Posted on 12/29/2013 7:59:25 AM PST by the scotsman
In the summer of 1940, as British pilots fought desperately for the skies of southern England, the battle was joined on a very different front, thousands of miles from the coast of Kent.
It was fought through the political salons of Washington DC, the boardrooms and the smoky nightclubs of New York.
The protagonists had no uniform save that of a well-tailored suit; their weapons were native cunning, a plausible manner, and, from time to time, a concealed revolver.
This was the secret battle for America, ordered by Winston Churchill himself, and the fate of the free world hung upon it.
Today, we can reveal the untold story of how British agents went to war on Wall Street, a story pieced together from a remarkable collection of secret intelligence reports lying untouched for decades.
Uncovered by the MoS, the documents show how British agents took on Nazi sympathisers in the US with a masterful campaign of dirty tricks and disinformation, how they outmanoeuvred Hitler’s network of American allies and how they, ultimately, destroyed the Third Reich’s powerful business and intelligence empire across the water.'
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Now you’re an expert on Coughlin?
I don’t think Lindbergh was politically astute. I think when people become incredibly famous they sometimes are looked at as sages on every subject - especially politics. I certainly know that he was a patriotic, brave American during WWII.
I know a fair bit about him, being an actual historian who has studied the era, and he was an unpleasant bigot, an open anti-Semite, with great sympathies for the fascist politics of the era. The man was a bigot and anti-semite.
Sorry if that bothers you. Clearly I have touched a nerve, god knows why.
By your logic, I am bashing Canada by criticising Father Coughlin. Honestly, are you going to try and suggest/deny that he wasn’t anti-Semitic and pro-fascist?. The damn evidence is there.
More than you, dear. By your own admission, you know little or nothing about him. BTW, he wasn’t even American, he was a Canuck.
Most firsters weren’t, although some would have been. The American Bund was (for a modern audience) uncomfortably popular in the US, as were Nazi/Fascist politics in some section of British society.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh#.22America_First.22_involvement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh#Thoughts_on_race_and_racism
By the way, Hollywood made dozens of films about Nazi treachery in America. Hitchcock's Saboteur being one of the greatest. I've already written about the Bund associations on east 86th Street.
I don’t seek to find evil that isn’t there. And I value unbiased facts and history over family memories (inc my own).
History is what it is, good or bad. If that means Coughlin was a anti-Semitic bigot with Fascist sympathies and Lindbergh was at best a fool and at worst a Nazi sympathiser, so be it.
As to Wikipedia, wiki is valid as its a clearinghouse and holding pen for serious usually academic links to the facts, whatever the issue. All it takes for wiki-haters is to click on the links the wikipage provides.....
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