George N. Crocker was a United States Army

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 officer

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, author

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, lawyer

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 and businessman.

Biography

Crocker served as Dean

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 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

Critics of the New Deal

- From the Left :* Carter Glass, Senator from Virginia, came from his death bed to the 1940 Democratic Convention to nominate Franklin Roosevelt's campaign manager James Farley as the Democratic Party's candidate for the Presidency...

 and of Franklin D. Roosevelt

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'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

Fort Lawton Riot

”The largest and longest U.S. Army court-martial of World War II took place at Seattle's Fort Lawton. 43 U.S. soldiers, all of them African-American, were charged with rioting; three were also charged with the lynching death of an Italian prisoner of war named Guglielmo Olivotto.Some resources ...

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Crocker was the author of Roosevelt's Road to Russia, published by Henry Regnery Company (1959). Ignored by the New York/Washington establishment it garnered favorable reviews in the National Review

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, Modern Age

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, The Chicago Tribune and The Boston Herald. In it, Crocker made claims that Roosevelt invariably backed Stalin and went to great lengths to hide this from the American

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public.

External links

• Roosevelt's Road to Russia (HTML)
• Roosevelt's Road to Russia (PDF)