- There was no need for World War II. Adolf Hitler was
doing everything he could to come to peace terms with Britain, but
Winston Churchill would not have it. Churchill knew of the many peace
offers coming from the German government. He knew that neither Hitler
nor any other Nazi leaders wanted to fight Britain.
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- Winston Churchill wrote to Josef Stalin on January
24, 1944, to tell him that Britain was going to continue the fight to
the complete destruction of Germany no matter what. He should have
been more exact and said that Britain was going to stay in the war as
long as the United States was willing to do most of the fighting and
all of the financing. Churchill's letter read, in part:
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- We never thought of peace, not even in that year
when we were completely isolated and could have made peace without
serious detriment to the British empire, and extensively at your cost.
Why should we think of it now when victory approaches for the three of
us?1
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- What Churchill meant by "when we were completely
isolated" was the time before Russia and the United States became
involved. Churchill kept the war going for a purpose. Britain at this
time was so weak that Germany could have smashed her within a few
weeks. Had Hitler been the kind of man history says he was and had he
captured the British army at Dunkirk, which he could easily have done
and should have done, he could have written the peace ticket without
invading Britain. Churchill's worried son Randolph asked Churchill a
few days after he became the prime minister how could he expect to win
this war. Churchill replied, "I shall drag the United States
in."2
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- And so he did, and he knew he could. And how did he
do it? He could not have dragged the United States in had Franklin
Roosevelt not wanted to be dragged in, in the first place. He did it
by not giving up-that is, by not accepting the peace terms Germany was
offering. Roosevelt's great fear was that the war would be over before
America could get in. FDR wanted to go down in history as a wartime
president. Roosevelt and Churchill were in secret communication before
Churchill became prime minister. This is the reason why Tyler Kent,
who worked in the code room in the American Embassy in London
beginning in 1939, was thrown in prison as soon as Churchill took
office. Kent was sentenced not for anything criminal, but because of
what he knew. Roosevelt would not rescue this American citizen from
Churchill's clutches because Kent had proof that FDR was promising the
British leader that he would eventually come into the war. Churchill
records a conversation he and Harry Hopkins had on January 10,
1941:
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- The president is determined that we shall win the
war together. Make no mistake about it. He has sent me here to tell
you that at all costs and by all means he will carry you through, no
matter what happens to him. There is nothing that he will not do, so
far as he has human power.3
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- Churchill became prime minister on May 10, 1941.
When the Germans captured Poland, they found in the Polish archives
the evidence about the part FDR played in getting the fuse of World
War II lit. These Polish records were transported to Berlin for
safekeeping, and when Germany fell to the Allies, they were shipped to
Washington, where they were kept under lock and key for about 20 years
so that no one could see them.
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- David Irving reports in Hitler's War what these
documents say:
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- A different aspect of Roosevelt's policy was
revealed by the Polish documents ransacked by the Nazis from the
archives of the ruined foreign ministry buildings in Warsaw. The
dispatches of the Polish ambassadors in Washington and Paris laid bare
Roosevelt's efforts to goad France and Britain into war with Germany
while he rearmed the United States and psychologically prepared the
American public for war. . . . n spring of 1939, [Ambassador William
C.] Bullitt quoted Roosevelt as being determined "not to participate
in the war from the start, but to be in at the finish." . . . The
Warsaw document left little doubt as to what had stiffened Polish
resistance during the August 1939 crisis.
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- Irving quotes Baron von Weizaecker as saying that
Hitler "had set his heart on peace" and Hitler as saying "The survival
of the British empire is in Germany's interest too." Hitler "felt he
had repeatedly extended the hand of peace and friendship to the
British, and each time they had blackened his eye in reply."4
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- Prof. G.C. Tansill's Back Door to War, Chap. XXIII,
states that it was Roosevelt, above all others, who was working
unceasingly for war. Tansill cites evidence to show that Roosevelt was
using every channel at his disposal to encourage Chamberlain to go to
war with Germany. Roosevelt was telling Britain and France that he
would come to their aid at once should they go to war against the
Germans. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy was repeatedly telling
Chamberlain that America would rush to the assistance of Britain and
France in the event of unprovoked aggression, and Bullitt was
encouraging France to believe the same thing.5
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- Likewise Eleanor Roosevelt reveals that her husband
was not surprised nor upset, although he allowed the public to draw
the impression that he was, with the attack on Pearl Harbor. The
disaster at Pearl "was a great fulfillment" as far as Roosevelt's
worry over the matter was involved, and Mrs. Roosevelt "tells us that
he was more 'serene' than he had been for a long time."6
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- Hitler's mistake in not capturing Britain right away
was based on his belief that he was in contact with a strong peace
movement in England. The peace movement was controlled by Churchill,
but Hitler did not know this. All the German letters and messages sent
to the peace movement were intercepted by the British government.
