAIN, AND AGAIN, AND AGAIN. No one herefrom rises up in violence or arms against anything--we simply demand, in the name of God, for rightful freedom and for the honorable treatment and freedom of our brother and sister citizens caught in the mire of political intrigue. If we fail to hoist the light of Truth above the madding crowd--who shall lift the lamp for us? Will the magnificent Lady of the Lamp who stands as guardian of your shores be left in final shame for that which we do to our own??

Make as many copies as you each will and send them, send them and send them--until "they"--"let our people go"!

Will GOD do "it" FOR you? Not on a bet! YOU will care enough to DO IT--or it shall not be done! If, however, YOU ASK GOD AND TRUST IN THAT TRUTH--YOU WILL HAVE PROTECTION AND THAT WHICH YOU SEARCH FOR AND ACT FOR, SHALL COME TO PASS--IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE. WE SEARCH FOR NO "REVENGE"--THAT WILL COME BACK UNTO ONES WHO PERPETRATE THE EVIL ON ITS OWN SPIRALING UNIVERSAL LAW. IN OTHER WORDS, AS PRIME AND IMMEDIATE EXAMPLE: GOV. CARNAHAN STEPS IN AND SERVES IN RIGHT-NESS, SO SHALL YOU STAND IN HIS PROTECTION WHEN HIS ENEMY TURNS AGAINST HIM. IF YOU DESERT THE BROTHER IN TROUBLE--YOU TOO SHALL BE DESERTED IN YOUR TIME OF NEED.

The VOICE OF THE INDIVIDUAL can be heard, my friends, IF IT IS JOINED BY ANOTHER, AND ANOTHER AND ANOTHER! Let us prove that this is so! God bless you in your service and choices--that they always be that which offers truth and freedom.

In service unto honor, I salute you FOR YOUR HONOR UNTO SERVICE.


PJ 81
CHAPTER 12
REC #2 HATONN
SUN., NOV. 7, 1993 9:15 A.M. YEAR 7, DAY 083
SUN., NOVEMBER 7, 1993
KEVORKIAN? (DR.?)
What do I think about his hunger strike even if it kills him? Nothing! He has the same right to commit suicide as any of those nice patients he "helped"! This man fights for the "right to die" for all others--why do you not allow him his own if he chooses? YOU don't understand the terrible course of action of this man who dishes out death by the plateful. You think he does it for suffering humanity? No, he does it for himself--and therefore should be left to his own "suicide" if that be his choice. No, I would NOT sanction intervention by the Constitutional Law Center for there are too many WORTHY recipients of that group's attention--protection of "murder" is not one of them! Under the laws does he have a "right"? NO--for the laws are wrong in almost all instances--it is against the laws of God and Creation to take the life of another being. The subject is far too great to handle HERE. "Dr. Death" loves killing, no more and no less--so, let him orchestrate his own! That which you give forth shall come back full cycle--why would you intervene in his own choices?

TRUTH IS!
Truth is tough, readers. It will not break, like a bubble or change as with lies, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a soccer ball or a football, and it WILL BE ROUND AND FULL IN THE EVENING AS IN THE MORNING!

"Truth will make you free!" Ah yes, goodly papers tout it, patriots throw the saying around like a symbol of one's own worth or worthless value--depending upon what one is efforting to accomplish--so, know this: The saying "truth will make you free" is feeble and foolish in its meaning. IT IS THE ACTION IN TRUTH WHICH OFFERS FREEDOM--NOT JUST THE REALIZATION OF THE TRUTH--BUT IT IS FIRST IN THE KNOWING OF TRUTH THAT FREEDOM IS THEN ACHIEVED.

In view of causes which allow for non-knowing, namely censorship of your press and media (that which you are allowed to know), I am going to take the time to return to Iron Curtain Over America, by John Beaty, and share the subject of censorship. You must hear these truths in many ways and many times in order to KNOW them.

QUOTING:

THE BLACK HOOD OF CENSORSHIP
Over his head, face, and neck the medieval executioner sometimes wore a loose-fitting hood of raven black. The grim garment was pierced by two eye-holes through which the wearer, himself unrecognized, caused terror by glancing among the onlookers while he proceeded to fulfill his gruesome function. In similar fashion today, under a black mask of censorship, which hides their identity and their purpose, the enemies of our civilization are at once creating fear and undermining our Constitution and our heritage of Christian civilization. In medieval times the onlookers at least knew what was going on, but in modern times the people have no such knowledge. Without the ignorance and wrong judging generated by this hooded propaganda, an alert public and an informed Congress would long since have guided the nation to a happier destiny.

