Stopped short of false claims

The average guy or girl might want to know, what were we reeling from?

How was it relevant to the blogs you were writing?

Well, Antara was trying to put together the narrative of what led up to World War II, and it had not been a pretty experience till now, she could assure everyone of that.

Why not, you'd ask? Was it because of Hiroshima-Nagasaki, the atom bombs dropped on Japan? Antara didn't know enough about the Japanese surrender to answer that question.

But it was clear that David KE Bruce (OSS) blackmail had been a surprise, it had been pulled too close to the end of WWII. It made the D-Day landings, and the subsequent fighting at Normandy and the Bocage just one more episode in the World War, not the definitive one. 

All wars end someday, what was the meaning of that act of triumphalism where the basic strategy was to hurl endless men into incessant gunfire?

ii. There was good reason why Antara had brought up the Shabbos Goy and the two teachers (World Bank-normalista) he had possibly recruited around 1993. 

Both the teachers supposedly enacted the David KE Bruce (OSS) blackmail, it was impossible for Antara to understand the implications, given David KE Bruce was not a known or familiar topic.

For example, at the end of every term exam in school, 'normalista' would be the last to hand over the corrected answer-scripts before the report cards were finalised. She would be a sight, hair dishevelled, clutching dozens of answer-scripts to her chest, some checked, others not, telling the students, "I'd make it, don't worry". Well, what choice did you have, which schoolteacher got away without turning in the corrected answer-scripts?

Unless someone passed away while in office, 'in harness' as they called it, as had happened with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his corrected or uncorrected work would no longer be available. FDR might have felt that a lot of Communist US officials were passing through his office and while some were obviously on the Stalin/Soviet mode, there were others who were not.

It made the relation between the White House and the legit lease a disturbing one, for BT might have provided all the support to the White House but the other side was failing him, and not always deliberately.

At the least, the White House ought to have informed BT about what kind of Communists were coming for his son, the young Ajit. It would have made the legit lease less precarious, as then, so now.

Now imagine David KE Bruce of OSS discussing the various kinds of Communist US officials, no matter where (and if) he was questioned. 

"Forget OSS', his interrogators would say, "there's only one intelligence problem in the world, World War III, everything about it was known, it would be fought without the lease". 

(In case WWIII was the War on Terror 2001-2021, it was also fought without Antara knowing the 'narrative'.)

"Now", they'd tell David KE Bruce, "why don't you discuss all the officials you've seen pass through the White House in DC".

June 1, 2025.