Remember the photo of Ike's West Point yearbook picture when he was dubbed "IKE, THE TERRIBLE SWEDISH JEW"? By the way, he was next, or nearly so, to the last in his class. This article was first printed in 1990, but we thought it was meaningful to reprint it now.
Note: During Cadet Eisenhower's time at West Point Academy, Eisenhower was summoned to the office of the headmaster and was asked some pointed questions. At the time, it was routine procedure to test a cadet's blood to insure White racial integrity.
Apparently, there was a question of Eisenhower's racial lineage and this was brought to Eisenhower's attention by the headmaster. When asked if he was part Oriental, Eisenhower replied in the negative. After some discussion, Eisenhower admitted having Jewish background. The headmaster then reportedly said, "That's where you get your Oriental blood?" Although he was allowed to remain at the academy, word got around since this was a time in history when non-Whites were not allowed into the academy. Note - The issue of Eisenhower's little-known Jewish background in academically essential in understanding his psychopathic hatred of German men, women and children.
Later, in Eisenhower's West Point Military Academy graduating class yearbook, published in 1915, Eisenhower is identified as a "terrible Swedish Jew."
Wherever Eisenhower went during his military career, Eisenhower's Jewish background and secondary manifesting behavior was a concern to his fellow officers. During World War II when Col. Eisenhower was working for Gen. Douglas MacArthur in the South Pacific, MacArthur protested to his superiors in Washington (DC) that Eisenhower was incompetent and that he did not want Eisenhower on his staff.
In 1943, Washington not only transferred Col. Eisenhower to Europe but promoted him over more than 30 more experienced senior officers to five star general and placed him in charge of all the US forces in Europe.
Thus it comes as no surprise that General George Patton, a real Aryan warrior, hated Eisenhower.
In 1943, Washington not only transferred Col. Eisenhower to Europe but promoted him over more than 30 more experienced senior officers to five star general and placed him in charge of all the US forces in Europe.
Wiki: "Eisenhower graduated in the upper half of the class of 1915.[15] The 1915 class was known as "the class the stars fell on", because 59 members eventually became general officers."
So much for rumors circulated here that Ike was dead last in his class and other obvious falsehoods.
Thus it comes as no surprise that General George Patton, a real Aryan warrior, hated Eisenhower.
Uh-huh.
Eisenhower graduated in 1915. He served with the infantry until 1918 at various camps in Texas and Georgia. During World War I, Eisenhower became the #3 leader of the new tank corps and rose to temporary (Bvt.) Lieutenant Colonel in the National Army. During the war he trained tank crews at "Camp Colt"—his first command—on the grounds of "Pickett's Charge" on the Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Civil War battle site. Ike and his tank crews never saw combat. After the war, Eisenhower reverted to his regular rank of captain (and was promoted to major a few days later) before assuming duties at Camp Meade, Maryland, where he remained until 1922. His interest in tank warfare was strengthened by many conversations with George S. Patton and other senior tank leaders; however their ideas on tank warfare were strongly discouraged by superiors.
Ike and Patton were held back by the Army old guard who thought cavalry was the thing and that tanks and machine guns were too nasty. These are the same "senior officers" that both Patton and Ike got promoted over when it became clear that Hitler and Tojo did not hold such refined views on the use of tanks and machine guns. In addition, the careers of the 59 generals graduating in the West Point class of 1915 shows that it wasn't just a couple of young bucks like Ike that got promoted over the old Army lifers, it was a bunch of them. Your narrative does nothing to account for this, let alone the obvious factual errors you're airing here.
And while I am no Patton expert, I suspect he'd bitch-slap you into next week if you ever called him an "Aryan" to his face. Patton was a man of war and wanted to beat the Nazis first and then take on the Russkies. I am aware of the quote attributed to Patton (i.e. "The Aryan mind is helpless in the face of the Jewish mind.") but I have concluded that it is merely a fabrication made by David Lane to the gullible readers of St*rmfr*nt, R*nse, Ary*n-N*t**n.org, and other websites that aren't exactly neutral arbiters of history. Notice that David Lane offers absolutely no proof that Patton ever made such a statement yet many people (who should know better) accept his assertion at face value.
"practically all of [the Jews] had the flat brownish gray eye common among the Hawaiians which, to my mind, indicates very low intelligence."
And 'To an admiring letter from a Roosevelt adviser, Bernard Baruch, Patton replied, "I cannot understand who had the presumption to attribute to me anti-Semitic ideas which I certainly do not possess."'
Was Patton simply bowing to Ike's patron, as Cyni would probably suggest? Who knows. Maybe Cyni has a ready explanation; I thought he'd find the Baruch connection interesting. I think my explanation of Patton as a real fighting man and war-winning general who didn't speak nearly as thoughtfully as he fought is a fair explanation of Patton. Who cares what the hell a general says as long as he wins for you? And Patton was a winner.
Judging by the current pResident, Patton may have had a point about the Hawaiians there.
