A Career Worth Reviewing
The Life of Lieutenant General George Van Horn Moseley, Part 2

George Moseley (right) testifies before the Dies Committee on May 31, 1939. (Image source: Wikimedia Commons)

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Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)

The Crisis Years

The Roaring Twenties ended with a tremendous economic collapse which lasted for more than a decade. But all was not lost. Old-stock American patriots had been able to enact the 1924 Immigration Act, which cut off immigration and protected the demographic makeup of the country for the following 40 years. Those foreign whites who were alienated from American society returned home, and those who remained mostly assimilated save for the Jews. The existing racial problems were temporarily forgotten amidst breadlines, foreclosures, and the Dust Bowl.

George Moseley was also involved in one of the disasters of the Hoover administration: the removal of the Bonus Marchers from Anacostia Park in Washington, DC in the summer of 1932. The Bonus Marchers were a group of First World War veterans who were out of work and desperate. They were led by a man named Walter W. Waters, who had served in the war as a Sergeant and whose ancestors had fought in the American Revolution. The Bonus Marchers demanded early payment of the bonuses they had been promised when they enlisted. For reasons I cannot fathom, the Hoover administration refused to do this despite the fact that the economic situation was dire.

The particulars of what followed are murky. Accusations and counteraccusations were thrown at all involved. Many, allegedly including Moseley, thought that the Bonus Marchers were under the influence of the Bolsheviks. Eventually, the Hoover administration decided to use the US Army to remove the Bonus Marchers by force. The US Army’s then-Chief of Staff, Douglas MacArthur, personally led this distasteful effort. When the President realized how bad of a look the incident would be, he sent Lieutenant General Moseley to MacArthur with orders to stop the attack. MacArthur carried out the removal regardless.

MacArthur’s legendary insubordination was plain for all to see as early as 1932. Hoover decided not to make an issue out of him disobeying orders at that time because it would have demonstrated for all to see that his administration couldn’t control the military. The removal of the Bonus Marchers was one of many factors which doomed Hoover’s reelection chances.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in 1933 with a mandate to do “something” about the economic crisis. He injected socialist policies into the nation to “save capitalism.” In doing so, he made the best out of a bad situation. But after the Second World War, the economic inefficiencies that had been introduced by his policies started to be corrected.

Roosevelt was something of a white advocate. He was an old-stock American of mostly New England Yankee ancestry. His base of support consisted of Southern Protestant whites, and he could also rely on the Irish Catholic vote in the Northern US as well as considerable parts of the white electorate elsewhere. But Roosevelt also had many extremely Left-wing, pro-“civil rights” advocates in his inner circle, including his wife Eleanor. Roosevelt’s supporters also included outright Communists, many of whom supported the Soviet Union in various ways. Some of Roosevelt’s Leftist supporters were in fact paid spies for the Soviet Union, such as the Jew Samuel Dickstein, a Congressman who served on the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Roosevelt’s victory meant that genuine white advocates elsewhere were voted out of office since many opportunists in the Democratic Party were able to ride Roosevelt’s coattails into Congress. This included knocking Congressman Albert Johnson, who co-authored the 1924 Immigration Act, out of the House of Representatives. Although un-noticed at the time, cutting off genuine white advocates such as Johnson from elected office meant that their pro-white arguments and ideas atrophied. Additionally, malignant actors in elected offices were free to shape institutions through their hiring and firing policies.

Throughout this time, Moseley served in high-ranking jobs in the Army, commanding local “corps areas” in the continental United States. He eventually commanded the Third Army. Moseley was apolitical while on active duty and served his commander-in-chief faithfully. He was especially supportive of the Civilian Conservation Corps, where young men worked on projects across the country, such as drilling wells on the Western Prairie. As for the commander-in-chief, Roosevelt, he was a high-functioning sociopath hiding behind a façade of charm and warmth.

