The coup d"etat

[David Guyatt]

Here is my long overdue review of Harry's manuscript "Crosstrails":



Harry Dean's "Crosstrails"

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I am also intrigued about Harry's assertion that the delay of the United States's entry into WW2 was not motivated by isolationism or lack of public support, but by a Machiavellian calculation that it would be in the US' interest to allow the British Empire to crumble, clearing the way for the US to assume Britain's role in the post-war world. Harry provides no evidence, but I am certain that other authors might have trod this particular path.

Drew or Harry, could I ask you to provide a bit more detail on this please.

This very much accords with my view after having read extracts from Shoup & Minter's IMperial Brain Trust on the work of the CFR's War & Peace Studies Group 1939-45. It wasn't stated as an outright decision but a careful reading between the lines certainly lent itself to this interpretation. The fact that the CFR still have not made the entire studies publicly available 70 years later, strongly suggests to me that there has to be real meat on the bone about this.

I also recall that in L Fletcher Prouty's book on JFK that Prouty stated that at the end of WWII vast quantities of US war material, rather than being returned to US domestic stockpiles were divided into two and shipped to Korea and French Indochina. The suggestion being of course, that both the Korean war and the later Indochina/Vietnam war were prearranged as part of the US's move into the far east to take over from the British, French Dutch etc., as part of their overall global strategy following WWII. This would also, I think, form part of the conclusions/reccomendations of the same CFR studies.