Rudolf Hess was invited to come to Britain by this fake peace movement
to discuss and make plans for peace. The sole purpose for this
deception of the Germans was to delay the end of the war with Germany
until the United States could involve itself.
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- The peace offer Hitler had in mind, if Britain would
assume a neutral position, was such an astounding offer that Herbert
Hoover, when he was told of Hitler's terms from Ambassador Kennedy,
gasped: "Why didn't the British accept?" "Nothing but Churchill's
bullheadedness," replied Kennedy.7 Kennedy's statement was enough to
condemn Churchill as a war criminal.
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- At the height of Hitler's power, the German
chancellor offered to withdraw from France, Denmark and Norway.8 He
proposed to roll back his army without a shot being fired. He would
make peace with England even if England would not agree to return the
German colonies, which Britain had taken from Germany at the end of
World War I.9
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- Hitler did not want war. He was so against war that
he said it would not do Germany any good, even if Germany won the war,
as war would put an end to all his plans. "Hitler was not thinking of
war," Albert Forster, 36-year-old district leader of Danzig, told
Churchill, as "the Führer's immense social and cultural plans would
take years to fulfill."10
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- Hitler expressed this opinion: "A European war would
be the end of all our efforts even if we should win, because the
disappearance of the British empire would be a misfortune which could
not be made up again."11 He told the Dutch fascist leader Anton
Mussert: "We have not the slightest reason to fight Britain. Even if
we win, we gain nothing."12 Hitler was such an admirer of the British
empire that he offered to defend the empire anywhere in the world with
German troops should Britain ever need them.13
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- Hitler did not want to take over the world. This
idea is British propaganda. Churchill and Roosevelt wanted war, and
they forced it on Germany. Hitler did all he could to be friendly with
Britain and France.
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- The duke of Windsor thought, in July 1940, that the
war was allowed to go on only because certain British politicians and
statesmen-if they can be called anything that sounds so dignified-had
to have a reason to save their faces, even if this meant that the
British empire would be bankrupted and shattered.14
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- Churchill and Roosevelt knew what was going on.
Churchill bragged that "War is a game that has to be played with a
smiling face."15 Surely, they must have thought the tricks they were
playing on their own countries and the world as something funny. But
at the same time, millions of British and American soldiers and
civilians were persuaded to look upon this war as something serious.
They had no choice.
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- Misleading the public is truly the mark of a cynical
politician and the dishonest news media, in time of war as well as at
other times. These two men, Roosevelt and Churchill, instead of saving
the world from some great evil, as Tom Brokaw maintains, multiplied
the evils the world had to face.
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- One of the meanest tricks Churchill played on the
Ger mans was the trick he played on Hess. On May 10, 1941, Hitler's
right-hand man flew alone to the duke of Hamilton's estate in
Scotland. He expected to land at an airfield nearby. But when he got
there, he could not find the airfield and had to bail out. Not knowing
how to do this, he had great trouble getting out of the plane.
Finally, he turned the plane over and fell out. It was Hess's first
time to use a parachute. Hess was expecting to be received with
dignity. Instead, he was seized, thrown into prison and held
incommunicado the rest of his life. He was charged with "crimes
against peace" at Nuremberg and sentenced to life imprisonment. The
last 20 years of his life, he was held in solitary confinement and not
allowed to see his wife or son. Hess was given the heaviest sentence
possible-a sentence worse than death.
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- Hess's flight to Britain was done in the hope that
he could convince the British government to make peace with Germany.
Because of Hess's efforts to bring peace to Europe, he became truly a
"prisoner of peace."
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- The old saw, "All's fair in war," can never be
applied to Hess. The treatment he received from the Allies from May
10, 1941, until the day he died was a crime.16 Hess would not have
made his flight to Britain had not he and Hitler, in their anxiousness
for peace, been fooled into believing that they were in contact with a
strong peace party in Britain. There had been a strong peace party in
Britain at one time, but most of its members had been thrown in jail
by Churchill's administration, and the rest could not express
themselves.
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- Churchill had, so he told his secretary in a
discussion about British aid to Russia, "only one purpose: the
destruction of Hitler. And my life is much simplified
thereby."17
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- It would have been much easier and less costly in
lives and materials, not only for the British but also for the Germans
and Americans, to have encouraged the Germans to eliminate Hitler
instead of trying to eliminate both the Germans and Hitler.
"Unconditional surrender" sounds melodic, inspiring and dramatic. But
this is all the value it had. It led the people in the Allied nations
to think the Germans would never give up until they were totally
demolished. It prolonged the war and made it even more bitter.