One interesting event occurred during this time that foreshadowed Moseley’s later break with President Roosevelt. On September 4, 1935, an astrologer named Marian Tetreau wrote Eleanor Roosevelt a letter in which she claimed that Lieutenant General Moseley was backed by “prominent financiers” who hoped to install Moseley as dictator if he was made the Army’s Chief of Staff. FDR took the information with a grain of salt but directed the FBI’s chief, J. Edgar Hoover, to investigate. FDR orders to Hoover dated September 26, 1935, stated:

I think, of course, that there is nothing to this but I am inclined to think there is something that you should look into for the lady.

By the end of October 1935, both the FBI and Roosevelt concluded that the accusations were meritless, however it should be noted that Roosevelt certainly felt a sense of danger emanating from prominent Old-Stock Americans rather than immigrant Bolsheviks or ethnonationalist Jews. For his part, Moseley was concerned about refugees from Europe, often Jews or Bolsheviks, fleeing the consequences of their own revolutions.

Moseley’s Truly Important Work

Moseley retired from the Army in October of 1938, and he entered politics with his retirement speech in which he said:

We have merely to vote increased government responsibility for our individual lives, increased government authority over our daily habits, and the resultant Federal paternalism will inevitably become dictatorship.

Moseley’s statements don’t seem so radical from a post–Reagan administration vantage point, however the Roosevelt administration saw the comments as an attack.

Moseley was merely honestly facing the conditions as they existed, however. By the late 1930s Moseley had served in four different types of conflict, the Yankee-Hispanicized Tagalog part of the Philippine Insurrection which was honorably waged and fairly concluded. He’d seen the vicious Pulahan rebellion on Samar and fought a battle in Leyte. He was aware of the sub-Saharan problems in the military, he understood the problems between the Christian and Islamic worlds by seeing the conflicts in the Philippines and Armenia. He was near Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution and recognized that ethnonationalist Jews were the key drivers of the bloodshed. Both Elizabeth Dilling and William Dudley Pelly noticed this also. He was also aware of immigration issues and had read Madison Grant’s books.

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Moseley’s career as an activist for his own people came at a time when most of the media was supportive of President Roosevelt and controlled by Jews. At the same time, the media had successfully shed its reputation for Yellow Journalism and appeared ethical and objectively neutral. The journalists were not truthful, but the pretense was widely believed until President Nixon’s second term. The media was also restricted to a limited number of outlets who summarized Moseley’s ideas through a liberal Jewish filter.

As a result, Moseley’s full statements had to be distributed through various pro-white networks with high printing and postage costs and it was difficult for a causal reader to stumble upon his ideas and become converted. Moseley’s papers are at the Library of Congress, but he has no biography. Most of the internet accessible copies of his work are summations of his ideas made by hostile ethnonationalist Jewish groups such as the Anti-Defamation League.

His most important statement upon becoming a white advocate was made on 1 June 1938 to the Dies Committee at the Capital. Moseley was able to make this statement through the help of Congressman Jacob Thorkelson of Montana who fully understood the Jewish Problem. The members of the Committee were hostile from the get-go. Mosley explained his activism which can be summarized thusly:

The problems facing the United States in 1939 was, “…the battle for honorable peace and the elimination of the campaign of international hate,” as well as “the battle within our gates at home to overcome…subversive influences…”

For the rest of his statement, Moseley laid out how the organized Jewish community supported the Bolsheviks and wherever the Bolsheviks took power, such as in Hungary in 1919, bloodshed and bad government followed. He cited mainstream media articles and government reports from several European countries. He also included some of his correspondence to demonstrate his motives and intellectual journey. In a letter Mosley wrote on April 21, 1939 to Brigadier General Walter A. DeLamater he wrote:

Initially I never mentioned the word, ‘Jew’, in any statement, except once in New York City, (actually in Indianapolis, Indiana) when I made an appeal to the Jews to help us lick. Communism. From that moment they have attacked me at every turn in the road. In their publications they call me a Fascist, something I am not; and as far as I know, I have never seen a Fascist. I belong to no organization. The Jews ‘have forced’ me to discuss the problem of the Jew in self-defense. They are doing everything in their power in an effort to intimidate me and force me into the camp of their enemies.

