The Rebuttal: Defending 'American Betrayal' From the Book-Burners (23 page)

“During these
years in London, he reassured Joseph Stalin that Britain had no interest in
signing a separate peace with Germany while pressuring Britain to open a
“second front” against the Germans in northern France.
^[5]
He
maintained close contact with Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden and personally
visited the Foreign Office every day to get the latest news.
^[*]

Is
it not clearer now that the invasion of the continent through France rather
than Italy, and the rejection of peace overtures from Germany were done for the
sake of Soviet interests and in an implicit surrender of Eastern Europe to
Stalin?

Ms.
West summarized the saboteurs’ work and the damage it has wrought in
these
words
:

“They appear to
have successfully thwarted multiple attempts by anti-Nazi, anti-Communist
Germans to gain US assistance that might have helped them overthrow Hitler,
surrender German armies to US and British forces in exchange for unspecified
assistance in keeping the Red Army out of eastern and central Europe — a
mission we spent the next four decades fighting to achieve from beleaguered bases
in Western Europe. This might have brought World War II to a close much earlier
than 1945. In other words, there was a chance not taken due to Communist
penetration of the policy-making chain in Washington and London that might have
saved millions, even tens of millions of lives. It is the story of these German
Underground efforts that I discuss in Chapter 10, and the obstacles they faced
in both Washington and London, where pro-Soviet influence — and Soviet
influence operators and agents — were able to keep these anti-Nazi,
anti-Communists at bay.”

West
explains, correctly, as anyone who lived in an Iron Curtain Soviet satellite
country knows, that Stalin’s goal was to take Europe. I have to modify that,
for this had been the original Soviet goal since the days when Stalin was still
a semi-anonymous commie commissar. The Bolsheviks had already attempted to
conquer Europe once when they attacked the newly independent Polish Republic in
1919 -1921. Their plan was to flatten Poland and push on to Germany and beyond.

After
a series of bloody battles, the decisive one was fought in August 13-25, 1920
in the environs of Warsaw. The Polish Army beat back the Soviets, and from then
on the tide would turn against the invaders. The implications of the Polish
victory for all of Europe was such that the British diplomat Edgar Vincent
D’Abernon wrote a book with the title The eighteenth decisive battle of the
world: Warsaw, 1920.

In
his
September
22, 1920 speech
at the IX Conference of the Russian Communist
Party, Lenin stated that “the centre of world imperialism’s entire system lies
very close to [Warsaw].” By attacking it, though unsuccessfully, the USSR had
been able to roil the working classes of Germany and Britain, he said, and had
“a powerful effect on the revolutionary movement in Europe.” Lenin boasted that
the attack on Poland was particularly successful in Great Britain, where it
raised the proletariat to “an unprecedented level, to an absolutely new stage
in the revolution.”

Lenin
concluded with the words, “If we close our ranks and bend every effort, we
shall win the victory.” Indeed, the ranks would be closed, the ears of
Roosevelt and Churchill would be bent accordingly, and the Soviets won the
victory — in 1943. Is this not just one of the issues wrathful avengers
of “the truth” should chew on in quiet contemplation instead of excoriating
Diana West on account that it was not Bupkin who said something to Zupkin but
Zupkin who said it to Bupkin?

Schnapps

As
I put the finishing touches on this on Sept 11, we, the happy few, celebrate
the 330th anniversary of the Battle of Vienna. By the way, here is a subject
for a great PhD dissertation in Education, Sociology, Contemporary History or
Islamic Studies: Are high schools in the West (i.e. anywhere from Germany going
west all the way to New Zealand) still teaching about Vienna 1683, and if so, what
is it they are teaching? Hypothesis to be disproved: they are not teaching it,
those that do teach it do so from the Turks’ point of view, and this tendency
has a statistically significant correlation with each country’s weighted
quotient of officially sanctioned Cultural Marxism.

Now,
what do you think the chances are that such a dissertation would be approved,
even if pared down to a more manageable single country, say Germany, or even a
single zone in that country, say Lower Saxony? Academia is the very hatchery of
Cultural Marxism; its desire to allow a critical investigation of its main
raison d’être is very small.

By
the way, since the term “Cultural Marxism” is flung about prodigiously,
anchoring it to a definition is useful. As good as any is
this one
in David
Horowitz’s invaluable DiscovertheNetworks guide to the Political Left. Which
brings me to the sad issue of David Horowitz’s infantry and PJ Media’s dragoons
and Gatestone Institute’s artillery firing on their own troops on the
Anti-Islamization front. Particularly Horowitz, as so much of what he does is
so good and important.

It’s
another battle involving the Austrians and the Turks that’s relevant here: the
Battle of Karansebes, whose 225
^th
anniversary will be on September
17.

The
instigator was Austria’s Emperor Joseph II (the full list of his domains and
titles is too long). Joseph II — Mozart’s patron and Marie Antoinette’s
brother — was a decent but not very bright man who hatched various
liberty-promoting ideas but lacked the competence to implement them. Among
those was his initiative to rid the Balkans of the cruel Turk occupier.

Joseph
II personally led a large imperial army deep into Turkish-occupied territory,
even though he had no knowledge of the military craft and had no bench of
competent generals. The full tale of woes is too long for our purpose here, but
let it suffice that when Joseph II finally parked his quarter-million troops
and a corresponding number of horses and artillery pieces, to prepare for an
engagement, it was in a swampy area by the Danube River near the town of
Karansebes (present day Romania) that he parked them. Again, we shall skip the
intervening troubles such as (by some reckoning) over 150,000 soldiers falling
ill with malaria and dysentery, overstretched supply lines and so on.