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- There is a hint that Hitler would have volunteered
to retire had his retirement meant that Britain would have assumed a
friendly attitude toward Germany. "Days before the beer hall bomb
[Munich, November 8, 1939] there was a hint that [Hitler] was prepared
to go very far, indeed. Ger man Prince Max Hohenlohe had spoken in
Switzerland with representatives of Vansittart, secretary of the
British Foreign Office, returning to Germany to report to Göring that
peace with England was possible, but only with Hitler and Ribbentrop
removed from power. One observer recorded in his diary that Göring
replied that Hitler would agree to this."18
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- Mary Ball Martinez's Pope Pius XII During the Second
World War states:
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- To their astonishment, the four Jesuit historians
came upon records documenting the personal involvement of Pius XII in
a plot to overthrow Hitler. In January 1940, he was approached by the
agent of a certain clique of German generals, who asked him to tell
the British government that they would undertake to "remove" Hitler if
they were given assurances that the British would come to terms with a
moderate German regime. Pius XII promptly passed along this message to
Sir D'Arcy Osborne, Britain's envoy to the Holy See. The offer was
turned down.19
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- However, on a number of occasions the Germans had
offered to remove Hitler from power if they were given reasonable
peace terms for doing so. Joseph E. Davies, at a town hall meeting in
Los Angeles, January 20, 1943, disclosed that the Germans had offered
to retire Hitler in 1940 if the British would make peace with
Germany.20 If the Germans could get rid of Hitler anytime they
desired, then Hitler's "total dictatorial control" over Germany was
not so total and not so dictatorial as believers in the war propaganda
think, and the Germans were not his robotic slaves.
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- Hans Kohn reviewed John Scott's Duel for Europe in
the December 14, 1942 New Republic (799). He stated, "If Britain had
wished to make peace with Ger many, she could have done it easily in
1939, in the summer of 1940, and again in the spring of 1941." It was
not Hitler and Germany who could be described accurately as the war
maniacs. The war maniacs were Roosevelt and Churchill and their
backers, such as Bernard Baruch and Samuel Untermeyer.
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- One of the reasons used to justify the destruction
of the Nazi system was that Hitler was a dictator. It was assumed that
the Germans could not get rid of him. But why should the happiest
people in the world, as David Lloyd George spoke of the Germans after
Hitler came to power, want to dispose of their leader? The
"unconditional surrender" declaration should dispel all thought about
Hitler being in absolute command of everything in Germany. It was not
the Germans who were forcing Hitler upon themselves. Roosevelt and
Churchill were doing it for them, and for the sole purpose of keeping
the war going as long as possible.
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- How did Hitler become the German leader? British
history professor A.J.P. Taylor gives the answer in The Origins of the
Second World War:
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- Hitler was appointed chancellor by President
Hindenburg in a strictly constitutional way and for solidly democratic
reasons.21
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- Conservative politicians led by Papen . . .
recommended him to Hindenburg [and] kept the key posts for
themselves.22
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- He did not "seize" power. He waited for it to be
thrust upon him by the men who had previously tried to keep him out.
In January 1933, Papen and Hindenburg were imploring him to become
chancellor, and he graciously consented.23
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- Germany never threatened Britain. Hitler had always
wanted to be a good neighbor and a good friend to the British. As late
as January 29, 1942, after Britain had been at war with Germany for
two years and five months, Hitler expressed a desire to help the
British by sending them 20 divisions to aid them in throwing the
Japanese invaders out of Singapore.24 He bent over backwards in
showing his earnestness and generosity. He never would have gone to
war against the British if the British had not attacked Ger many, or,
as Churchill blazoned, "We entered the war of our free will, without
ourselves being directly assaulted."25
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- Churchill was not elected-as Hitler was in
Germany-to be the prime minister by the British people. Churchill was
put in power by the "powers behind the scenes" for the sole purpose of
keeping the war going. Churchill's job was not to make peace but to
make war.
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- In August 1941, Roosevelt and Churchill
hypocritically said in the third point of the Atlantic Charter that
they respected "the right of all peoples to choose the form of
government under which they will live." Unless the words "all peoples"
do not mean what they say, then this article clearly applies as much
to the Germans as to anyone else.
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- As soon as the tide of battle began to favor the
British empire, Churchill threw off the pretended cloak of
righteousness and became openly arrogant. He said in Parliament on
September 2, 1943:
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- The twin roots of all our evils, Nazi tyranny and
Prussian militarism, must be extirpated. Until this is achieved, there
are no sacrifices we will not make and no lengths in violence to which
we will not go.26
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- Of this Nazi tyranny and Churchill's eager desire to
get rid of it, it should be pointed out that the Germans were not
oppressing the British people and if the Germans wanted to live under
their "tyrannical" form of government, it was none of Britain's
business. The Atlantic Charter gave the Germans this right. Churchill
did not object to Soviet tyranny, for he hailed Russia as a welcome
ally when she came into the war.
