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The Strange Death of FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
A History of the Roosevelt-Delano Dynasty America's Royal Family
Emanuael M. Josephson©1948
CHEDNEY PRESS
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New York 21, N. Y.
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CHAPTER IX
THE DYNASTY'S NAVAL INTERESTS
F. D. R.—HEREDITARY NAVAL SECRETARY
President Wilson was a quite synthetic creation of the Wall Street interests.
The principal figure in build. ing him up and imposing him on the nation was
his intimate friend and life-long associate Cleveland H. Dodge, a Princeton
classmate of Wilson's and an in-law of the Rockefellers who together with
Cyrus Hall Mc. Cormick, gave him the Princeton professorship, pri. vately
supplemented his salary in conjunction with Percy R. Pyne (National City
Bank), promoted him to Princeton's president, and through George Harvey, the
Morgan-Ryan-Rockefeller agent and president of Harper's Publishing Company,
secured him the governorship of New Jersey from Democratic boss, Senator
James Smith, Jr. on payment to him of $75,000 by Dodge. (McCombs' "Making
Wilson President", p. 20) In 1908, Harvey predicted in Harper's Weekly, on
be. half of the Wall Street crowd, that Wilson would be elected Governor of
New Jersey in 1910, and President in 1912. And the clique carried out their
scheme on time and without a hitch, while making it appear to the public that
Wilson actually opposed the poli. tical bosses who put through the deal that
made him President.
Dodge was not engaged in politics for his health. He was director of the
National City Bank, a principal of the Phelps Dodge Copper Company, and
heavily interested in the munition industry—including Remington Arms Company,
Winchester Arms Company and Union Metallic Cartridge Company. With such heavy
interests at stake it was necessary that he be assured that his pal, Woodrow
Wilson, would take orders with. out question and that Wilson assure his
associates of it. This Wilson did in dinners arranged with representatives of
the Rockefeller-Morgan crowd. Among them was a dinner for Wilson held at
Beechwood, home of Frank A. Vanderlip, President of the National City Bank,
which was attended by James Stillman and Wil. liam Rockefeller. (John
Winkler, The First Billion, p. 210). Wilson agreed to permit Vanderlip to
write the monetary views for his speeches. But Wilson would not take these
views directly from Vanderlip because he did not want the public to realize
that his pretended opposition to the financial interests and the trusts was a
fraud. William G. McAdoo served as go-between. (Frank A. Vanderlip and Boyden
Sparks, From FarmBoy to Financier, pp. 225-226).
At the time of Wilson's inauguration, Dodge was under indictment in the
Territory of New Mexico and Arizona for a land deal fraud. Following Wilson's
inauguration, the case was promptly dismissed.
Peace is not conducive to great profits in the muni. tions industries. Dodge
was more than a little interested in a good sized war. Franklin Delano
Roosevelt had campaigned for Wilson with the support of Dodge and his
Rockefeller-Morgan allies. The hold that the Roosevelt-Delano Dynasty had on
Wilson is illustrated by his appointment of Frederic A. Delano, F. D. R.'s
uncle, as vice-governor of the Federal Reserve Bank, a key position in
national finance.
On Wilson's election, nothing could have been more ,readily taken for granted
than the appointment of Senator Franklin Delano Roosevelt, thirty-one years
old, to the post of Assistant Secretary of the Navy, just as previously
Theodore Roosevelt had been appointed to the post by McKinley. For naval
armor, armaments and shipbuilding is one of the principal interests of the
Roosevelt-Delano Dynasty. As Daniel W. Delano relates in "My Cousin In The
White House" (Pic, July 8, 1941) it was a Delano, a cousin of F. D. R.'s who
built the first armor-clad, screw-driven warship and for generations the
family engaged in shipbuilding and seafaring. Under the influence of his
mother, F. D. R. had passionately devoted himself to seafaring and
specialized in a study of naval vessels and naval warfare to prepare him to
carry on a family tradition.
For in the past half century the job of Naval Secretary has become a
hereditary prerogative of the Roosevelt-Delano Dynasty. In every
administration which has not been headed by one of its members as Presi.
dent, it has been represented by one or more Secretaryships in the Navy
Department, to take care of their naval interests. A list of these is
impressive.
HEREDITARY NAVAL SECRETARIES OF
ROOSEVELT-DELANO DYNASTY
President Secretary Asst. Sec'y.
McKinley T. Roosevelt
T. Roosevelt
Taft
Wilson F. D. Roosevelt
Harding T. Roosevelt Jr.
Coolidge T. Roosevelt Jr.