The members of the Dies Committee listened to Moseley’s remarks and then struck them from the Congressional record. In doing so, Moseley’s ideas were fully suppressed. His remarks were only able to get out through expensive printing and mailings and then only to people who already understood the issue.

The Second World War

Obviously, Moseley’s attempt took keep America out of the Second World War failed miserably. The isolationists were finally outmaneuvered when the Japanese attacked the American fleet in Hawaii. It is certain that the Roosevelt sought to “make an incident,” but the Japanese did choose to attack. Additionally, Hitler’s Germany declared war on the United States, had Germany not declared war, it is possible that war resources set to Britian would have ceased and America would have only fought in the Pacific.

Two of Moseley’s oldest sons (the ones by Alice) served in the War. Francis joined the Signal Corps, then switched to the Army Air Corps and became a pilot, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Moseley’s son George commanded the 502nd US Parachute Infantry Regiment and jumped into Normandy. He was injured in the jump, so he commanded the regiment from a wheelbarrow pushed by his bodyguards. He was partially portrayed by John Wayne in the film The Longest Day. John Wayne’s character was a composite of several actual people.

Moseley was a public political enemy to the Roosevelt administration, however two of his sons served as officers under Roosevelt’s command in the conflict in dangerous roles. This fact emphasizes the political genius of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. Eleanor, for example, was able to blunt Moseley’s message with kindness. In a letter to Moseley dated 5 September 1946, she wrote,

I think you are unfair to the Jewish people. There are, of course, lower class Jews who because of persecution and difficulties of survival, have developed certain traits of character which are hard for us, who have had easier lives, to accept. However, I know many Jews who are far more disinterested citizens and who take more interest in education and the arts in their communities than many people of other religions and nationalities. They are by far the most responsive to appeals for welfare and civic interests. It is true that you can find Jews in all the bad situations you speak of, but you can also find Gentiles. The division is pretty equal. I disagree with you because I believe our strength in this country has come from the great difference in back grounds which have been assimilated here into a type which is an American type.

Eleanor is obviously naïve. However, she was able to outmaneuver Moseley’s warnings with the assertation that Jews had assimilated, and she did this as though she was talking to a beloved grumpy older brother.

“Civil Rights” and the Radicals of the Establishment

The sub-Saharan enlisted men of the segregated 24th US Infantry went on a rampage in Japan just prior to shipping out to Korea – where the regiment did so poorly that it was recommended to be disbanded. Moseley would have known there was a risk for this behavior and had previously warned about using large numbers of sub-Saharan troops.

Meanwhile Moseley kept working on pro-white activities. By this time, immigration was not an issue since the 1924 restrictions were in place, however “civil rights” was becoming a problem as well as communist subversion during the Cold War. In the early 1950s, Moseley supported the “draft MacArthur” for president movement. His support explains why the organized Jewish community was so alarmed by MacArthur in the early 1950s. If MacArthur did become president in 1952, then he would have had a base of supporters who were aware of the Jewish Problem, and they would have gone on to jobs in various agencies – thereby reducing the malignant Jewish control of the American government considerably. Moseley did know the man elected president in 1952 – Dwight Eisenhower – but there is no evidence Eisenhower was swayed by his ideas.

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After MacArthur decided to “never die” and just “fade away.” Moseley attempted to shift the liberal “civil rights” culture in universities by teaming up with the Wealthy Texan George Washington Armstrong (1866 – 1954) to give talks and donations.

The Moseley – Armstrong team made little headway throughout the 1950s. The “civil rights” supporters and Zio-Leftists formed a cohesive group which captured the highpoints of society, advancing behind the cover of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Protestant White Southerner and Catholic Irish supporters. The New Deal Establishment had also created a youth wing of compliant Leftist pseudo-rebels who dominated culture by the late 1940s. Moseley’s talks were protested, and Armstrong’s money was returned. Cancel culture was fully in place by 1951.