The black-out of truth in the United States has been effected (I) by the executive branch of the national government and (II) by non-government power.

I: GOVERNMENT CENSORSHIP
In the mention of government censorship, it is not implied that our national government suppresses newspapers, imprisons editors, or in other drastic ways prevents the actual publication of news which has already been obtained by periodicals. It is to be hoped that such a lapse into barbarism will never befall us.

Nevertheless, since the mid-thirties, a form of censorship has been applied at will by many agencies of the United States government. Nothing is here said against war-time censorship of information on United States troop movements, military plans and related matters. Such concealment is necessary for our security and for the surprise of the enemy, and is a vital part of the art of war. [H: Wow. "ART" of war??] Nothing is said here against such censorship as the government's falsification of the facts about our losses on December 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor (Pearl Harbor, The Story of the Secret War, by George Morgenstern, The Devin-Adair Company, New York, 1947), though the falsification was apparently intended to prevent popular hostility against the administration rather than to deceive an enemy who already knew the facts.

Unfortunately, however, government censorship has strayed from the military field to the political. [H: Well, herein, in this subject I take great exceptions even while understanding WHY the author states these observations. However, don't, simply because a thing is "written", assume that it is correct other than for purposes of presentation. Censorship BEGAN with politics--not military maneuvers. Dirty politics had to be covered from sight and, believe me, under that shelter--the enemy was always informed of military missions--to insure political outcome suitable to the political war in the first place. WAR IS ALWAYS POLITICAL! ALWAYS!] Of the widespread flagrant examples of government blackout of truth before, during, and after World War II the next five sections (a to e) are intended as samples rather than as even a slight survey of a field, the vastness of which is indicated by the following:

Congressman Reed (N.Y., Rep.) last week gave figures on the number of publicity people employed in all the agencies of the Government. "According to the last survey made," he said, "there were 23,000 permanent and 22,000 part-time." (From Thought Control, Human Events, March 19, 1952. [H: Care to guess how many there are NOW, 1993?]

(a): MANEUVER INTO WORLD WAR II
Our grossest censorship concealed the Roosevelt administration's maneuvering our people into World War II. The blackout of Germany's appeal to settle our differences has been fully enough presented in Chapter IV. Strong evidence of a similar censorship of an apparent effort of the administration to start a war in the Pacific is voluminously presented in Frederic R. Sanborn's heavily documented Design for War (already referred to). Testimony of similar import has been furnished by the war correspondent, author, and broadcaster, Frazier Hunt. Addressing the Dallas Woman's Club late in 1950, he said, "American propaganda is whitewashing State Department mistakes... the free American mind has been sacrificed.... We can't resist because we don't have facts to go on."

For a startling instance of the terrible fact of censorship preparing for our surrender to the Soviet and the part played by Major General Clayton Bissell, A.C. of S., G-2 (the Chief of Army Intelligence), Ambassador to Moscow W. Averell Harriman, and Mr. Elmer Davis, Director of the Office of War Information, see The Truth About the Katyn Forest Massacre, by Arthur Bliss Lane, former U.S. Ambassador to Poland (The American Legion Magazine, Feb., 1952). There has been no official answer to Mr. Lane's question:

Who, at the very top levels of the United States Government, ordered the hiding of all intelligence reports unfavorable to the Soviets, and the dissemination only of lies and Communist propaganda?

Professor Harry Elmer Barnes's pamphlet, Was Roosevelt Pushed Into War by Popular Demand in 1941? (Freeman's Journal Press, Cooperstown, New York, 1951) furnishes an important observation on the fatal role of government censorship in undermining the soundness of the public mind and lists so well the significant matters on which knowledge was denied the people that an extensive quotation is here used as a summary of this section:

Fundamental to any assumption about the relation of public opinion to political action is this vital consideration: It is not only what the people think, but the soundness of their opinion which is most relevant. The founders of our democracy assumed that, if public opinion is to be a safe guide for statecraft, the electorate must be honestly and adequately informed. I do not believe that any interventionist, with any conscience whatever, would contend that the American public was candidly or sufficiently informed as to the real nature and intent of President Roosevelt's foreign policy from 1937 to Pearl Harbor. Our public opinion, however accurately or inaccurately measured by the polls, was not founded upon full factual information.

