1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,560 Welcome to Keith Knight. Don't tread on Anyone in the 2 00:00:02,560 --> 00:00:06,840 Libertarian Institute. This is a section of a book 3 00:00:06,840 --> 00:00:11,040 titled Freedom Betrayed by Former President Herbert Hoover. 4 00:00:11,040 --> 00:00:15,880 He was president of America from 1929 to 1933. 5 00:00:16,239 --> 00:00:19,760 In this book, he makes the case that the US should not have 6 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:22,760 gotten involved in the Second Great War, both with the 7 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:28,280 information you had going into the war and even in retrospect. 8 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:32,439 Originally the book was titled Lost Statesmanship, and at the 9 00:00:32,439 --> 00:00:36,840 end of this 1000 page book he summarizes his entire thesis in 10 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:40,520 19 points. I wanted to go through those. 11 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:45,800 Here is a review of Lost Statesmanship 19 times in seven 12 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:52,160 years, written in 1953. This introduction is by George 13 00:00:52,160 --> 00:00:55,320 Nash, who is the editor of this volume. 14 00:00:56,120 --> 00:01:00,080 These are the final climactic pages of the last chapter of the 15 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:05,040 1953 version of Hoover's magnum opus, which for a time he 16 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:08,760 entitled Lost Statesmanship. These pages were probably 17 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:13,360 written very early in 1953, not long after the presidential 18 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:17,520 election of 1952. In this chapter, Hoover summed 19 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:21,640 up with remarkable candor and intensity his revisionist 20 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:24,840 indictment of the Roosevelt, Truman foreign policy. 21 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:29,400 I was opposed to the war and every step of policies in it, he 22 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:33,200 wrote. I have no apologies, no regrets. 23 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:38,040 A review of law statesmanship 19 times in seven years. 24 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:42,280 There are those who still defend Roosevelt and Truman by blaming 25 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:46,880 Hitler and Stalin for all the calamities which have come upon 26 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:50,280 the world. That they were malignant and 27 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:53,520 malign figures in human history needs no demonstration. 28 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:57,840 Any review of American and British law, statesmanship in 29 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:01,400 dealing with them, however, has no excuse in history. 30 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:06,240 Without these gigantic errors, these calamities could not have 31 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:09,639 come to the Western world. I shall list those major 32 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:14,680 occasions here, lest the reader in his maze of actions has 33 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:18,200 forgotten who was responsible for what and when. 34 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:21,880 I refer the reader to those chapters in this memoir where 35 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:25,440 the facts and reasons for their convictions are given. 36 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:32,200 The World Economic Conference of 1933 first The first time of 37 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:36,560 importance that Roosevelt became lost in international 38 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:41,360 statesmanship was his destruction of the 1933 World 39 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:45,240 Economic Conference the. This conference was arranged by 40 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:49,640 British Prime Minister McDonald and myself to take place in 41 00:02:49,640 --> 00:02:53,720 January 1933. Owing to the election of Mr. 42 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:56,640 Roosevelt, it was postponed until June. 43 00:02:56,960 --> 00:03:00,280 At that time, the world was just beginning to recover from the 44 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:04,160 worldwide depression, but was engaged in bitter currency wars 45 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:09,840 and multiplying Trade barriers. Hoover doesn't mention that one 46 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:13,320 of the major trade barriers was the Smoot Hawley tariff that he 47 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:18,640 enacted and signed into law. The preliminary work had been 48 00:03:18,640 --> 00:03:21,720 done by experts. Roosevelt called 10 prime 49 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:24,600 ministers to Washington, with whom he agreed to restore the 50 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:27,520 gold standard in international transactions. 51 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:32,240 Suddenly, during the conference, he repudiated the bombshell 52 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:35,840 these undertakings, and the conference cracked and died 53 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:39,520 without accomplishment. His own Secretary of State Hull 54 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:43,440 explicitly denounced this action as the roots of war. 55 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:47,240 World War 2IN short, if countries are not trading with 56 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:50,400 each other, it is not in their economic interest to make sure 57 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:52,760 the other doesn't get bombed to smithereens. 58 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:57,040 The recognition of Communist Russia in 1933. 59 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:02,400 Second Roosevelt's second law statesmanship was in recognition 60 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:05,480 of Communist Russia in November 1933. 61 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:09,720 Four presidents and five secretaries of state, Democrats 62 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:13,080 as well as Republicans, had, with knowledge of the whole 63 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:16,560 purpose and methods of international communism, refused 64 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:19,240 such action. They knew and said the 65 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:22,000 Communists would be able to penetrate the United States 66 00:04:22,280 --> 00:04:25,200 carrying their germs of destruction of religious faith, 67 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:27,720 freedom of men and independence of nations. 