The coup d"etat

[Drew Phipps]

Harry asked me to post three paragraphs of "Crosstrails" (P 12 - 13) in response to our questions about the US delayed entry into WW2:

"PLANS and PLANNERS

A certain piece of history not then known to them and of which they must have learned. An American plan being considered in the 1930's to declare war on the British Empire followed by the annexing and occupation of Canada and other English subject countries. British iron-grip control of world trade drove the entire European and American continents keeping them at a brink-of-war depression level. England's merchant fleets and navies ruled the waves. The sun never set on her world wide empire.

This strangulation, created the United States plan and a similar plan being formulated in Germany for unnatural expansion, simply for survival and economic recovery! Germany's dire problems made them first to execute their plan bringing England and British Canada into the European war in September 1939. The United States held back for the next two years as an alleged neutral nation until December 7, 1941. Diplomatic and trade relations where continued by the U.S. during those two years with all belligerent nations, surreptitiously, and openly.

With England pounded almost into submission and her global empire melting forever away, the U.S. began to aide that British wreckage. The greatest enemy (extensive British economic tyranny) had been destroyed. The elimination of the eroding German European military/economic control was all but assured. Having accumulated much of the wealth of warring nations, and with her greater industrial production in hand, the United States then entered and directed the war, on her own terms. The successful invasions from England upon German-held Europe was to the U.S. with her trailing allies the beginning of a-like-it-or-not new world order?"

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(I have reproduced Harry's text, spelling, and grammar, as exactly as I could manage.)

Harry doesn't say how he came into information supporting his idea; however, he worked on a British Great Lakes freighter in (I think) 1942 and 1943. He also joined the US Merchant Marine in 1944. Such talk about the significance and decline of British maritime trade might have been common among his co-workers. It also seems to be the sort of idea that would have been floated around in the John Birch Society, of which Harry was a member. I wonder if there is any historical evidence, besides certain known common economic interests of the US and Germany in the 1930's, for "a plan for the US to attack Britain..."

I do remember an analogous situation involving a party with certain common economic interests with the US: that Saddam Hussein might have heard from a State Department official that the US "wouldn't interfere" with his plan to invade Kuwait.