The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor after their "sneak attack" at Port Arthur
had the New York Times gushing about their martial prowess and declaring war by
proclamation had gone out of style. In fact within a half-century Japan attacked without
warning China, Russian, France, Great Britain and the United States without warning.
Americans have believed they sacrificed greatly during World War II. War orders from
allies and the American war effort caused income for the average factory worker to rise 50
percent in real terms from 1939 to 1944. This huge increase in income has never been
approached in peacetime America and has much to do with fond memories of World War II by a
populace which has believed the nation sacrificed during those years. Such willful
delusions have not been confined to the proletariat. Nobel laureate Milton
Friedman has maintained there was no need of a draft because if threatened, more than
enough patriotic citizens would volunteer to defend America. In World War II only
one-third of American military forces volunteered. Milton Friedman was not one of them.
One of the truly wise Americans, George Kennan, over 90 years of age, has stated he did
not regard the United States civilization of the post-World War II era as a successful
civilization. Mr. Kennan did not think the political system of present day America
adequate to the age to which we are moving.
Who has done the fighting and dying in American wars? Since the Civil War the dying has
been done mostly by the white lower and lower-middle class. The Ivy League types have
wiggled out. Blacks have highly distorted memories of their participation in wars. Jews
have escaped by nefarious means all American wars to include the holy of holies, World War
II. Yet Jews are more than willing to have others do what they lack the guts to do.
Revealing harsh truths about Jews is regarded by American social arbiters as much worse
than seeing poor whites die.
Writing in World War II George Orwell found intellectual cowardice to be the worst
enemy a writer had to face. The English literary intelligentsia voluntarily imposed
censorship upon themselves. In German occupied France historian Marc Bloch wrote his
testament for an expected death. He asked to be buried in a civil ceremony and remembered
as a good Frenchman. He forbade the reading of Jewish prayers. If any thought this could
be construed as a coward's denial of his heritage, Bloch affirmed in the face of
death that he was born a Jew and never denied it. Nor had he ever been tempted to do so.
In moving words he wrote of his lifelong struggle to achieve complete sincerity in word
and thought. "I hold that any compromise with untruth, no matter what the pretext, is
the mark of a human soul's ultimate corruption." Within a year of writing this
bequest Marc Bloch died before a Nazi firing squad. American Jewry has very few like Marc
Bloch.