68 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:32,720 They considered our recognition of Soviet Russia would give it 69 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:35,480 prestige and force among other nations. 70 00:04:35,840 --> 00:04:39,480 All of Roosevelt's puerile agreements with them that they 71 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:42,240 would not deal in their wickedness within our borders 72 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:47,240 were on the record repudiated. In less than 48 hours, a long 73 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:50,480 train of communists and fellow travelers were taken into the 74 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:53,480 highest levels of administration. 5th Column 75 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:57,240 action spread over the country with a long series of traitorous 76 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:01,360 acts during his remaining 12 years in the presidency. 77 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:04,880 So this was after the Soviets committed all the atrocities in 78 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:07,560 Ukraine, referred to as the Holodomor. 79 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:10,720 Remember, we can't talk to Vladimir Putin because he did 80 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:13,600 bad things in Ukraine, but Joseph Stalin, who killed far 81 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:17,720 more people in Ukraine in a much more unprovoked manner, Well, 82 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:20,480 that's someone we can recognize as legitimate, have 83 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:23,320 conversations with, and have a formal alliance with. 84 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:26,560 It's also worth noting international communism referred 85 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:30,840 to world domination under a dictatorship of a proletariat. 86 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:33,600 There was an explicit plan to take over the world. 87 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:36,520 Because remember, the reason we had to go to war with the 88 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:39,320 National Socialists of Germany and bomb their civilian 89 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:42,560 population into oblivion is because they were trying to take 90 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:45,000 over the world. Well, their government was, but 91 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,760 it's OK to hold people responsible for what their 92 00:05:47,840 --> 00:05:52,400 government does in their name. Next, Munich. 3rd. 93 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:56,280 I am not disposed to condemn the agreement at Munich in September 94 00:05:56,280 --> 00:06:00,560 1938 for transfer of Sudeten Germans to the Reich, because it 95 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:04,160 was a hideous heritage from Versailles which made such 96 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:08,960 action inevitable. However, by Munich Hitler opened 97 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:13,680 the gates for consummation of his repeated determinations to 98 00:06:13,840 --> 00:06:16,320 invade Russia. Having gone that far in 99 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:20,280 providing for the inevitable war between the dictators, the lost 100 00:06:20,280 --> 00:06:25,080 statesmanship was then trying to stop these monsters from mutual 101 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:29,120 destruction. So in 1938 people were saying 102 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:31,800 Chamberlain should have declared war against the National 103 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:36,480 Socialists because they took the Sudetenland, 1/5 of 104 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:40,520 Czechoslovakia's area. After the war, the Bolshevik 105 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:44,080 regime occupied all of Czechoslovakia, not just the 106 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:46,840 Sudetenland, and there was no declaration of war. 107 00:06:46,840 --> 00:06:50,480 Because sometimes it's just not worth engaging in a mass murder 108 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:54,080 campaign, even if there's a very bad government calling the shots 109 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:56,360 for the livelihoods of millions of people. 110 00:06:57,480 --> 00:07:01,720 Next, the British, French guarantee of Poland and Romania 111 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:06,040 in 1939. Fourth, the 4th abysmal loss of 112 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:09,960 statesmanship was when the British and French guarantee the 113 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:14,040 independence of Poland and Romania at the end of March 114 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:16,880 1939. It was at this point that the 115 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:20,680 European democracies reversed their previous policies of 116 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:25,360 keeping hands off the inevitable war between Hitler and Stalin. 117 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:29,760 It was probably the greatest blunder in the whole history of 118 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:33,560 European power diplomacy. Britain and France were helpless 119 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:37,960 to save Poland from invasion. By this act, however, they threw 120 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:41,920 the bodies of democracy between Hitler and Stalin. 121 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:45,440 By their actions they not only protected Stalin from Hitler, 122 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:49,040 but they enabled him to sell his influence to the highest bidder. 123 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:53,680 The Allies did bid, but Stalin's price was annexation of the 124 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:58,320 defenseless people of the Baltic States and E Poland, a moral 125 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:00,520 price which the Allies could not meet. 126 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:02,600 Stalin got his price from Hitler. 