On Roosevelt and Churchill
(Letter as submitted to the Holland Sentinel, 29 May 1985)
To the Editor:
The Readertorial of May 17, 1985, "Roosevelt and Churchill felt they achieved all they could" expresses a personal opinion, but since it is laced with disinformation, I feel obliged, pro bono publico, to be a witness to the truth, without entering into a discussion with the writer of that Readertorial.
A British coloned wrote to me in a recent letter: "... real traitors Churchill and Roosevelt, who should have been tried as war criminals...."
The British newspaper The Free Nation, February / March 1985, under the title "Poland's Betrayal recalled by Bernard Smith on 40th anniversary of Yalta," printed the following: " ... after Teheran, Churchill told General Anders, leader of the Polish army-in-exile: 'You should trust Great Britain, who will never abandon you — never ... be confident, we will not desert you and Poland will be happy.'"
That coincides with what Roosevelt wrote in 1944: "... The Government of the United States is, most determinedly, in favor of a strong Polish state, free, independent, and conscious of the rights of the Polish people, to run its internal politics as it sees fit, without any outside interference."
How did Roosevelt intend to achieve that? In 1940 he made the following remark: "... I think that if I give [Stalin] everything I possibly can and ask nothing from him in return, noblesse oblige, he won't try to annex anything and will work with me for a world of democracy and peace."
That, of course, again coincides with his statement that "some of my best friends are communists."
In Yalta (1945), Roosevelt was described in The Marshall Cavendish Illustrated Encyclopedia of World War II as follows: "[Roosevelt], now a very sick man, unwittingly allowed himself to be used as Stalin's pawn in destroying the strength of the Western alliance."
But Yalta was only the last act in the drama, as everything that happened there had already been settled between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin in Teheran (1943).
Quotations from the documentary book The Great Powers and Poland by Jan Karski (Professor of Political Science at Georgetown University):
There is no evidence that either the British or the Americans intervened in Moscow on Poland's behalf in 1941. [p. 453]
None among the Polish statesmen realized that, behind the walls of diplomatic secrecy, both the Atlantic Charter and the official policies on territorial questions had been abandoned. [p. 465]
In 1943, a document entitled "Russia's Position" stated: "Russia's postwar position in Europe will be a dominant one." [p. 473]
The document's political implications were extraordinary: "Every effort" should be made to obtain the "friendship" of the Soviet government because Russia was to "dominate Europe." That "domination" was not to be challenged. [p. 474]
The Readertorial in question stated that "Roosevelt and Churchill asked the advice of the Polish government in exile." According to The Marshall Cavendish Encyclopedia, Churchill confided to Lord Moran (his physician) on the subject of forcing Mikolajczyk to agree with Russia according to the Roosevelt / Churchill plan: "I was pretty rough with Mikolajczyk.... He was obstinate and I lost my temper," and later again, "I shook my fist at him and lost my temper." Churchill's own words sound very different from "asking advice"! Mikolajczyk resigned from his position as Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile and, under pressure of the Allies, joined the Lublin Government, making it possible for America and England to recognize the communist Lublin regime of Poland and to withdraw recognition from the legal Polish Government. This action of Mikolajczyk was treason. An interesting fact: In 1955, the IRS claimed from Mikolajczyk $40,000 in taxes. Was this tax on the Judas money obtained by him from "secret" sources for being an obedient servant of Roosevelt and Churchill?
The Readertorial in question ends with the very questionable statement of "understanding" for Russia, which had lost 20 million people during the war. The figure is correct, but there is the very strong possibility that Hitler would not have started the war with Poland if he had not had the Ribbentrop-Molotov agreement which secured Germany, as it assured cooperation and alliance with Russia. Also, in Point Blanc, September 1971, page 14, the "total kill-count of the Communist World Peace Crusade" is shown as 113,551,250 plus. There is no justification, not from the moral or the ethical point of view, to "understand" the commitment of 130 million East Europeans into communist slavery because of the Russian war losses.
There was a devilish method in Roosevelt's and Churchill's policy, and here reference is made to General Patton's diary, where he raged at General Eisenhower's order that his 3rd Army, having taken Prague, surrender it to the Soviets and pull back some 60 miles. Within weeks after the end of World War II, the Kremlin was given Prague, Vienna, and Berlin. General Patton bitterly complained in his diary: "We could have saved a great deal... and prevented what I believe historians will consider a horrible crime."
After the war, General Eisenhower had thousands of Russians, who had fought communism, loaded into locked cattle cars and sent them back to Russia to be executed. I have personally witnessed that loading, and the book The Politician by Robert Welch also refers to it. [Webmaster's note: This infamy had the official codename "Operation Keelhaul."]
On September 2, 1944, the U.S. Secretary of the Navy, James V. Forrestal, noted in his diary: "I find that whenever any American suggests that we act in accordance with the needs of our own security he is apt to be called a god-damned fascist or imperialist, while if Uncle Joe suggests that he needs the Baltic Provinces, half Poland, all Bessarabia and access to the Mediterranean, all hands agree that he is a fine, frank, candid, and generally delightful fellow who is very easy to deal with because he is so explicit in what he wants."
An AP dispatch from Moscow (reprinted in the Grand Rapids Press on April 12, 1985) states: "The Soviets have long included Roosevelt in the group of foreign statesmen deserving of praise, and cited him as an example of how U.S. presidents should treat the Soviet Union." No wonder that the "War hero Roosevelt" (as described in the Readertorial in question) was so warmly praised in the Soviet official news agency Tass on the 40-year anniversary of his death as "statesman of world caliber" and "a convinced champion of cooperation with the Soviet Union."
Today's problems with Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Cuba, Nicaragua, and others, are a direct consequence of Roosevelt's "illustrious" agreements in Teheran and Yalta, which opened to the Soviet Union the door to West Europe, and which now permit the Soviets to encircle America from the south.
How bitterly true is what General Patton confided to his diary: "Peace is going to be hell!"
Brig. Gen. Waclaw Bakierowski, V.M., P.R.
Minister of Foreign Affairs [Polish Government in Exile]