On
the fateful day, a scout unit of the Austrian hussars crossed the river to look
for signs of an incoming Turkish army. They found no Turks but did find Gypsies
who had schnapps for sale. The opportunity was too good to pass up.

When
an infantry unit showed up much later looking for the hussars, they found their
comrades drunk and happy. Naturally, the foot soldiers wanted some of the good
stuff too. The problem was that by then the schnapps was running low. Arguments
broke out that soon evolved into a shooting skirmish. It was pitch dark, with
perhaps a Gypsy bonfire for illumination.

Then
some foot soldier had the clever idea to shout “The Turks!” “The Turks!” so
that the other guys would flee and he and his buddies would enjoy the remaining
schnapps all to themselves. Unfortunately, a general panic ensued.

Austrian
officers seeing this started shouting “Halt,” Halt,” but this was a truly multicultural
army, and units of Hungarians, Slavs and Italians didn’t know German very well.
So the soldiers thought they were hearing “Allah!” “Allah!” and rode and ran
harder back toward the main camp. By then, the camp was waking to thundering
hooves, shots, screams of “Allah” and “The Turks are coming!” The encamped
units started firing on their own who were trying to re-enter the camp. Then
the horses and cattle got so frightened they smashed their enclosures and fled
by the tens of thousands, augmenting the aural impression of a large number of
Allah’s cavalry attacking.

General
pandemonium ensued. What was supposed to be a battle of the Austrians against
the Turks, ended up with the Austrian Army fighting itself and retreating from
a foe that wasn’t there. When the Turks arrived two days later, they found
10,000 dead and wounded Austrian soldiers amidst the smoldering ruins of what
had been the Great Austrian Imperial Army’s camp.

Somewhere
between the map coordinates of FrontPage Magazine, National Review Online, PJ
Media, American Thinker, formally neoconservative magazines who may chime in on
this (e.g. Commentary, The Weekly Standard) Gatestone Institute, the Republican
National Committee et al. there lies the Karansebes encampment. Drunk with the
schnapps of power, they see imaginary foes, retreat where they should regroup
and attack, and when they attack, it’s their own they attack.

The
GOP by now rides to battle under a standard with a caption it’s not even bright
enough to read: “Republicans. They thirst for death.” The others do good work
in the narrow areas they picked for their activism but act as though theirs
were the only sectors under assault. They fire on soldiers on their own side
who defend different sectors of the perimeter. Unfortunately, critical sectors
through which the Turks are already pouring in, such as Open Borders,
Immigration, “Civil Rights,” “White Privilege,” White Cowardice, Affirmative
Action, United Nations and more.

Diana
West is one more of the ablest soldiers shot by her own. There will be more.
Until it may dawn on someone that the Turks are, in fact, coming. They are
here.

Notes:

1.
  
The
JBS is still at it, e.g.
here
.

2.
  
See, inter alia:

·
      
John H. Rousselot, “Civil Rights:
Communist Betrayal of a Good Cause,” American Opinion, February 1964.

·
      
The John Birch Society,
“What’s
Wrong With Civil Rights?”

3.
  
Samuel Francis,
“Neocon
Invasion,”
The New American, August 5, 1996

4.
  
Paul Gottfried,
“On
Neoconservatism
”
, Modern Age, Winter 1983.
Neoconservatism is by now no longer a primarily Jewish phenomenon but
practically the only form of conservatism still abroad and allowed to show up
in America.

5.
  
I know that this point is covered
in American Betrayal.

6.
  
These are by no means uncontested
statements. For instance, Maisky in his memoirs (Memoirs of a Soviet
Ambassador, The War: 1939-43) states that his plane took off from Gibraltar on
July 4th at noon; Sikorski’s took off at 11 PM. This author is unaware of any
books published by British authors that presents any but the official version
of the events, but contrary references in the Polish language are innumerable:
books, articles, documentary and
feature
films, as Sikorski’s murder was one of the most tragic events in Polish
history. Skirting the more arcane theories, I relied mainly on Gibraltar ’43,
one of the three books by the Polish historian Tadeusz Kisielewski dealing with
this topic. The Polish Wikipedia entry entitled
“Aviation
catastrophe in Gibraltar, July 4, 1943”
presents a
version of events fairly close to mine here, with a bibliography.

7.
  
Such an assertion was made in
detail in Gregory Douglas’s Gestapo Chief: The 1948 Interrogation of Heinrich
Muller, Vol. 3: From Secret U. S. Intelligence Files. It is based on Kim
Philby’s alleged personal account to Gestapo Chief Heinrich Müller and on other
Müller materials from the late 1940s and 50s. However, outside of that book, no
recognized, credible source has confirmed that the Gestapo chief was seen, let
alone alive, after his 1945 disappearance; until one does, a question mark must
hang over this source.

8.
  
The French Sovietologist and
specialist in USSR-Poland relations Alexandra Viatteau also supports (in her
books and
here
)
the “Philby done it” theory but asserts that the operation was conceived and
executed solely by Moscow.

Takuan Seiyo is a
European-born American writer living in exile in Japan. For his previous
essays, see the
Takuan
Seiyo Archives
.

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Diana West: Swimming Against the Mainstream

By Cindy Simpson

FamilySecurityMatters.org

September 11, 2013

"The most obvious, important realities are often the
ones that are hardest to see and talk about."

That was the wisdom offered by award-winning novelist David
Foster Wallace to the Kenyon College class of 2005, after he opened his
memorable commencement
address
with this
"didactic little parable-ish story":

There are these two young fish swimming along and they
happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says
"Morning, boys. How's the water?"  And the two young fish swim
on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes
"What the hell is water?"