127 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:07,040 Yet Hitler had no intention of abandoning his determination to 128 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:10,880 expand in Southeast Europe and to destroy the communist Vatican 129 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:15,080 in Moscow. But now he must of necessity 130 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:18,920 first neutralize the Western democracies, which he proceeded 131 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:21,400 to do. The long train of hideous World 132 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:25,320 War 2 started from the blunder of the Polish guarantees. 133 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:30,160 Roosevelt had some part in these power politics, but the record 134 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:33,799 is yet too incomplete to establish how much Churchill, 135 00:08:33,919 --> 00:08:37,320 not yet in the government, had contributed something by Golding 136 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:41,240 Chamberlain to the desperate action after his appeasement at 137 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:44,400 Munich. It doesn't necessarily make you 138 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:48,840 a great person to say that the people of your country now have 139 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:52,800 an obligation to make sure this country is independent. 140 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:57,080 Much like if you write someone a blank check, they have no 141 00:08:57,080 --> 00:09:01,320 incentive to spend money wisely. If you give a country the 142 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:04,920 kernels in a certain country a war guarantee, they have no 143 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:08,120 incentive to make sure they're acting peacefully and not 144 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:10,080 provoking conflicts with other countries. 145 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:13,640 When you have a blank check from the British Empire, who at this 146 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:17,480 time I think controlled 25% of land on the planet Earth, well 147 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:20,600 you're going to act in a more aggressive manner in the city of 148 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:24,680 Danzig against the German minority there then you 149 00:09:24,680 --> 00:09:28,240 otherwise likely would if you didn't have such a blank check. 150 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:31,320 This just puts massive obligations on your domestic 151 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:33,760 population. It's hard enough to defend your 152 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:37,040 own country, let alone countries thousands of miles away. 153 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:41,640 So the war for Polish independence, which according to 154 00:09:41,640 --> 00:09:44,880 Neville Chamberlain was the reason he declared war against 155 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:48,040 Britain and France, declared war against Germany on September 156 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:51,560 3rd, 1939. The war for Polish independence 157 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:55,400 led to the death of 7 million Poles and ended with Poland 158 00:09:55,400 --> 00:10:02,120 under Bolshevik occupation. Next United States Undeclared 159 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:06,360 war 5th The fifth major blunder in statesmanship was when 160 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:10,320 Roosevelt, in the winter of 1941, threw the United States 161 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:14,480 into undeclared war with Germany and Japan, in total violation of 162 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:19,360 promises upon which he had been elected a few weeks before. 163 00:10:19,680 --> 00:10:24,040 This is in reference to the Greer incident of September 164 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:30,400 1941. Failure in watchful waiting 6th 165 00:10:30,680 --> 00:10:34,360 In the weeks before Lend Lease and its war powers were forced 166 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:37,880 upon the American people, Roosevelt knew definitely of 167 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:41,720 Hitler's determination to attack Russia, and he informed the 168 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:43,920 Russians of it. He should have turned away from 169 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:47,640 the undeclared war on Germany, confined Lend Lease to simple 170 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:51,080 aid to Britain by way of finances to buy munitions, 171 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:55,200 supplies and ships, thus keeping within international law. 172 00:10:55,800 --> 00:11:00,520 Statesmanship at that moment demanded imperialistly a policy 173 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:06,800 of watchful waiting. Next alliance with Stalin 7th. 174 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:11,040 Indeed, the greatest loss of statesmanship in all American 175 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:15,120 history was the tacit American alliance and support of 176 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:20,680 Communist Russia when Hitler made his attack in June 1941. 177 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:23,880 This again is referring to the Lend Lease package. 178 00:11:24,560 --> 00:11:27,720 Even the false theory that American military strength was 179 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:32,880 needed to save Britain had now visibly vanished by diversion of 180 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:35,200 Nazi furies into the swamps of Russia. 181 00:11:35,560 --> 00:11:40,200 No one could any longer doubt the safety of Britain and all 182 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:43,440 the western world. These monstrous dictators were 183 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:46,200 bound to exhaust themselves no matter who won. 184 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:51,240 Even if Hitler won military victory, he would be a Mensch 185 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:53,920 for years trying to hold these people in subjugation. 186 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:58,320 And he was bound, even in victory to exhaust his military 187 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:00,680 strength. And the Russians were bound to 188 00:12:00,680 --> 00:12:04,080 destroy any sources of supplies he might have hoped for. 189 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:06,880 His own generals opposed his action. 190 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:12,400 This is why there is such a correlation between expanding 191 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:15,520 empires, the time they expand, and when they end up falling. 