The @WmBillWalton Show w/ Chris & @DrShea_DC

The Bill Walton Show

Dr. Shea Bradley Farrell and Chris Farrell, author of Exiled Emissary: George H. Earle III, Soldier, Sailor, Diplomat, Governor, Spy, join The Bill Walton Show for a discussion of foreign policy in World War II through the contributions of George H. Earle III.

Earle was both a war hero in World War I and a close friend of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. His friendship with Roosevelt secured him positions of ambassador to Vienna, diplomat to Bulgaria, emissary to the Balkans, and military attache to Istanbul.

At the end of war, through his involvement in Central and Eastern Europe, Earle was convinced by the German resistance’s insistence that the Soviets posed a serious, civilizational threat to Europe. His interactions with Soviet refugees in Istanbul solidified this idea in his mind. However, his skepticisms of the Soviets contrasted with the friendly terms the Roosevelt White House intended to pursue, allowing the Soviets to judge the Nazis in the Nuremberg Trials, believing their empty promises of establishing democracies in Eastern Europe, and conceding part of Germany and Eastern Europe to them, decisions that were influenced by Soviet-planted spies and influencers acting as advisors in the White House.

As Bradley Farrell shared, the result was the United States’ cooperation with the oppression of Eastern European countries under the Soviet Union. “The Hungarians were telling me that the rhetoric coming out of the United States reminded them of their Soviet Era. That’s like a kick in the gut…We helped to spread communism. We helped to get the Soviet Union these countries to foment this ideology,” she concluded.

Earle’s advice was ignored; Earle himself was exiled to Samoa after all his service, and the United State government continued to support and propagate communism and Soviet power.

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