The international monetary policies of the New Deal may be divided into two decisive and determining actions, one at the beginning of the New Deal and the other at its end. The first was the decision, in early 1933, to opt for domestic inflation and monetary nationalism, a course that helped steer the entire world onto a similar path during the remainder of the decade. The second was the thrust, during World War II, to reconstitute an international monetary order, this time built on the dollar as the world’s “key” and crucial currency.

Introduction

The endeavors to mislead posterity about what really happened and to substitute a fabrication for a faithful recording are often inaugurated by the men who themselves played an active role in the events, and begin with the instant of their happening, or sometimes even precede their occurrence. To lie about historical facts and to destroy evidence has been in the opinion of hosts of statesmen, diplomats, politicians and writers a legitimate part of the conduct of public affairs and of writing history.

(Prepared by Richard Perry)

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BY JOHN T. FLYNN

Preface by Ronald Radosh

41 UNION SQUARE WEST, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10003

AS WE GO MARCHING

Copyright © 1944 by John T. Flynn. Published

by arrangement with Doubleday and Company, Inc.

Introduction copyright © 1973 by Ronald Radosh.

This edition published 1973 by Free Life Editions, Inc.

41 Union Square West, New York, N. Y. 10003

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 73-88237

ISBN: 0-914156-00-4

Manufactured in the United States of America

by Ronald Radosh

The former Presidential candidate for the American Independent Party remarked to The New York Times that he spent his nights reading John T. Flynn. The minority reactionary candidate in the 1972 election was undoubtedly referring to tracts made famous by Flynn in the early 1950’s, from the million seller The Road Ahead, condensed by the Reader’s Digest, to the McCarthyite diatribe, The Lattimore Story.

THIS BOOK is divided into three parts. One is about Italy, another about Germany, a third about the United States. But actually the book from beginning to end is about the United States. It has to do with the direction in which America has been drifting and in which she now moves with accelerated pace under the drive of war. When the war ends, in what direction will she go? Toward socialism or fascism? Or into some heroic struggle to reinstate the capitalist society? What socialism is, is fairly well understood. But this is not true of fascism.

AS WE GO MARCHING

FASCISM HAS ATTAINED to the dignity of a cuss word in America. When we disagree with a man’s social or political arguments, if we cannot reasonably call him a communist, we call him a fascist. The word itself has little more relation to its original and precise object than a certain well-beloved American expletive has to the harmless domestic animal it actually describes. But fascism is something more than a bad name.