192 00:12:15,640 --> 00:12:19,440 The Ottoman Empire fell from over expansion and involvement 193 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:22,560 in the First World War. The Japanese Empire expanded and 194 00:12:22,560 --> 00:12:26,480 was spread too thin. The first German Reich under 195 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:29,720 Kaiser Wilhelm expanded. Well that was arguably the 196 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:33,560 second, but the German Empire of Kaiser Wilhelm expanded and 197 00:12:33,560 --> 00:12:35,040 fell. The British Empire in the Second 198 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:37,560 World War over expanded itself and fell. 199 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:41,720 Tsar Nicholas getting involved in the First World War spread 200 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:44,640 his troops too thin and couldn't defend his own capital against 201 00:12:44,640 --> 00:12:48,560 the Bolshevik revolutionaries. So it doesn't necessarily make 202 00:12:48,560 --> 00:12:52,920 you pro America if you want America to constantly get 203 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:55,000 involved in wars and spread ourselves too thin. 204 00:12:56,880 --> 00:13:00,640 American aid to Russia meant victory for Stalin and the 205 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:02,520 spread of communism over the world. 206 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:07,440 Statesmanship again imperialistly cried to keep out, 207 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:10,280 be armed to the teeth and await their mutual destruction. 208 00:13:10,560 --> 00:13:13,520 When that day came, there would have been opportunity for the 209 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:17,320 United States and Britain to use their strength to bring a real 210 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:19,200 peace and security to the free world. 211 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:22,880 No greater opportunity for lasting peace ever came to a 212 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:27,480 president, and he muffed it, referring to the spread of 213 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:31,920 communism over the world. You had the Cambridge 5A number 214 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:34,120 of communists that had infiltrated Britain. 215 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:39,040 The Venona papers confirmed that roughly 300 people in the State 216 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:43,160 Department or actively in support of the Soviets during 217 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:46,800 the Second World War, people in very high levels of a position. 218 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:52,040 Today roughly 17% of professors at universities in the social 219 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:55,160 sciences explicitly identify as Marxist. 220 00:13:55,640 --> 00:14:00,680 There is basically no discussion of abolishing the income tax, 221 00:14:00,680 --> 00:14:04,080 abolishing the welfare state. It's not that more people 222 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:08,200 identify as communism today, but more people today have embraced 223 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:11,000 the assumptions of communism. When you look at the scale from 224 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:14,160 total private property and voluntary exchanges capitalism 225 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:17,480 to complete communism, the abolition of private property, 226 00:14:17,680 --> 00:14:22,080 people are continuously getting nudged in the anti voluntary 227 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:28,800 exchange end of the scale. Next, the economic sanctions on 228 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:33,480 Japan of July 1941 Eighth the 8th gigantic error in 229 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:36,920 Roosevelt's statesmanship was the total economic sanctions on 230 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:40,400 Japan one month later at the end of July 1941. 231 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:44,280 The sanctions were war in every essence except shooting. 232 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:47,680 Roosevelt had been warned time and time again by his own 233 00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:52,120 officials that such provocation would sooner or later bring 234 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:55,600 reprisals of war. This is in reference to the the 235 00:14:56,200 --> 00:15:01,480 Japanese Export Control Act, the US Export Control Act of 1940 236 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:05,520 against Japan, as well as the freezing of Japanese assets by 237 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:08,920 President Roosevelt. Wasn't too kind of the domestic 238 00:15:08,920 --> 00:15:11,280 population either. Confiscating the nation's gold 239 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:17,200 with executive orders. Next, refusal to accept Konoye's 240 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:21,880 peace proposals, 9th. The 9th time statesmanship was 241 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:25,680 wholly lost was Roosevelt's contemptuous refusal of Prime 242 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:30,240 Minister Konoye's proposal for peace in the Pacific of 243 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:33,280 September 1941. The acceptance of these 244 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:37,640 proposals was prayerfully urged by both the American and British 245 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:41,880 ambassadors in Japan. The terms Konoye proposed would 246 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:46,080 have accomplished every American purpose except possibly the 247 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:49,560 return of Manchuria, and even this was thrown open to 248 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:52,320 discussion. The cynic will recall that 249 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:56,360 Roosevelt was willing to provoke a Great War on his flank over 250 00:15:56,360 --> 00:16:00,960 this remote question and then gave Manchuria to Communist 251 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:05,800 Russia. Next, refusal to accept a three 252 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:08,920 month standstill agreement with Japan 10th. 253 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:13,480 The 10th loss of statesmanship was the refusal to accept the 254 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:17,160 proposals which his ambassador informed him came from the 255 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:21,960 Emperor of Japan for a three month standstill agreement in 256 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:25,960 November 1941. Our military officials strongly 257 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:30,120 urged it on Roosevelt. Japan was then alarmed that 258 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:34,560 Russia might defeat her ally Hitler. 