T. D. Douglas
(T. R.'s nephew)
Hoover Chas. Francis Adam
F. D. Roosevelt Henry L. Roosevelt
Nicholas Roosevelt
Delano
Delano
Delano
Arrived in Washington, Franklin was still under Teddy Roosevelt's tutelage,
as his Dynastic heir-in-the- making. He took residence in the home of Teddy's
sister, Anna Cowles. To provide the brains, press relations and ghost
writing, Louis Howe went along and was placed on the Navy Department payroll.
One of the most important shipyards in naval construction is the Newport News
Shipbuilding & Dry Dock. It was built and privately owned by Collis P.
Huntington, builder of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Miss Helen D.
Huntington was the first wife of Vincent Astor, nephew and cousin of Franklin
Delano Roosevelt. E. A. Adams was Secretary-treasurer of the Company and
Charles Frances Adams, Hoovers Secretary of the Navy, became a director in
1940 when the stock was first sold to the public.
It is interesting to note how the business of the Newport News Shipbuilding
soared whenever the Roosevelts were on the job. The Company received its
first naval construction contracts-three gunboats—in 1897 when Teddy
Roosevelt was on the job as Assistant Secretary. It received no new contracts
until T. R. became President-two battleships in 1900, a third in 1901, a
monitor in 1902, a fourth battleship in 1903, three cruisers in 1905, a fifth
and sixth battleship in 1906, a seventh battleship in 1907, a fourth and
fifth cruiser in 1908. Under Taft, Newport News did not do so Well; merely
two destroyers and one battleship in 1910, one destroyer in 1911, and a
destroyer and ammunItion lighter in 1912. The drop in tonnage was even more
significant. During Teddy Roosevelt's presidency Newport News had built
134,243 tons and under Taft a mere 23,652.
With a Roosevelt back on the job, this time F. D. R., Newport News business
began to pick up again; in 1913, two colliers, 38,000 tons, more than the
whole Taft administration; in 1914, one battleship and two oil barges, total
28,670; in 1916, one battleship, 31,400 tons; in 1917, one battleship, 32,000
tons. The total tonage built by the shipyard prior to our entry in. to the
war was 130,000, right back to the old standard.
F. D. R. was ready to realize his childhood dream, a real naval war with real
battleships! The benevolent, philanthropic Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests
provided him with not one, but with two wars.
In Mexico, the Rockefeller controlled Pierce-Waters Oil Company demanded of
Diaz that he permit the importation of Standard Oil products from the United
States tax free. Diaz refused. The Rockefeller inter. ests financed Madero to
stage a revolution. (They told Barron, p. 141). The British oil interests and
Lord Cowdray backed Victoriano Huerto who in February 1913, ousted Madero and
executed him. Wilson's an. gel Dodge and his Rockefeller-Morgan allies then
financed and furnished with munitions Venustiano Carranza and Pancho Villa
despite an embargo. When a German ship attempted to land arms at Vera Cruz,
in April 1914, American warships shelled the town. On July 15, 1914, Huerta
was forced out and Carranza took over for the Morgan-Rockefeller interests.
Villa then turned on Carranza, resulting in American intervention. There was
little naval action in the Mexican incident to delight the heart of F. D. R.
and his munitions industry associates.
World War I, provided by the Rockefeller-Standard-Oil-British-Royal Dutch
feud, made up with action aplenty. When the British capitulated to the
Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests in Saudi Arabia and the Near East, we were
doomed to enter the war. But the conspirators delayed the declaration until
after they had engineered Wilson's reelection on a "keep us out of the war"
platform. But they had made sure that their plans would not fail, by putting
up an opposition candidate, Charles Evans Hughes, who was equally their
agent. In the meantime F. D. R. had strained at the leash, he was so anxious
to have his nice little war to play with. He reported, according to the New
York Times (April 7, 1937, 20:6) that the Navy had begun extensive purchases
of war supplies in 1916.
The support that F. D. R. had from the behind-the-scene bosses of the Wilson
administration is clear from the fact that though he was merely Assistant
Secretary, he exercised full and absolute authority and deliberately violated
all laws and regulations with perfect assurance and absolute freedom of any
checks or restraints. His rampant militarism and wild, unrestrained and
profligate spending on munitions must have delighted the hearts of the Dodges
and other munitions and armament interests among his backers and the Dynasty.
After the armistice, when plans of naval disarmament and of junking vessels
in the service and scrapping many under construction, were under
consideration, Franklin Delano Roosevelt continued to demand a greater Navy,
more men and more ships "to put the Navy in fighting trim". He demanded a
supplemental appropriation of over eighteen million dollars.