Among the vital matters not known until after the War was over were: (1) Roosevelt's statement to President Benes in May, 1939, that the United States would enter any war to defeat Hitler; (2) the secret Roosevelt-Churchill exchanges from 1939 to 1941; (3) Roosevelt's pressure on Britain, France and Poland to resist Hitler in 1939; (4) the fact that the Administration lawyers had decided that we were legally and morally in the War after the Destroyer Deal of September, 1940; (5) Ambassador Grew's warning in January, 1941, that, if the Japanese should ever pull a surprise attack on the United States, it would probably be at Pearl Harbor, and that Roosevelt, Stimson, Knox, Marshall and Stark agreed that Grew was right; (6) the Anglo-American Joint-Staff Conferences of January-March, 1941 (7) the drafting and approval of the Washington Master War Plan and the Army-Navy Joint War Plan by May, 1941; (8) the real facts about the nature and results of the Newfoundland Conference of August, 1941; (9) the devious diplomacy of Secretary Hull with Japan; (10) Konoye's vain appeal for a meeting with Roosevelt to settle the Pacific issues; (11) Roosevelt's various stratagems to procure an overt act from Germany and Japan; (12) Stimson's statement about the plan to maneuver Japan into firing the first shot; (13) the idea that, if Japan crossed a certain line, we would have to shoot; (14) the real nature and implications of Hull's ultimatum of November 26, 1941; and (15) the criminal failure to pass on to Admiral Kimmel and General Short information about the impending Japanese attack.

If the people are to be polled with any semblance of a prospect for any intelligent reaction, they must know what they are voting for. This was conspicuously NOT the case in the years before Pearl Harbor.

(b): DECEPTION OF AMERICANS
Almost, if not wholly, as indefensible as the secret maneuverings toward war, was the wholesale deception of the American people by suppressing or withholding facts on the eve of the presidential election of 1944. Three examples are here given.

First of all, the general public got no hint of the significance of the pourparlers with the "left", which led to the naming of the same slate of presidential electors by the Democratic, American Labor, and Liberal parties in New York--a deal generally credited with establishing the fateful grip (Executive Order of December 30, 1944) of Communists on vital power-positions in our government. Incidentally the demands of the extreme left were unassailable under the "We need those votes" political philosophy; for Dewey, Republican, received 2,987,647 votes to 2,478,598 received by Roosevelt, Democrat--and Roosevelt carried the state only with the help of the 496,405 American Labor (Marcantonio) votes and the 329,236 Liberal votes, both of which were cast for the Roosevelt electors!

As another example of catering to leftist votes, the President arrogantly deceived the public on October 28, 1944, when he "boasted of the amplitude of the ammunition and equipment which were being sent to American fighting men in battle." The truth, however, was that our fighting men would have sustained fewer casualties if they had received some of the supplies which at the time were being poured into Soviet Russia in quantities far beyond any current Soviet need. It was none other than Mrs. Anna Rosenberg, "an indispensable and ineradicable New Deal ideologist, old friend of Mrs. Roosevelt" who, about a month before the election, "went to Europe and learned that ammunition was being rationed" to our troops. "It apparently did not occur to Mrs. Rosenberg to give this information to the people before election day." After the election and before the end of the same tragic November, the details were made public, apparently to stimulate production (all quotes from Westbrook Pegler's column "Fair Enough", Nov. 27, 1944, Washington Times-Herald and other papers).

A third example of apparent falsification and deception had to do with President Roosevelt's health in the summer and autumn of 1944. His obvious physical deterioration was noted in the foreign press and was reported to proper officials by liaison officers to the White House (personal knowledge of the author). Indeed, it was generally believed in 1944, by those in a position to know, that President Roosevelt never recovered from his illness of December, 1943, and January, 1944, despite a long effort at convalescence in the spring weather at the "Hobcaw Barony" estate of his friend Bernard Baruch [H: While we are on the name Bernard Baruch I wish to REMIND YOU OF SOMETHING: Bernard Baruch was one of the ONES WHO MET WITH US OF COMMAND, ORIGINALLY SET FOR EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, CALIFORNIA. I WILL NOT DIVULGE WHERE IT ACTUALLY TOOK PLACE--BUT THE DECEIVERS OF YOU-THE-PEOPLE GO A LONG, LONG WAY "BACK", READERS! INDEED MR. BARUCH WAS THE MAJOR REASON THAT YOU ARE NOT FULLY AWARE OF SPACE COMMAND!] on the South Carolina coast. The imminence of the President's death was regarded as so certain that, after his nomination to a fourth term, Washington newspaper men passed around the answer "Wallace" to the spoken question "Who in your opinion will be the next president?" Former Postmaster General James A. Farley has testified that Roosevelt "was a dying man" at the time of his departure for Yalta ("America Betrayed at Yalta", by Congressman Lawrence H. Smith, National Republic, July, 1951). The widespread belief that Roosevelt was undergoing rapid deterioration was shortly to be given an appearance of certitude by the facts of physical decay revealed at the time of his death, which followed his inauguration by less than three months.