90 days delay would have 259 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:38,240 taken all the starch out of Japan and kept war out of the 260 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:41,760 Pacific. As the Stimson Diary disclosed, 261 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:44,840 Roosevelt and his officials were searching for a method to 262 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:48,080 stimulate an overt act from the Japanese. 263 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:53,200 This is according this is in reference to Secretary of War 264 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:59,400 Henry Stimson, November 25th of 1941, he wrote in his diary That 265 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:04,880 was found in the 1946 Pearl Harbor investigation, he said. 266 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:08,960 We met with the President. Secretary Hull was there. 267 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:12,760 We discussed the likelihood that the Japanese could attack as 268 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:16,079 soon as next Monday. The question was how we should 269 00:17:16,079 --> 00:17:19,599 maneuver them into making the first overt move. 270 00:17:21,839 --> 00:17:25,560 Then Hull issued his foolish ultimatum and we were defeated 271 00:17:25,560 --> 00:17:30,400 at Pearl Harbor. This was in Hawaii, which was 272 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:33,880 not a state in 1941. It wouldn't become a state until 273 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:37,280 1959. So this wasn't even on American 274 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:39,840 land. Well, it was American troops in 275 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:44,600 a colony. The trade of losses and this 276 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:49,120 Japanese victory in the Japanese occupation of all South Asia 277 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:52,840 were incalculable. Further, with the loss of sea 278 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:56,440 control, Hitler and Togo were able to destroy our shipping 279 00:17:56,440 --> 00:18:02,160 insight of our own shores. So what he's saying in the 280 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:05,760 Japanese occupation of all South Asia were incalculable. 281 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:11,040 Japan at the time had been occupying Korea since 1910 and 282 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:14,240 had been occupying Vietnam since September of 1940. 283 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:18,320 When you withdraw the troops from a certain place, it doesn't 284 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:22,160 necessarily mean a Thomas Jefferson comes to the top of 285 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:25,840 the government and everyone embraces democracy or freedom or 286 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:29,280 anything else that is reflecting civilized society. 287 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:33,520 It tends to be rather chaotic and create the very power vacuum 288 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:37,480 status accuse, you know, libertarians of creating. 289 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:41,440 So when you had the withdrawal of troops from Korea and 290 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:48,400 Vietnam, it led to a proxy war in Korea for from 1950 to 1953, 291 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:52,760 killing roughly 2 to 3,000,000 Koreans. 10 years later you had 292 00:18:52,760 --> 00:18:57,800 the US Soviet proxy war in Vietnam, killing millions of 293 00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:01,840 people there along with 10s of thousands of American soldiers. 294 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:06,480 Next, the demand for unconditional surrender. 11th. 295 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:10,320 The 11th gigantic error in Roosevelt's statesmanship was 296 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:12,720 demand for unconditional surrender. 297 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:18,240 Casablanca in January 1943 where without our military or even 298 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:21,360 Churchill's advice, he was seeking a headline. 299 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:24,320 Here is a great lesson in public choice theory. 300 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:26,800 Human beings are self interested. 301 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:30,480 Every time you watch Netflix, instead of going and feeding the 302 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:33,840 homeless, you are engaged in a selfish action. 303 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:36,000 There's really nothing wrong with this overall. 304 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:41,120 The problem is when you're in a free market, in order to get 305 00:19:41,120 --> 00:19:44,800 more power, money, social status, influence, you can't get 306 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:49,800 anyone's time or money unless they give it to you voluntarily 307 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:52,800 because there's the freedom of disassociation principle when it 308 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:56,480 comes to the political realm. People are able to get your time 309 00:19:56,760 --> 00:19:58,800 and your money without your consent. 310 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:02,240 So people are selfish universally in both systems. 311 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:06,440 The political system makes it so you can benefit at the expense 312 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:09,200 of others. Roosevelt seeking a headline 313 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:11,520 meant. Even though it would cost 314 00:20:11,520 --> 00:20:14,120 hundreds of thousands of civilian lives and thousands of 315 00:20:14,120 --> 00:20:17,600 American lives, it was still worth him getting the headline 316 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:20,800 for so he could increase his social status at the expense of 317 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:23,400 so many other people. That's why politics is so 318 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:27,000 dangerous. It played into the hands of 319 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:29,960 every enemy, militarist and propagandist. 320 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:33,600 It prolonged the war with Germany, Japan and Italy. 