Investigation by the House Appropriations Committee subsequently revealed
that under Franklin Delano Roosevelt's direction the keels of ninety-six
destroyers costing $181,000,000 had been laid after the armistice; and that
ten cruisers costing, on a "cost plus" basis, a total of $100,000,000 had ben
rushed ahead to completion after the armistice. When completed they proved
defective or worthless. They were scrapped. The performance was little short
of criminal and should have barred F. D. Roosevelt forever from holding
public office in the opinion of the investigators.
Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Company delivered twenty small destroyers
in 1919 and 1920. Business was good.
The next big spurt in Newport News Shipbuilding's naval construction business
came in the mid-thirties when Congress authorized President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt to spend a small fraction of P.W.A. appropriations on national
defense. What money was spared from hoeing leaves was spent on naval
construction. Newport News delivered between 1937 and 1939, two aircraft
carriers, two light cruisers, and two destroyers, a total of 73,885 tons.
During World War II Newport News fared splendidly.
In later days the "Big Three", Newport News, Bethlehem and New York
Shipbuilding shared fairly evenly in the contracts so that all the interests
got a break. The smaller shipbuilding companies did not fare so well. A
representative of the Bath Iron Works testified before a Senate investigating
committee that when he sought a Naval contract he was advised to "see"
Eleanor Roosevelt's secretary.
John T. Flynn reports in his "Country Squire In The White House" (p. 23) that
Franklin Delano Roosevelt boasted before an audience at the Brooklyn Academy
of Music about wasting money during the war.
He did not hesitate to undertake huge expenditures even before Congress had
made any appropriations. He even then had the contempt of Junker Bismarck for
legislatures. "Roosevelt was a devotee to the use of commandeering orders",
writes Ernest Lindley, his campaign biographer (Franklin D. Roosevelt, p.
143).
"It is perfectly true that I took the chance of authorizing certain large
expenditures before Con-gress had actually appropriated the money," F. D. R.
was forced to confess at a Congressional com-mittee hearing in 1920.
He acknowledged that he had violated enough laws to send him to jail for 999
years. But Dynastic law. breakers do not go to jail. They become presidents,
dictators and kings.
When the Navy adopted oil-burning Diesel engines, and required oil for fuel,
the interests of the Dynasty naturally turned to oil. The outcome was the
Teapot Dome scandal—a conspiracy to divert, by corruption of government
officials, a large tract of Naval oil reserve land involving the Sinclair and
Doheny oil companies, and in the background, the Standard Oil of Indiana, the
Midwest Oil Company and others.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. resigned from his position of director of the Sinclair
Refinery Company to become Assistant Secretary of the Navy. At his request
Harry F. Sinclair in 1919 gave the position of vice. president to his brother
Archibald Roosevelt. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. then arranged to secure the
release of oil lands by the Navy to Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall
for disposal to Sinclair. Roosevelt then arranged to have President Harding
sign an executive order drawn up by Secretary Fall giving the land to the
Sinclair and Doheny interests.
Subsequent investigation and prosecution revealed that the deal was
characterized by bribery and corruption on a large scale. Archibald Roosevelt
was assigned the task of carrying a little black bag containing $100,000 in
cash to Fall. Secretary Fall received a total bribe of nearly $500,000 of
which $100,000 was paid by Doheny, and $230,000 in Liberty bonds and $106,000
in cash, including $35,000 for a trip to Russia to negotiate oil leases by
Sinclair. Fall was found guilty of criminal malfeasance and sent to jail in
1931. The Standard Oil of Indiana, through its subsidiary Midwest Oil Company
was paid $1,000,000 to relinquish claims to the field.
Rockefeller stood by Col. Stewart, President of the Standard Oil of Indiana
in spite of exposure of this corruption. But when investigation revealed in
1928 that Stewart, like the other participants in Continental Trading Company
had failed to turn over to their companies a 250 commission per barrel on
over 33 million barrels of oil purchased for them, Rockefeller was compelled
to display indignation on behalf of stockholders. He retired Col. Stewart on
a mere $75,000 a year pension. But his sons Robert G. and James Stewart were
well cared for in the role of Standard Oil executives. The investigation
revealed that Harry Sinclair had boasted that the entire deal was "protected"
by the Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests.
The Roosevelts involved in the Teapot Dome deal were shielded and immune from
prosecution, as is usual with members of the Dynasty. The incident did make
it very clear, however, that they are not in politics for their health. The
Dynasty and its Navy interests are distinctly of commercial character. The
Dynasty's interests in Rockefeller's Saudi Arabia oil, in the pretended
interest of the Navy, will be related later. It was on so far grander a scale
that it makes the graft in Teapot Dome look like peanuts.
pps.103-112
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Adieu, Adios, Aloha.
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