This document summarizes the book "Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover's Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath". The book is a critical analysis of FDR and Churchill's actions before, during, and after WWII. It argues that FDR deliberately led the US into WWII against public opinion and betrayed Eastern European nations to Stalin. It also asserts that FDR provoked Japan into attacking Pearl Harbor by imposing sanctions. The book challenges conventional views of WWII and the actions of FDR and Churchill. It provides extensive documentation through footnotes to support its claims and interpretations of events.

1. Freedom
Betrayed:
Herbert Hoover's
Secret History
of the Second World
War and Its Aftermath

3. Freedom
Betrayed:
Herbert Hoover's
Secret History
of the Second World
War and Its Aftermath

4. Quotes on
‘Freedom
Betrayed’

5. “Freedom Betrayed is an extended excoriation of
Franklin D. Roosevelt, and his foreign policy... the
words will be jarring to many who today regard World
War II in uniformly heroic terms”. - Tim Ferguson, Forbes

6. “A remarkably well-
researched, heavily
footnoted revisionist
history… seems
destined to become
one of the key
historical documents
of the mid-20th
century, challenging
many long-accepted
interpretations of
events”.
- James E. Person Jr.,
The Washington Times

7. “Freedom Betrayed is a searing indictment of FDR and the men around
him as politicians who lied prodigiously about their desire to keep
America out of war, even as they took one deliberate step after another
to take us into war.”- Pat Buchanan, “Did FDR Provoke Pearl Harbour?”

8. “In its sharp dissent from
the conventional
understanding of the
mid-twentieth century,
Herbert Hoover's book
succeeds in bringing that
history back to life and in
forcing us to think about
it in ways that will surely
be unfamiliar to many.”
- Tom Bethell,
“Revisionist History
That Matters”,
The American Spectator.

9. “Freedom Betrayed is the
work of a serious student
of history, and is heavily
researched and
footnoted. Its publication
is a monumental moment
in the history of
presidential writings,
and Nash deserves credit
for his persistence
and dedication
in shaping it.”
- Gerald J. Russello
“Herbert Hoover, Revisionist”, The University Bookman

10. “What an amazing historical
find! Historian
George H. Nash, the dean of
Herbert Hoover studies,
has brought forth a very rare
manuscript in Freedom
Betrayed. Here is Hoover
unplugged, delineating on
everything from the ‘lost
statesmanship’ of FDR to the
Korean War.
A truly invaluable work
of presidential history.
Highly recommended.”
- DOUGLAS BRINKLEY,
is professor of history
at Rice University and editor
of The Reagan Diaries.

11. “Finally, after waiting for close
to half a century, we now have
Hoover’s massive and
impassioned account of
American foreign policy from
1933 to the early 1950s.
Thanks to the efforts of George
H. Nash, there exists an
unparalleled picture of
Hoover’s world view, one long
shared by many conservatives.
Nash’s thorough and
perceptive introduction shows
why he remains America’s
leading Hoover scholar.”
- JUSTUS D. DOENECKE, author of
Storm on the Horizon: The Challenge to
American Intervention, 1939-1941

12. “A forcefully argued and well documented alternative to, and critique of,
the conventional liberal historical narrative of America’s road to war and
its war aims. Even readers comfortable with the established account
will find themselves thinking that on some points the accepted history
should be reconsidered and perhaps revised.”
- JOHN EARL HAYNES,
- author of
Spies: The Rise and Fall of
the KGB in America.

13. “Freedom Betrayed
offers vivid proof of
William Faulkner’s famous
dictum that
“The past is never dead.
It’s not even past.”
For those who might think
that history has settled the
mantle of consensus around
the events of the World War
II era, Hoover’s iconoclastic
narrative will come as an
unsettling reminder that
much controversy remains.

14. By turns quirky and astute, in prose that is often acerbic and unfailingly
provocative, Hoover opens some old wounds and inflicts a few new
ones of his own, while assembling a passionate case for the tragic errors
of Franklin Roosevelt’s diplomacy.

15. - DAVID M. KENNEDY is professor of history emeritus at Stanford
University and the author of Freedom From Fear: The American
People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
Freedom Betrayed is must-read for anyone
interested in the most consequential upheaval
of the twentieth century.”

16. Imagine spending 20 years
writing and rewriting
a monumental tome
dissecting 20th-century
global conflicts,
only to have it sit in storage
for nearly five more decades !