321 00:20:34,120 --> 00:20:37,200 And in the end, major concessions in surrender were 322 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:42,040 given to both Japan and Italy. It held out no hope of peace to 323 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:44,480 the Germans if they got rid of the Nazis. 324 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:48,960 The war to the bitter end left no semblance of structure in 325 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:51,680 Germany upon which to build again. 326 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:55,680 So without the Japanese Empire, you have no bulwark against the 327 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:59,840 Communists in China, and without any German Empire or strong 328 00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:03,280 military, there's no bulwark against the Soviets expanding 329 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:05,480 into Europe. So there's always costs and 330 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:07,520 benefits that you have to look at with these things. 331 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:13,240 The sacrifice of the Baltic States and E Poland at Moscow, 332 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:17,680 October 1943, 12th. The 12th era of law 333 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:21,600 statesmanship was the sacrifice of free nations at the Foreign 334 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:25,000 Ministers meeting at Moscow in October 1943. 335 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:29,000 Here, amid the words of freedom and democracy, not a word of 336 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:32,200 protest was made against the known Russian intentions to 337 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:37,880 annex the Baltic States, E Poland, E Finland, Bessarabia 338 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:42,200 and Bukovina, which he had in his agreement with Hitler. 339 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:46,080 The acquiescence marked the abandonment of the last words of 340 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:48,920 the Four freedoms and the Atlantic Charter. 341 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:53,400 This is the great lesson of war. Not only are the costs 342 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:56,800 extraordinarily high monetarily and the number of people getting 343 00:21:56,800 --> 00:22:00,480 killed, the opportunity cost wasted resources, but the 344 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:03,560 outcomes are extraordinarily uncertain. 345 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:07,200 Would the American people have supported declaring war if they 346 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:09,720 knew at the end of it they'd have to fight a proxy war in 347 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:13,440 Korea as a result, a proxy war in Vietnam as a result, And the 348 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:18,080 Bolsheviks would control Eastern Europe and the Chinese would end 349 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:20,960 up, the communists would end up controlling China. 350 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:24,000 The outcomes are extremely unforeseeable. 351 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:28,400 So you should be very, very, very hesitant to embrace such a 352 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:32,800 high death toll. Next, Tehran and its sacrifice 353 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:37,600 of seven more nations, 13th. The 13th, and possibly one of 354 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:41,400 the greatest of all confused wanderings in Roosevelt's and 355 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:45,520 Churchill statesmanship, was at Tehran in December 1943. 356 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:49,160 Here was confirmation of the acquiescence at the Moscow 357 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:53,080 Conference of the annexations. Here was the acceptance of 358 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:58,200 Stalin's doctrine of a periphery of friendly border states, the 359 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:01,520 puppet Communist governments over seven nations. 360 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:06,200 The seven nations he's referring to is the Bolsheviks occupying 361 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:10,520 Poland, Germany, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Yugoslavia 362 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:13,880 and Hungary. So again, a war that was 363 00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:18,440 declared over a violation of independence led to massive 364 00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:21,160 violations of the independence of many other countries. 365 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:26,040 Fidelity to international morals and their own promises of 366 00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:30,000 independence of nations and free men demanded that Roosevelt and 367 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:33,680 Churchill at Tehran stand firm against Stalin once and for all. 368 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:39,200 There were by this time no such military perils of Stalin's 369 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:42,680 making a separate piece that could justify these agreements, 370 00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:48,120 acquiescences and appeasements. Remember, if we ever don't like 371 00:23:48,120 --> 00:23:52,880 what the domestic government is doing, we must appease them and 372 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:56,280 we must always be peaceful. We must try to persuade 373 00:23:56,440 --> 00:24:00,200 voluntarily. But if any other foreign 374 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:03,240 government potentially violates the freedom of a different 375 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:07,200 country thousands of miles away, well then we must declare war 376 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:09,040 and start killing civilians immediately. 377 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:15,240 Yalta, the secret agreements on the downfall of nations, 14th. 378 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:18,720 The 14th fatal loss of statesmanship was by Roosevelt 379 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:22,040 and Churchill at Yalta in February 1945. 