Moseley continued to support segregation throughout his remaining days. He had the same views as the white advocate Earnest Sevier Cox on Latin Americans. He viewed them as whites, just not Anglo-Saxons. His ideas on that count should be revisited, there really isn’t a “Black-Hispanic” coalition and many “Hispanics” are as white as any other European. Moseley also worked in other groups including the Americans for Constitutional Action, which supported conservative causes, but made little headway in breaking down the Zionist and “civil rights” paradigm.

The Flying Saucer Craze and the Dispossessed Majority

Moseley’s two oldest sons were serious men who saw their duty and did it throughout their lives. The children of Moseley’s older sons were also serious people who accomplished much in their respective lives and who also went on to have families of their own. Moseley’s youngest son by his second wife, “James W. “Jim” Moseley, had an interesting career, to put it mildly. While his career was not the cause of the ongoing dispossession of American whites, the field in which he labored was due to the dispossession, at least in part.

In his autobiography, co-written with Karl T. Pflock, Jim didn’t say much about his father other than the fact the man knew Eisenhower, had received a letter on US government stationary cautioning him about his political statements while drawing an army pension, and his father had separated from his mother shortly after he was born. Jim’s mother passed away when he was just nineteen and she left him so much money he didn’t need to work. After getting tired of “recreational drinking,” Jim became interested in antiquities and flying saucers, or “Unidentified Flying Objects” (UFOs).

In 1953, Jim wrote a series of “Philosophical Outlines,” the seventh of which was related to the “flying saucer” craze which started in 1947, when a private pilot saw fast moving objects that looked like saucers. Jim believed that given the number of stars with planets it was likely that other worlds contain intelligent life, and it was only a matter of time before individuals from such worlds traveled into space. He further reasoned that 25% of the flying saucers seen by the public were genuine.

So, Jim dedicated his life to researching UFOs. He documented the mass sightings, called “flaps,” in a ‘zine called Saucer News. In the mid-1960s, just as the craze seemed to be on the way of being a faddish a relic of the 1950s, it took off again – with embellishments – including the tales of abductions, obviously dubious explanations from the government about “swamp gas,” a flying saucer crash in Roswell, New Mexico, and spin off stories about Mothman, Bigfoot, and other creatures.

Jim became an expert on UFO sightings and other mysteries, but his investigations were tainted by cynicism and immaturity on his part. He feuded with a UFO researcher named George Adamski, who saw the phenomenon from a religious point of view that ran close to the theology of Theosophy. During the feud, Jim sent fake letters to Adamski about UFOs allegedly from “the government” that purported to confirm what Adamski believed. Adamski thought the letters were real and he showed them to prove his theories. Jim used Adamski’s response to the letters to demonstrate the latter’s credulity. Jim also created a fake UFO film to use as part of his lectures.

Jim hosted well-attended conferences for UFO enthusiasts which occasionally drew television celebrities. Eventually, the UFO researchers, abductees, and eyewitnesses became celebrities in their own right. In 1976, Jim created a ‘zine called Saucer Smear which investigated the phenomenon and provided information and gossip about the personalities in the movement. The ‘zine ran until his death in 2012.

Jim was a liberal Democrat. He disliked the segregationist governor of Georgia, Lester Maddox, for example and he seemed to not recognize racial differences in crime or IQ that brought about the political demand for people like Governor Maddox. He also implied that George Adamski was an “anti-Semite” during his feud with the man. In other words, UFOlogy etherized American whites while genuinely hostile races cut into white society. Jim’s career was an amusement which missed out on far more serious concerns.

