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Imperialism in 1891, cd. T. Greene' (Lexington: Heath,
1955, pp. 21-26.
( 30 ) R. F. Sm i t h, p • 24 6 •
(31)Parker T. Moon, quoted in Hagel, p. 1.
(32)Flynn, pp. 162 and 213. It is important to
be a r i n min d t hat 0 r wei I 's 1984 wa s wr itt en in 1948
and that h.is original title was actually "1948." As
James Martin explains, "Orwell was not writing science
fiction but describing what was already fully developed
in 1948." '" Defense' Origins of the New Imperialism."
Revisionist Viewpoints (Colorado Springs: Ralph
Myles, 1971), p. 6 fn.
(33 )Quoted in Percy Greaves, "FOR's Wa'tergate:
Pearl Harbor," Reason (February 1976), p. 20.
(34)The landmark book on this interpretation is
Barnes, Perpetual War, Ope ci t. Also see Tansill,
e s p e cia I I Y c hap t e r XXV, 11 Ro 0 s eveItSe e ksaPretext for
War wit h Ge r man y ," and Chapter XXV I, " J a pan I s Ma ne uveredin
t 0 Fir i ng the Firs t Shot a t Pea r I Harb0 r • " The
best pre sen tat ion 0 f the even t s i rnm e d i ate I y pre c e eding
and surrounding the attack on Pearl Harbor is
T he 0 bald t s "The F ina I Secret of Pear I Harb 0 r , 11 0 p. cit.
Also very good are Bruce Bartlett, "The Pearl Harbor
Cover-Up," Percy Greaves, "FOR's Watergate: Pearl
Harb 0 r ," and Ga r y Nor t h, 11 Wo rid Wa r I I· rev i s ion ism and
Vie t n am, n a IIi n Reason ( Feb r ua r y 19 7 6 ) • Ro 0 s eveItt s
duplicitous foreign policy is admitted even by his
admirers. Thomas Bailey, The Man in the Street (New
Yo r k: 1 9 4 8 ), f ran k I Y a d mit s t hat "Fran k lin Ro 0 s eve 1 t
repeat e d I y dec e i vedt h eArn e ric a n P eo pie d ur i n g the
period before Pearl Harbor." Bailey likens this to
"the physician who must tell the patient lies for the
pat i e nt' sown good. • •The coun try wa s 0 ve rwhelm i ng I Y
non-interventionist to the very day of Pearl Harbor,
and an over t attempt to lead the people into war would
have resulted in certain failure and almost certain
o u s tin g 0 f Ro 0 s eve I tin 19 40, wit h conseq uen t de f eat 0 f
his ultimate aims."
(35)See Robert Bresler, The Ideology of the
E x e cut i veState (Men loPark, ea I .: Ins tit ute for Huma n
Studies, 1973), pp. 2-4; also see Murray Rothbard, For
A New Liberty (New York: Macmillan, 1973), p. 287.
(36)Arthur Schlesinger, The Imperial Presidency
(New York: Popular Library, 1973), p. 183.
( 3 7 ) B res I e r, p. 6. On the dome s tic aut h 0 r itarian
dynamic created by a foreign policy of imperialism see
Will i am Mar ina t sex c ell e n t Egalita rian ism and Emp ire
( Men loPark, ea I .: Ins tit ute for Hurna neSt udies, 197 5 ) ;
aI-so see Randolph Bourne, "The State," The World of
Ran dol P Ii B0 urn e, e d. L ill ian SchI iss e 1 ( New Yo r k: E.
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