380 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:25,720 Not only were all Stalin's encroachments on the 381 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:29,840 independence of a dozen nations ratified, but with a long series 382 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:33,920 of secret agreements, other malign forces were set in motion 383 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:37,200 which will continue to plague the world with international 384 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:40,640 dangers for generations. Knowing that Stalin had already 385 00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:43,720 created communist puppet governments over seven nations, 386 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:47,880 Roosevelt and Churchill sought to camouflage their lost 387 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:52,400 statesmanship with gadgets entitled Free and Unfettered 388 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:56,440 Elections, representation of all liberal elements. 389 00:24:56,960 --> 00:25:00,320 Even the strongest defender on military grounds of appeasement 390 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:03,280 at Tehran could no longer defend it at Yalta. 391 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:07,720 Here at last a stand might have been made for decency and free 392 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:12,040 mankind, which would have left America with cleaner hands and 393 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:17,840 the moral respect of free men. Refusal of Japanese priests. 394 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:24,320 Proposals of May to July 1945. 15th the 15th time of law 395 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:28,200 Statesmanship was in respect to Japan in May, June and July 396 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:31,760 1945. Truman refused to take notice of 397 00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:36,120 the Japanese white flags. Truman was not obligated to 398 00:25:36,120 --> 00:25:38,400 Roosevelt's unconditional surrender folly. 399 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:41,840 It had been denounced by our own military leaders in Europe. 400 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:46,440 Peace could have been made with Japan with only one concession. 401 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:51,920 That was the preservation of the Mikado, who was the spiritual as 402 00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:54,000 well as the secular head of state. 403 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:58,240 His position was rooted in 1000 years of Japanese religious 404 00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:03,320 faith and tradition, and we finally conceded this after 405 00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:06,640 hundreds of thousands of human lives had been sacrificed. 406 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:12,920 Remember, it is really bad when someone dies in the free market 407 00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:15,000 on the job. It means we need massive 408 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:16,880 regulation. We might even need to abolish 409 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:19,440 capitalism. But when governments kill 10s of 410 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:21,840 millions of people, well, nothing wrong with that. 411 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:25,680 Maybe just, you know, alter a few of the 10s of thousands of 412 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:29,440 laws no one has ever read. Maybe get a different psychopath 413 00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:32,120 controlling the central bank and having the right to tax and the 414 00:26:32,120 --> 00:26:34,800 right to conscript. Next. 415 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:40,360 Potsdam 16th, the 16th time of blind statesman was Truman At 416 00:26:40,360 --> 00:26:42,800 Potsdam. Power had now passed to 417 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:46,360 inexperienced men on the democratic countries, and the 418 00:26:46,360 --> 00:26:49,840 Communists had their way at every consequential point. 419 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:53,640 The whole Potsdam agreement was a series of ratifications and 420 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:57,040 amplifications of the previous surrenders to Stalin. 421 00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:01,520 Not only were all the communist annexations and puppets further 422 00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:06,360 cemented to Stalin, but the provisions as to government in 423 00:27:06,360 --> 00:27:11,600 Germany and Austria were so set as to send parts of these states 424 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:15,040 into Stalin's bosom. Referring to the occupation of 425 00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:19,400 East Germany for the next 5 decades and the occupation the 426 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:23,480 Bolshevik occupation of Austria until 1955. 427 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:28,840 The result of reparations policies was to load the 428 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:34,200 American taxpayers with billions of the cost for relief of idle 429 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:38,120 Germans and stifle the recovery of Germany and thus of Europe. 430 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:41,600 For years. The wickedness of slavery, of 431 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:45,240 war prisoners, the expelling of whole peoples from their homes 432 00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:47,600 was ratified and amplified from Yalta. 433 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:51,800 This is in reference to what's referred to as Operation Keel 434 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:56,240 Hall. Beyond all this, against advice 435 00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:59,800 from leading men, the ultimatum was issued to Japan of 436 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:03,800 unconditional surrender without the saving clause allowing them 437 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:07,920 to retain the Mikado recommended by a score of experienced 438 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:11,880 American voices. The Japanese in reply asked for 439 00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:16,920 only this concession, which was met with the atomic bomb and 440 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:21,880 then conceded. In the end, dropping the atomic 441 00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:26,720 bomb 17th, the 17th wandering of American statesmanship was 442 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:30,600 Truman's immoral order to drop the atomic bomb on the Japanese. 