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- So it turns out the democracies were at war with Ger
many to force Germany to set up a democratic form of government, even
though Hitler had been democratically elected and Churchill had
not.
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- The sixth point in the Atlantic Charter called for
the "destruction of Nazi tyranny" only and no other tyranny. There
fore, according to the charter, other tyrannies could live, thrive and
be supported. It may be noted that the sixth point contradicts the
third point. The sixth point was the same as a "secret" declaration of
war against Germany. There fore, the United States was really in the
war against Germany long before Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Hitler's
declaration of war against the United States was made to keep his
promise to Japan and to set things straight in the world as they
really were. This declaration made it legal for the German navy to
shoot back at the American ships in the Atlantic.
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- Roosevelt ordered, in April 1941, American warships
to seek out and follow German ships and to radio their locations every
four hours so British warships could come and open an attack.
Roosevelt commanded American warships to "shoot on sight" at German
submarines on September 11, 1941.27
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- Adm. Stark, chief of naval operations, wrote Adm.
Hart on November 7, 1941: "The Navy is already in the War of the
Atlantic, but the country doesn't seem to realize it. Apathy, to the
opposition, is evident in a considerable section of the press. Whether
the country knows it or not, we are at war."28
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- All this was in flagrant defiance of Roosevelt's
promise to Americans that we would not enter any war unless we were
attacked. These orders made America an aggressor nation. American
leaders, with their pretended righteousness, failed in their efforts
to be the first "victims," but this did not prevent them from
pretending to be, and the nation from believing they were. American
leaders were the victimizers, in many ways.
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- The war in the Pacific was also kept going much
longer than necessary. Before the Germans were allowed to "surrender"
and before the atom bombs were dropped, the Japanese were asking for
peace. Gen. Douglas McArthur recommended negotiations on the basis of
the Japanese overtures. But FDR brushed off this suggestion with the
remark: "McArthur is our greatest general and our poorest
politician."29 This is the answer in a nutshell to why the war was
allowed to go on and on, when it could have been over any day from
1943 on. It did not even have to have started in the first place,
except that FDR wanted it to start.
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- Clare Booth Luce said at the Republican Party
Convention in 1944 that Roosevelt "lied us into the war." To get
America into the war, FDR provoked the Japanese to attack. At the same
time, American boys were battling to end World War II, leading
American politicians were doing all they could for political reasons
to continue the conflict.
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- President Harry Truman, in early May 1945, informed
Herbert Hoover "of the extensive Japanese peace offers and admitted
then that further fighting with the Japanese was really unnecessary.
But Truman also disclosed to Hoover that he did not feel strong enough
to challenge Secretary Stimson and the Pentagon."
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- FOOTNOTES:
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- 1 Walendy, Udo, The Methods of Reeducation,
3.
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- 2 Kilzer, Louis C., Churchill's Deception,
20.
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- 3 Churchill, Winston, The Grand Alliance, 23.
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- 4 Irving, David, Hitler's War, 35.
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- 5 Tansill, G.C., Back Door to War, 450-51.
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- 6 Crocker, George Crocker, Roosevelt's Road to
Russia, 81.
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- 7 Irving, ibid., 418.
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- 8 Kilzer, ibid., 69-70.
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- 9 Kilzer, ibid., 221.
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- 10 Irving, ibid., 121.
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- 11 McLaughlin, Michael, For Those Who Cannot Speak,
10.
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- 12 Irving, ibid., 511.
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- 13 Barnes, Harry Elmer, Perpetual War for Perpetual
Peace, 162; and Irving, ibid., 371.
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- 14 Irving, ibid., xvi.
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- 15 Walendy, ibid., 3.
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- 16 The Barnes Review, July/August 2001.
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- 17 Churchill, ibid., 370.
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- 18 Kilzer, ibid., 183.
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- 19 Journal of Historical Review, Sept./Oct. 1993,
27.
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- 20 Leese, Arnold, The Jewish War of Survival,
20.
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- 21 Ibid., 97.
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- 22 Ibid., 79.
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- 23 Ibid., 101
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- 24 Irving, ibid., 371.
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- 25 Martin, James J., The Saga of Hog Island,
42.
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- 26 Grenfell, Capt. Russell, Unconditional Hatred,
92.
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- 27 Barnes, ibid., 487.
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- 28 Tansill, ibid., 645.
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- 29 Chamberlin, William Henry, America's Second
Crusade, 219.
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