During World War II, Pearson's column not only revealed embarrassing news items, but expanded to criticize the Roosevelt administration's conduct of the war, in particular U.S. foreign policy regarding Stalin and the Soviet Union. As a supporter of the Soviet Union's struggle against Nazi Germany, Pearson demanded that the Allied Command create a second front in Europe in 1943 to assist the Soviets. When Pearson's demands were not met, he began to openly criticize Secretary of State Hull, Dean, and other State Department officials, whom Pearson accused of hating Soviet Russia. After one of Pearson's more virulent columns accused Secretary of State Hull and his deputies of a conscious policy to "bleed Russia white," President Roosevelt convened a press conference in which he angrily accused Pearson of printing statements that were a lie "from beginning to end", jeopardizing United Nations unity, and committing an act of bad faith towards his own nation. The president concluded his statement by calling Pearson "a chronic liar. Wikipedia
The FDR Administration was already filled with top level Soviet assets, including FDR's right hand man Harry Hopkins, and his own wife Eleanor, but enough was never enough for Stalin.
Meanshile, Stalin allied with Japan in Asia against the West, and never opened a second front there.
You won't hear Pearson complaining about that!
Russia actually diverted Lend Lease shipments from Alaska to Japan.
You won't hear Pearson complaining about that! Given his Soviet agent connections, and Soviet connections within the Administration, it is certain that he knew about it.
The FDR Administration was already filled with top level Soviet assets, including FDR's right hand man Harry Hopkins, and his own wife Eleanor, but enough was never enough for Stalin.
Meanshile, Stalin allied with Japan in Asia against the West, and never opened a second front there.
You won't hear Pearson complaining about that!
Russia actually diverted Lend Lease shipments from Alaska to Japan.
You won't hear Pearson complaining about that! Given his Soviet agent connections, and Soviet connections within the Administration, it is certain that he knew about it.
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