George N. Crocker (July 31, 1906 – February 20, 1970) was a
United States Army officer, writer, lawyer, and businessman.
Biography
Crocker served as
Dean of
Golden Gate University School of Law
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from 1934 to 1941 when he resigned. Crocker was one of several
critics of the New Deal
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From the Left (Liberals to far left)
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* Huey Long. Governor and senator from Louisiana; supported Roosevelt in ...
and of
Franklin D. Roosevelt's foreign policy. During World War II, Crocker was an officer in the largest and longest Army
court-martial
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resulting from the
Fort Lawton Riot.
Crocker's ''Roosevelt's Road to Russia'' was published by
Henry Regnery Company (1959). Generally ignored by the New York/Washington establishment, it garnered favorable reviews in the ''
National Review'', ''
Modern Age
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'', ''
The Chicago Tribune'', and ''
The Boston Herald''. The
Council on Foreign Relations
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’ foreign policy journal
Foreign Affairs
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described the book as a “blisteringly critical but generally familiar review of F.D.R.'s wartime foreign policy.”
Crocker made claims that Roosevelt invariably backed
Stalin and went to great lengths to hide his position from the American public.
Crocker was also highly critical of Roosevelt's 1940
Republican opponent,
Wendell Willkie, a former Democrat. After Willkie's defeat, Crocker wrote:
The flighty Wendell Willkie ... suddenly 'got religion' and became an ebullient emissary for Roosevelt, traveling to London, Moscow, and Chungking in an Army transport plane, emotionally overcome by his precipitate arrival in the upper regions of international fame. His much publicized slogan 'One World', served well to cover up the real state of affairs. ... Whether other Republican leaders, such as Hoover and Taft, and dissident Democrats ... looked upon these antics of Wendell Willkie as those of an opportunistic hypocrite or an impressionable dupe, we know not. They oover and Taftthemselves had no hallucinations about a 'grand coalition of peoples, fighting a common war of liberation.'[George N. Crocker, ''Roosevelt's Road to Russia'', pp. 10-11]
Works
* ''Roosevelt's Road to Russia'' (Henry Regnery Company, 1959)
PDF
References
External links
''Roosevelt's Road to Russia''(PDF) at the
Ludwig von Mises Institute.
1906 births
1970 deaths
American anti-communists
United States Army officers
Lawyers from San Francisco
Golden Gate University faculty
20th-century American lawyers
20th-century American writers
20th-century American male writers
Military personnel from California
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