Throughout the time that Jim investigated flying saucers and gossiped about his colleagues, a mostly Jewish New Left bombed and burned buildings, the Israelis attacked the USS Liberty, Jews such as Jonathan Pollard passed classified information to Israel, and American Marines were bombed in Beirut because they were sent to give Israel a strategic victory in a conflict Israel couldn’t win. Jews also pressured lawmakers to relax immigration controls to the point every migrant is now part of a genocide just by crossing the border. Lax immigration also allowed for 9-11 which gave the opportunity to Israel First Jews to stampede America into war. Of the two Moseleys, George was certainly the more serious man.

The Great Replacement & the Incompetent Military

George Van Horn Mosely was the last of a breed. He was part of a generation of career military men who learned from officers who served in the Civil War. He served at the tail end of the Indian Wars, and he fought in an army that won a difficult insurgency as well as a World War against the greatest military power in Europe.

Moseley shaped the leaders who “won” World War II for the United States. Since, 1945 however, the American military has been a disappointment. The Americans withdrew in humiliation from Saigon in 1975 and Kabul in 2021. Other deployments have been unnecessary debacles, such as those to Somalia and Iraq. Perhaps the most shameful episode was the military’s inability to provide law and order during the Antifa/BLM rebellion in 2020. In 2024, the American military was again humiliated when a floating pier on the beach of Gaza was damaged during an ordinary storm.

There are many reasons for this downward trend. One possible reason is the Jewish establishment’s reaction to the career of George Van Horn Moseley. Every type of government runs the risk of being overthrown its military. One way to prevent this is to have a military made of foreign soldiers – such as the Janissary Corps of the Ottoman Empire. While this policy can work on the domestic scene, the policy fails when such an army is facing a real enemy.

The Philippine Insurrection was won, in part because the elite of both nations were able to come to an accommodation which amounted to an agreement between Old-Stock Americans with roots in New England and Hispanicized Tagalog Filipinos. The Old-Stock American officers were able to work out an acceptable compromise because they sat comfortably within American culture and were part of the same ethic group as the American political elite and most of the enlisted soldiers. They understood the hearts, minds, and aspirations of those in their society. The same could be said for the Hispanicized Tagalog leaders.

It’s not that way today. American senior leaders claim, at least, to be baffled by “white rage.” Moseley’s political activism created a demand on the part of the liberal-minority-Jewish hostile political elite to put foreign mercenaries in top spots. Consider the following senior officers; Colin Powell (Jamaican), John Shalikashvili (Georgian), Eric Shinseki (Japanese). Colin Powell described his alienation from whites in his autobiography, the others must have felt their foreignness also. An institution which is infected with this virus will have senior leaders who don’t identify with the historical American cavalrymen on the frontier posts but can be compliant warriors for a hostile elite to be used against the population.

Bibliography

James R. Arnold, The Moro War: How American Battled a Muslim Insurgency in the Philippine Jungle, 1902-1913 (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2011)

Henry Blaine Davis, Jr., Generals in Khaki (Raleigh, N. C.: Pentland Press, Inc., 1998

John Morgan Gates, Schoolbooks and Krags (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, Inc., 1973)

Madison Grant, The Passing of the Great Race, or The Racial Basis of European History (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1918)

Frederic Cople Jaher, Review of Anti-Semitism in the American Army by Joseph W. Bendersky, Reviews in American History 30, no. 1 (2002): 132–35

Brian McAllister Linn, The Philippine War 1899-1902, (Lawrence, Kans.: University of Kansas Press, 2000)

Brian McAllister Linn, “The Pulahan Campaign: A Study in US Pacification,” War in History 6, no. 1 (1999): 45–71

George Van Horn Moseley, Mandatory Over Armenia, Document No. 281 (1919)

James W. Moseley & Karl T. Pflock, Shockingly Close to the Truth!: Confessions of a Grave-Robbing Ufologist (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Publishing, 2002)

Robert D. Ramsey III, A Masterpiece of Counterguerrilla Warfare: BG Franklin Bell in the Philippines, 1901-1902 (Fort Leavenworth, Kans.: Combat Studies Institute Press, US Army Combined Arms Center, 2007)