by Jonas E. Alexis,The Unz Review:
Mark Dankof is the former 36th District Chairman of the Republican Party in King County/Seattle. He was an elected delegate to Texas State Republican Conventions in 1994 and 1996 and entered the United States Senate race in Delaware in 2000 as the nominated candidate of the Constitution Party against Democratic candidate Thomas Carper and Republican incumbent William Roth.
JEA:The attack on Pearl Harbor stands as a catastrophic moment in American history and has prompted sustained historical analysis ever since. Numerous competent historians have examined the event and its broader implications. Among them, Thomas Fleming has offered a comparatively balanced assessment of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the developments leading up to the United States’ entry into World War II.[1]Fleming documents that Roosevelt deliberately misled the American public in order to secure U.S. entry into a military conflict with Japan.
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Fleming acknowledges the role of Harry Dexter White—an influential Treasury official later implicated in Soviet espionage—in shaping Roosevelt administration policy. Yet Fleming stops short of exploring that White was Jewish and how White’s communist ideology may have contributed to a hardline posture toward Japan during the war. It is possible that Fleming was unaware of White’s Jewish background, although, as will be shown in Part Two of this series, Fleming did acknowledge the considerable influence exercised in Washington by Jewish ideologues such as Morgenthau.
John Koster’sOperation Snow: How a Soviet Mole in FDR’s White House Triggered Pearl Harborexamines in detail the role of Harry Dexter White, arguing that White exerted a decisive influence on U.S. policy that contributed to America’s entry into war with Japan.[2]M. Stanton Evans’sStalin’s Secret Agents: The Subversion of Roosevelt’s Governmentalso presents a detailed account of what Evans describes as extensive Soviet infiltration within the federal government during the Roosevelt administration[3]Robert Stinnett’sDay of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harborprovides an additional perspective on this significant historical issue.[4]Stinnett does not address Harry Dexter White’s covert activities within the Roosevelt administration. When I contacted him regarding this omission, he responded by stating that:
“Day of Deceitconcerns the United States Navy and its success in breaking the Imperial Japanese Naval military codes of Japan in 1941. My principal source is National Archives and Record Group 38, ‘The Crane Files’ at Archives II, College Park, Maryland, plus extensive interviews with the US Naval military code breakers including the Traffic Chief of Station ‘H’ located on Oahu, Territory of Hawaii. I am the only author of Pearl Harbor non-fiction books who conducted interviews with the USN military code breakers. The momentous records of the Crane Files, plus my interviews with USN cryptos did not disclose any information on Mr. White or Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau. I am aware of Mr. White and his association with the Civil War in China and Mr. Morgenthau as a member of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Cabinet. As far as I can determine, neither White or Morgenthau were cleared for the Military Top Secret information involving Japan and were not engaged in military cryptology.”[5]
Stinnett’s position on this matter is, to a degree, understandable. Nevertheless, this omission may represent a significant limitation inDay of Deceit. In my view, any analysis of the conflict between Japan and the United States during World War II that fails to address Harry Dexter White’s role risks leaving out a crucial explanatory dimension. To overlook White’s influence is akin to producing an extended study of the Second World War while giving little or no attention to Nazi Germany. In any case, this remains a complex and multi-layered historical problem, and I would welcome your perspective on how best to situate White’s activities within the broader narrative. You were, after all, the one who encouraged me to readOperation Snowa few years ago, and I would be interested to hear how you now assess its significance in light of the wider historiography. Some historians, including Samuel Eliot Morison, characterized the attack on Pearl Harbor as a strategic “surprise.”[6]Explain these complex phenomena and analyze the reasons some scholars have characterized Franklin D. Roosevelt as politically duplicitous.
Source: SGT Report