Patton's remark about Hawaiians (and Jews) is reminiscent of the Social Darwinism and eugenic ideas peddled at West Point in the WW I era by the teaching staff including extensive reading on the subject. They held a collective low opinion of Slavs and the great waves of immigration from eastern Europe into the States. This dovetails with the eugenicists and Margaret Sanger who considered it their duty to reduce the offspring of such immigrants. And the role of the Taylor raids and J. Edgar Hoover's freshly minted FBI which spent a lot of effort monitoring and deporting any subversives. Patton, Ike and other military leaders were influenced by this line of thinking toward Slavs, Slav immigrants to the States, and particularly toward Jews from the Slavic countries. The southeastern Europeans (Italy on east) were also considered undesirables but not as bad as the Slavs. Ike, Patton and the others were all products of their times and their indoctrination, and the culture around them. Just as we all are. We have to see them in terms of their own times and the institutions that shaped them.
Fresh out of West Point, Ike knew he was a loser without a sponsor.
First he latched onto Gen. Fox Connor to look out for him during his early years, which Connor did by making sure Ike was not thrown out and attended all the correct military school.
Next he latched onto Baruch. During these years Patton was always his Senior and was kept in by his own merit. Patton was a tactician and strategist of the first degree. Ike was a a perfect aide de camp and paper shuffler.
When war came, Baruch called Roosevelt whenever he wanted Ike promoted and eventually jumped over Patton, BUT NEVER IN PERMANENT GRADE. In total I recall Ike jumping over a total of 150 senior officers, HERETOFORE UNHEARD OF IN ARMY HISTORY.
It was Baruch that held Ike out of politics in 1948, Baruch that decided which party he would run in in 1952.
In 1946 Patton and Ike were due to be reduced to PERMANENT rank, that would have made Patton Ikes senior once again.
Strangest thing tho, Patton died in a military hospital of a hear attack AFTER being involved in an accident.
Ike was an excellent paper shuffler, glad hander, all around good guy.
Ike was an excellent paper shuffler, glad hander, all around good guy.
Quite an athlete in his youth too.
I admit, you've made me far more curious about Baruch though. So many shadowy figures behind FDR, obviously he was one of them.
There is always a political schemer behind the scenes. Do you have any particular policy objective that Baruch intended for Ike to accomplish as prez?
I suppose Israel came out of the Suez War (called the Tripartite Aggression by Arabs) as the only member of the pact who got something out of Ike and the Soviets that way. Not sure how important it actually was to them. Probably the increase in border security with Egypt was more valuable than the shipping, at least until 1967. Perhaps the goal was to demonstrate national resolve and an effective military. It was ill-advised even if somewhat successful for Israel.
The three allies, especially Israel, were mainly successful in attaining their immediate military objectives, but pressure from the United States and the USSR at the United Nations and elsewhere forced them to withdraw. Britain and France completely failed in their political and strategic aim of controlling the canal. Israel fulfilled some of its objectives, attaining the freedom of navigation through the Straits of Tiran and the pacification of the Egyptian-Israeli border through UNEF.
Wiki further explains: "Eisenhower himself later stated privately that he regretted his opposition to the combined British, French and Israeli response to the Crisis.[59] After retiring from office Eisenhower came to see the Suez Crisis as perhaps his biggest foreign policy mistake. Not only did he feel that the United States weakened two crucial European Cold War allies, but he created in Nasser a man capable of dominating the Arab world."
Britain decolonized the last of its empire. DeGaulle's France, feeling betrayed by a premature British withdrawal and by American lack of support in Suez following on their defeat at Dien Ben Phu (another Ike decision), began a policy that led them to undermine NATO for the next sixty years.
So Israel might be considered the only winner of the Suez War but I don't see that it did them much good overall. The ill-will they earned cost more than it was ever worth.
Oh, well, at least the Canadians finally invented peacekeeping and got their own maple leaf flag, free of British and French colonial insignia at Egypt's insistence.
It surprises me how many otherwise well-read people know almost nothing about the role of Suez in ending the colonial era and marking the beginning of the real Cold War.
Do you have any particular policy objective that Baruch intended for Ike to accomplish as prez?
That is an excellent question, glad you asked.
The answer is no. Many wondered what was intended, good or bad, but I know of no one that ever ventured anything. Total blank.
One thing was certain however. To those of in the military, Ike turned totally against Russia, he came to realize, as had Patton, that Russia had eyes on all of Europe. In that vein, and in our line of business, Ike took it to the Russians in a very overt manner.
When he came out with the MIC speech, that solidified to many that Ike had become his own man. As far as history is concerned, his MIC speech made sure he will be neglected in history.
Hmmm...so you intimate in earlier posts that Baruch manipulated Ike into the presidency from a mediocre military career. Now you can't say what Baruch got out of it, if anything.
So now I'm not sure what your total view on Ike and/or Baruch actually is. Or how Baruch can be considered sinister if he got nothing out of supporting an officer's career and eventual presidency.