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Their sinister game, said G-Man Hoover, was snitching important national defense secrets and transmitting them to a "foreign power." Short-wave radio messages, courier service via Clipper planes, code messages in secret ink, intricate financing of conspiracies-they used them all. Their clearing house: the Little Casino...
...Hoover said his sleuths had been on the trail for two years, called it the greatest spy roundup since World...
From Herbert Hoover (see p. 11) down to the smallest hater of Communism, far too many U.S. citizens reacted with an emotional belch. They apparently forgot two essential realities: 1) the Soviet Union, far from rising as a new danger, was fighting for its life; 2) the better fight it puts up, the more it weakens the power of Nazi Germany to destroy democracy throughout the world...
...Roosevelt dream, the Seaway is not a Roosevelt idea. Joint U.S.-Canadian palavers to deepen the St. Lawrence began in 1895. Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover plumped for the Seaway with zero results. President Roosevelt, defeated when in 1934 he sent the Senate a Seaway Treaty (which needed a two-thirds vote), this time sent it to Congress as an "agreement" (needing only majority vote) and tagged it, like everything else in 1941, a measure for national defense...
Carl Brand's book (the 17th publication of the Hoover Library on War, Revolution, and Peace) answers an important question: Why did British labor stand solidly behind its Government while French labor was riddled with disloyalty? His answer: British labor held firmly for reform and against revolution in a 20-year struggle with the Communists, which Author Brand documents in great detail...