Marching Orders: The Untold Story of How the American Breaking of the Japanese Secret Codes Led to the Defeat of Nazi Germany and Japan

by Bruce Lee

William C. Bullit, who had been sent by Roosevelt to be America’s first ambassador to the Soviet Union in 1933, warns the President in three lengthy letters during 1943 that Stalin was not to be trusted.8 Reading these letters fifty years after they were written sends chills up and down one’s spine. Said Bullit: … The extraordinary valor with which the peoples of the Soviet Union have fought against the Nazis has rendered the Russians so popular in both the United States and Great Britain that all possible virtues are being attributed to the Soviet Government, and both basic Russian Nationalistic policy and the Soviet Communist policy are being overlooked.… The reality is that the Soviet Union, up to the present time, has been a totalitarian dictatorship in which there has been no freedom of speech, no freedom of the press, and a travesty of freedom of religion; in which there has been universal fear of the O.G.P.U. and Freedom