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Endnotes ‘ Stimson, Henry L. and Bundy, McGeorge, On Active Service in Peace and War, Harper, 1947. > "Hearings Regarding Shipments of Atomic Materials to the Soviet Union during World War II", Testimony of General Groves, December 7, 1949, House of Representatives Committee on Un- American Activities, USGovernment Printing Office, USA, p. 941. ‘ibid., p. 945. id., p. 900. Sibid., p. 948. *ibid., p. 947. ’"Hearings...", Testimony of Hermann H. Rosenberg, January 24, 1950, p. 1035. ‘"Hearings...", General Groves, p. 954. ° Sherwood, Robert E., Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History, Harper, 1948, p. 560. "Hearings...", General Groves, p. 947. "Deane, John R., The Strange Alliance, Viking, 1947, p. 89. Copies of the book, From Major Jordan's Diaries, are available from NEXUS Magazine. Cost: $37.50 (includes p&h) PO Box 30, Mapleton Qld 4560 Tel: (07) 5442 9280 (4 lines) Fax: (07) 5442 9381 email: nexus@peg.apc.org http:/Awww.peg.apc.org/~nexus/ they could work together—and that was _ state, Winston Churchill, "was conducting that."” this correspondence on the atomic project Another effort to clear Hopkins was with Hopkins rather than with the based on the supposition that he acted in _ President, and that he continued to do so ignorance of what it was all about. Evenif for many months thereafter". he helped the Russians to get A-bomb A witness on the topic, General Groves materials, the implication ran, it was the testified that to the best of his recollection unsuspecting tool of Soviet cunning. and belief he never met Harry Hopkins, The Hopkins papers for Mr Sherwood's book were organized by Hopkins’ longtime friend, Sidney Hyman. A fortnight after my first broadcast he was quoted as affirm- ing that, until Hiroshima, Harry Hopkins had not "the faintest understanding of the Manhattan Project" and "didn't know the difference between uranium and gerani- um". On the contrary, Harry Hopkins was one of the first men anywhere to know about the atom bomb. Dr Vannevar Bush chose 1942; Mr Roosevelt ordered that preferen- Hopkins as his intermediary for presenting tial position, in the matter of munitions, to Mr Roosevelt the idea of the atom bomb. Should be given to the Soviet Union over It was in consultation with Hopkins that Dr all other Allies and even the armed forces Bush drafted the letter, for Mr Roosevelt's of the United States. Then and there, signature, which launched the A-bomb decided the former chief of the US Military operation on June 14, 1941! Where do we Mission to Moscow, was "the beginning of learn this? In the official biography by Mr a policy of appeasement of Russia from Sherwood, on pages 154 and 155. Finally, which we have never recovered and from on page 704 we are told that the head of a which we are still suffering"... talked with him on the telephone, or exchanged letters or dealt with anyone claiming to represent him. But the General thought it incumbent to remark, "I do know, of course, that Mr Hopkins knew about this project. I know that."”” An early symptom of White House obsession for 'reassuring Stalin' has been described by General Deane. In letters to American war agencies, dated March 7, co NEXUS - 91 — The Explosive Secrets of Major Jordan's Diaries — Cost: $37.50 (includes p&h) FEBRUARY - MARCH 1997