The Ron Paul File

The de facto leader of the opposing wing of the Democrats is Senate Minority Leader Alben Barkley of Kentucky. It's about that time that Mississippi Congressman William M. Whittington, one of the Democrats on the House Judiciary committee, stands up and submits articles of impeachment for President Henry Wallace. 1944 was a good year for the Republicans, the House and Senate are solidly Republican, and with the deeply conservative Southern Senators and Congressman on Taft's side, Taft has an chance like no President since FDR to make policy. The Republicans, meanwhile, are much more divided; with far more candidates who want to be the nation's 34th President. In Europe, meanwhile, General Mark Clark has a bold scheme that will bring him great glory and renown as an American general, and as an added bonus, will prove very helpful to the war effort; an American invasion of Europe's heartland in the spring of 1945. One of Clark's primary associates in planning Operation Anvil is General Curtis Lemay, C-in-C of American air forces in Britain, who has one good way to get through the (vastly weakened) Atlantic Wall; burn it through. Zhukov, whose signal intelligences have let him read Manstein's dispatches, plans for a defensive fight in the spring and then a great blow in the summer.

In early April of 1944, the Soviet defenders of Kursk are awakened by a great rumbling of artillery and panzers in the distance; Manstein's spring offensive has begun, with its aim to strike at Moscow, again. In this vocabulary no attempt has been made to indicate the original Arabic pronunciation; the aim has been to accentuate every word in the way in which it is ordinarily pronounced by Malays in the colloquial language. In the preparation of this vocabulary I am particularly indebted to Favre's Malay-French Dictionary and to Klinkert's Malay-Dutch Pocket Dictionary. Willkie's delegates coalesce around former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen for the nonce; while Stassen, serving as a naval staff officer in the Pacific, is probably unnominatable at this point, he can serve as a valuable block indeed as the former Willkie delegates plan to choose between the man who killed Wendell Willkie, and the men who might kill his ideals. Tragedy strikes the political scene a few weeks later, when, in the middle of a violent debate on Communism (the American politicial scene is much less gentlemanly in the Wallace timeline) between Republican front-runner Wendell Willkie and New York Governor Thomas Dewey during the most recent primary debate on May 20, when Wendell Willkie falls over dead.

Joseph Stilwell. American relations with the Nationalist Chinese are in terrible shape; Stilwell doesn't like Chiang, and Wallace has been funneling most of the Hump tonnage straight to Mao Tse-Tung. Most have "eyes to see" but don't "see" what is happening. August of 1944 doesn't see any amphibious invasions, but it does see preperations for two grand ones in the next year. Is There Any Gold in Fort Knox? On July 9, 1944, the last German defenders of Kursk surrender to the Soviet forces there. Finally, all powers will demand unconditional surrender. Field Marshall Zhukov is delighted; the Germans are finally, finally falling back, and the Red Army is on the move, going west! In mid-September of 1944, Sicily finally falls to the combined Allied offensive. The damage is done, though, and the era of the gentlemanly press is coming rapidly to an end. There are isolated, minor anti-draft riots on many American campuses near the end of the summer of '44; mostly they're against the idea of an integrated Army fighting to liberate Europe for the Godless Russians. In the Pacific, General Douglas MacArthur has ever-so-generously accepted command of Operation Overlord, the American invasion of Formosa, set to begin in January of 1945. MacArthur is in one of his manic phases, organizingly enthuastically and boldly, reasoning that if he cannot take credit for the idea of Overlord, he can at least take credit for the crushing victory that he is sure it will be.

When Rothschild discovered that the general, who was now attached to the court of Prince William of Hanau, was interested in rare coins he decided to take full advantage of the situation. They were now he center of attention. Wallace, horrified, makes a speech promising full restitution to Davis's family, and promises a greater role for blacks in his administration, now and after the election. The US armed forces are increasingly black now; the tens of thousands of "Wallace's Boys" who joined up after integration are rapidly being replaced by "Davis's Men", discharged or retired veterans who've joined up in the name of their fallen leader. Bit by bit, then, the Allied forces begin slogging their way north; against strong German resistance. The meager 'privileges' that were granted to them by their 'owners' could be withdrawn at a moment's notice. Additional Rothschild agents were on hand to carry the intelligence bulletins to a Rothschild command post strategically located nearby. Far to the west, not far from Poitors, Hermann Goering is inspecting his hand-picked crews for the operation he plans to use to rise to the Fuhrer's right hand again. General Benjamin O. Davis; the first black general in the United States Army, brought off the retired list to command a brigade at Normandy (his was one of the first to hit the beaches and the last to be evacuated) is just leaving the War Department when a shabbily-dressed enlisted man bursts from the crowd of office workers and yells "Die, nigger butcher!" before shooting Davis three times in the chest and fleeing.