Nevertheless, Vice Admiral Ross T. McIntire, Surgeon-General of the Navy and Roosevelt's personal physician, was quoted thus in a LIFE article by Jeanne Perkins (July 21, 1944, p. 4) during the campaign: "The President's health is excellent. I can say that unqualifiedly."

(c): LOWER ECHELON CENSORSHIP
In World War II, censorship and falsification of one kind or another were accomplished not only in high government offices but in lower echelons as well. Several instances, of which three are here given, were personally encountered by the author.

(1) Perhaps the most glaring was the omission, in a War Department report (prepared by two officers of Eastern European background), of facts uncomplimentary to Communism in vital testimony on UNRRA given by two patriotic Polish-speaking Congressmen (both Northern Democrats) returning from an official mission to Poland for the House Foreign Affairs Committee. An investigation was initiated but before it could be completed both officers had been separated from the service.

(2) News was slanted as much as by a fifty-to-one pro-Leftist ratio in a War Department digest of U.S. newspaper opinion intended, presumably, to influence thought including the thought of U.S. soldiers. For example, the leftist PM (circulation 137,000) in one issue (Bureau of Publications Digest, March 14, 1946) was represented by 616 columnar inches of quoted matter in comparison with 35 1/2 columnar inches from the non-leftist N.Y. World-Telegram (circulation 389,257). There was also a marked regional slant. Thus in the issue under consideration 98.7 percent of the total space was given to the Northeastern portion of the United States, plus Missouri, while only 1.3 percent was given to the rest of the country, including South Atlantic States, Gulf States, Southwestern States, Prairie States, Rocky Mountain States, and Pacific Coast States.

(3) Late in 1945 the former Secretary of War, Major General Patrick D. Hurley, resigned as Ambassador to China to tell the American government and the American people about Soviet Russia's ability to "exert a potent and frequently decisive influence in American politics and in the American government, including the Department of Justice: General Hurley was expected to reveal "sensational disclosures" about certain members of the state Department's Far Eastern staff in particular (quoted passages are from the Washington Times-Herald, December 3, 1945); but he was belittled by high government agencies including the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate, and large sections of the press connived to smother his message. A scheduled Military Intelligence Service interview arranged with General Hurley by the author was canceled by higher authority. Be it said for the record, however, that the colonels and brigadier generals immediately superior to the author in Military Intelligence were eager seekers for the whole intelligence picture and at no time during the author's conducting over 2,000 interviews made any effort to suppress the collection of information--except to transmit the order just referred to.

Incidentally, the brush-off of General Hurley suggests that the leftist palace guard which was inherited from the Roosevelt administration had acquired in eight months a firmer grip on Mr. Truman that it ever had on the deceased president until he entered his last months of mental twilight. Roosevelt's confidence in Hurley is several times attested by General Elliott Roosevelt in As He Saw It. In Tehran the morning after the banquet at the Russian Embassy the President said:

I want you to do something for me, Elliott. Go find Pat Hurley, and tell him to get to work drawing up a draft memorandum guaranteeing Iran's independence.... I wish I had more men like Pat, on whom I could depend. The men in the State Department, those career diplomats...half the time I can't tell whether I should believe them or not (pp. 192-193).

At the second Cairo Conference the President told his son:

That Pat Hurley.... He did a good job. If anybody can staighten out the mess of internal Chinese politics, he's the man.... Men like Pat Hurley are invaluable. Why? Because they're loyal. I can give him assignments that I'd never give a man in the State Department because I can depend on him.... Any number of times the men in the State Department have tried to conceal messages to me, delay them, hold them up somehow, just because some of those career diplomats aren't in accord with what they know I think (pp. 204-205).

The above passages not only throw light on the enormity of the offense against America of preventing the testimony of General Hurley, but give on the Department of State a testimony that cannot be regarded as other than expert.

TO BE CONTINUED

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We will end this portion at this point and take up (d) when we again use this subject. It will deal with the ever increasing censorship.

Readers, it is all there for your witness--not new--but insidious in its gradual choking off of information flow to cover heinous actions of those you set forth to protect and lead you as a nation. May you be given into reason and understanding.