443 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:34,720 Not only had Japan been repeatedly suing for peace, but 444 00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:38,680 it was the act of unparalleled brutality in all American 445 00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:41,520 history. It will forever weigh heavily on 446 00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:48,320 the American conscience, giving China to now say tongue. 18th. 447 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:53,000 The 18th series of steps in loss of statesmanship was by Truman, 448 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:56,760 Marshall, and Atchinson in respect to China, beginning with 449 00:28:56,760 --> 00:29:00,520 Roosevelt's insistence to Chiang Kai Shek of the Communist 450 00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:03,280 coalition government. There followed Roosevelt's 451 00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:07,480 hideous secret agreement as to China at Yalta, which gave 452 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:11,560 Mongolia and in effect Manchuria to Russia. 453 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:15,960 Truman sacrificed all China to the Communists by insistence of 454 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:19,840 his left wing advisors and his appointment of General Marshall 455 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:23,120 to execute their will. He must be assessed with a 456 00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:27,480 gigantic laws of statesmanship in those policies which in the 457 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:33,360 end made 450 million Asiatic peoples a Communist puppet state 458 00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:37,480 under Moscow. The Dragon's teeth of World War 459 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:42,760 319th from the Moscow, the Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam 460 00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:46,120 conferences, the policies as to China, the Dragon's teeth of a 461 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:49,760 Third World War were sown in every quarter of the world, and 462 00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:54,520 we were to see the Cold War over years and finally the hideous 463 00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:59,400 war in Korea and the feeble N Atlantic Alliance with all its 464 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:04,000 dangers of American defeat. Again, the end. 465 00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:09,320 I do not need end these volumes with more than a few sentences. 466 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:13,320 I was opposed to the war and every step of policies in it. 467 00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:17,960 I have no apologies, no regrets. I had warned the American people 468 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:21,040 time and again against becoming involved. 469 00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:25,280 I stated repeatedly it's only end would be to promote 470 00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:28,640 communism over the earth, that we would impoverish the United 471 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:32,200 States and the whole world. The situation of the world today 472 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:35,680 is my vindication. Despite these physical losses 473 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:39,160 and these moral political disasters and these 474 00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:44,000 international follies, Americans can have faith that we will grow 475 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:47,760 strong again, that the March of progress will sometime be 476 00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:49,480 renewed. Despite the drift to 477 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:52,720 collectivism, despite the degeneration in government, 478 00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:56,320 despite the demagogic intellectuals, despite the 479 00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:59,480 corruption in our government and the moral corruption of our 480 00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:01,880 peoples, we still hold to Christianity. 481 00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:06,520 We still have the old ingenuity of our scientific and industrial 482 00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:09,240 progress. We have 35,000,000 children 483 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:13,360 marching through our schools and 2.5 million in our institutions 484 00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:16,480 of higher learning. Sometime these forces will 485 00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:19,080 triumph over the ills in American life. 486 00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:23,000 The promise of a greater America abides in the millions of 487 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:26,240 cottages throughout the land where men and women are still 488 00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:29,920 resolute in freedom in their hearts the spirit of America 489 00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:32,720 still lives. The boys and girls from those 490 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:36,320 homes will someday throw off these disasters and 491 00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:40,120 frustrations, and we'll recreate their America again. 492 00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:45,520 The election of a Republican administration in 1952 is the 493 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:49,080 sign of this turning. Thanks to everyone for watching 494 00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:51,960 Keith Knight, Don't Tread on Anyone, and the Libertarian 495 00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:55,000 Institute. Of by the way, that people on my 496 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:58,640 side, I'll just say I'll just admit it on the right. 497 00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:02,560 You know, I've spent the last 80 years defending dropping nuclear 498 00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:05,280 weapons on civilians. Like, are you joking? 499 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,240 That's just like prima facie evil. 500 00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:10,840 If you can't. Well, if we hadn't done that, 501 00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:12,760 then this that the other thing that was actually a great 502 00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:14,440 savings. Like no, it's wrong to drop 503 00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:17,520 nuclear weapons on people. And if you find yourself arguing 504 00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:19,800 that it's a good thing to drop nuclear weapons on people, then 505 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:20,480 you are evil.