17. Such was the fate of the book
Herbert Hoover called his Magnum
Opus: a heavily documented effort
to expose hidden aspects of
U.S. foreign policy before,
during and after World War II.

18. At last Freedom Betrayed, the
manuscript that the 31st president
completed in 1963, is in print
(Hoover Institution Press).

25. Edited and introduced by historian George H. Nash,
the 900-page memoir offers an encyclopaedia of uncomfortable truths
that dull the gloss of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister
Winston Churchill.

26. Roosevelt
engineered
the U.S. entry
into World
War II despite
public and
congressional
anti-war
sentiment.

27. This, in the face of his 1940 campaign promise:
"I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again:
Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars."

28. In the author's view, the wise
course would have been to
let Russia's Stalin
and Germany's Hitler
—"destroy each other."

29. American territory was never threatened by
the Germans, and even Western Europe
would have remained unscathed had it not
attempted to stop Germany's eastward push.

30. Instead, by partnering with
Stalin to defeat Hitler,
Roosevelt and Churchill gave
communism legitimacy.

34. Worse, by acceding to the Russian dictator's territorial demands, they
betrayed the very principles of universal self-determination they had
proclaimed in the Atlantic Charter.

36. By November 1943, secret commitments by the Allies at their Tehran
Conference constituted
"the greatest blows to human freedom
in this century."

37. The Soviet Union would be allowed
to annex Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,
Bessarabia, Bukovina and parts of
Finland and Poland and to secure a
periphery of
"friendly border states."

38. Thus, fifteen nations were betrayed to
Communism and the independent life
and freedom they had enjoyed were
snuffed out.

39. Hoover documents Roosevelt's repeated
assurances to Stalin that he would do
nothing to thwart Soviet ambitions.

40. Freedom Betrayed indicts
Roosevelt for instigating the
Pacific war as well:

41. His economic sanctions against Japan and shunning of
Japanese peace overtures sparked the Pearl Harbour
attack and ultimately the
U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
—"the act of unparalleled brutality
in all American history."

42. Hoover cites other markers along
the slippery slope of the Stalin
alliance: the Yalta Conference
agreement ceding the Kurile
Islands and Sakhalin Island
to Russia
(in exchange for promised help, of
dubious value, against Japan);

43. the broken agreement with
Chinese nationalist leader
Chiang Kai-shek to consult him
on matters pertaining to Asia;
the loss of China and North
Korea to communism.

44. One of the author's provocative questions: What part did Communist
agents in U.S. government positions play in Roosevelt's policies?

58. Freedom Betrayed,
resembles a prosecutor’s
brief against Roosevelt
—and against Winston
Churchill as well
— at the bar of history.
Hoover’s “thunderbolt”
now strikes—
nearly a half-century
after it was readied.

78. The former president’s interpretation of the conduct and
consequences of the Second World War… challenges us
to think afresh about our past.”
- BERTRAND M. PATENAUDE,
author
of A Wealth of Ideas: Revelations
from the
Hoover Institution Archives

80. “Nearly fifty years after his death, Herbert Hoover returns as
the ultimate revisionist historian, prosecuting his heavily
documented indictment of US foreign policy before, during,
and after the Second World War. Brilliantly edited by George
Nash, Freedom Betrayed is as passionate as it is provocative.

81. Many no doubt will
dispute Hoover’s strategic
vision. But few can dispute
the historical significance
of this unique volume,
published even as
Americans of the
twenty-first century
debate their moral and
military obligations.”
- RICHARD NORTON SMITH is a
presidential historian and
author, former director of
several presidential libraries,
and Current scholar-in-residence at
George Mason University

108. We need to understand the context of our history
and rediscover the real facts, the real people and the real history
- so that we might counter satan's deceptions of the nations.
Facts are Stubborn Things

109. Dr. Peter Hammond
Reformation Society
P.O. Box 74
Newlands, 7725
Cape Town, South Africa
Tel: (021) 689-4480
Fax: (021) 685-5884
Email: info@ReformationSA.org
Website: www.ReformationSA.org

128. Dr. Peter Hammond
Reformation Society
P.O. Box 74
Newlands, 7725
Cape Town, South Africa
Tel: (021) 689-4480
Fax: (021) 685-5884
Email: info@ReformationSA.org
Website: www.ReformationSA.org