Clouding the Moral Issue

In February 1961, Schlesinger was first told of the "Cuba operation" that would eventually become the Bay of Pigs Invasion. He opposed the plan in a memorandum to the President, stating that "at one stroke you would dissipate all the extraordinary good will which has been rising toward the new Administration through the world. It would fix a malevolent image of the new Administration in the minds of millions". He did, however, suggest,

Would it not be possible to induce Castro to take offensive action first? He has already launched expeditions against Panama and against the Dominican Republic. One can conceive a black operation in, say, Haiti which might in time lure Castro into sending a few boatloads of men on to a Haitian beach in what could be portrayed as an effort to overthrow the Haitian regime. If only Castro could be induced to commit an offensive act, then the moral issue would be clouded, and the anti-US campaign would be hobbled from the start.

Old Chums

How Bank of England 'helped Nazis sell gold stolen from Czechs'

Russian Civil War? More Like World War 1, Part 2.

I find it a bit nonsensical when I read "Russian Civil War". Yes, there has been the "Whites", but without the war from the west (which was essentially continued World War 1), it would have been ended much earlier.

Just look at those who were fighting against Soviet Russia:

• British Empire (United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, India)
• Japan
• Czechoslovakia
• Poland
• United States
• France
• Estonia
• Romania
• Serbia
• Italy
• Greece
• China

The Soviet ended their participation in that stupid WW1 after 1917, and the whole allied "intervention" (or rather aggression) in 1918 was meant to "re-establish the Eastern front", to continue WW1, in order to fight communism. So when anybody asks when WW1 ended, tell them in 1920.

The Allies Second Front in World War II

The Allies Second Front in World War II: Why Were Canadian Troops Sacrificed at Dieppe?

"Our government rearmed the enemy in order to oppose our old allies"

How did I pick up this dark, ironical, flip view of the war? Why do I enjoy exhibiting it? The answer is that I contracted it in the infantry. Even when I write professionally about Walt Whitman or Samuel Johnson, about the theory of comparative literature or the problems facing the literary biographer, the voice that’s audible is that of the pissed-off infantryman, disguised as a literary and cultural commentator. He is embittered that the Air Corps had beds to sleep in, that Patton’s Third Army got all the credit, that noncombatants of the Medical Administrative and Quartermaster Corps wore the same battle stars as he, that soon after the war the “enemy” he had labored to destroy had been rearmed by his own government and positioned to oppose one of his old allies. “We broke our ass for nothin’,” says Sergeant Croft in The Naked and the Dead. These are this speaker’s residual complaints while he is affecting to be annoyed primarily by someone’s bad writing or slipshod logic or lazy editing or pretentious ideas. As Louis Simpson says, “The war made me a foot-soldier for the rest of my life,” and after any war foot soldiers are touchy.

Genuine Chums

In subsequent discussions Halifax ignored Eden's reservations and indicated clearly to Hitler that German designs on Austria and parts of Czechoslovakia and Poland were not regarded as illegitimate by the British, but that only peaceful processes of change would be acceptable. Writing to Baldwin on the subject of the conversation between Karl Burckhardt (the League of Nations' Commissioner of Danzig) and Hitler, Halifax said: "Nationalism and Racialism is a powerful force but I can't feel that it's either unnatural or immoral!. I cannot myself doubt that these fellows are genuine haters of Communism, etc.! And I daresay if we were in their position we might feel the same!"

Over 30 Million in East Europe people were murdered by these "genuine haters of Communism" – and Halifax aided and abetted it.