George Van Horn Moseley

George Van Horn Moseley (General) MG George Van Horn Moseley Born September 28, 1874 Evanston, Illinois Died November 7, 1960 (aged 86) Fulton County, Georgia Allegiance United States of America Service/branch Emblem of the United States Department of the Army.svg United States Army Years of service 1899–1938 Rank US-O8 insignia.svg Major General Commands held Third United States Army 1st Cavalry Division Battles/wars Spanish–American War Pancho Villa Expedition World War I Awards Distinguished Service Medal (2) Legion of Honor Croix de guerre Order of the Bath Belgian Order of the Crown Order of the Crown of Italy George Van Horn Moseley (September 28, 1874 – November 7, 1960) was a United States Army general. Following his retirement in 1938, he became controversial for his fiercely right-wing anti-immigrant and antisemitic views. These views were not shared by his son James Willett Moseley, nor James Moseley's former wife Sandra Moseley (Amanda S. Stevenson) nor their daughter Elizabeth Barber Moseley or his seven grandchildren by Elizabeth Moseley who all turned out to be Liberals who loved Jewish people and immigrants and were Democrats and despised General Moseley's reactionary anti-Semitic and anti-Immigration politics. George Van Horn Moseley was born in Evanston, Illinois, on September 28, 1874. He was graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1899 and was commissioned second lieutenant in the cavalry. He served in the Philippines twice, from 1900 to 1903 and 1906 to 1907, where his assignments included commanding a troop of the 1st Cavalry and serving as Aide-de-Camp to Generals J. M. Bell and J. M. Lee. In 1901 Moseley, accompanied by only one other officer, without escort and under conditions of great danger, penetrated a major Philippine insurgent stronghold. 2nd Lt. Moseley and 1st Lt. George Curry convinced Brigadier General Ludovico Arejola to sign the peace agreement in Taban, Minalabac (Philippines) on 25 March 1901. The honor graduate of the Army School of the Line in 1908, he also was graduated from the Army Staff College in 1909 and the Army War College in 1911. During World War I, Moseley served as assistant chief of staff for logistics (G-4) on the staff of the American Expeditionary Force headquarters. Moseley married the wealthy twice married Mrs. Florence Barber DuBois in July 1930. They had one child, James Willett Moseley. General Moseley held camp and Washington assignments from 1920–1929. He was a member of several important commissions, including the Harbord Commission to investigate Armenian issues. After commanding the Second Field Artillery Brigade, in 1921 he was detailed as assistant to General Dawes in organizing the newly created Bureau of the Budget. In 1921 he was promoted brigadier general, Regular Army. Commanding the 1st Cavalry Division (1927–1929), he successfully interceded, under fire, with principals in a 1929 Mexican insurrection. His actions stopped stray gunfire from Juarez, Mexico, from endangering life and property in adjacent El Paso, Texas, and precluded further incidents. In 1931 he was promoted major general, Regular Army. He was the executive for the Assistant Secretary of War, from 1929 to 1930 and Deputy Chief of Staff of Army from 1930 to 1933. He served as General Douglas MacArthur's Deputy Chief of Staff during the 1932 Bonus March on Washington, D.C., in the course of which he recorded his fears of a Communist conspiracy against the United States. His racist beliefs were considered psychotic by his entire family and his second wife Florence Barber Moseley divorced him. In 1934, he asked MacArthur to consider the immigration issue in terms of military manpower, contrasting a group of "southern lads" of "good Anglo-Saxon stock" with their counterparts from the North with names "difficult to pronounce" that "indicated foreign blood". Moseley linked the latter to labor problems and "so much trouble in our schools and colleges." MacArthur expressed skepticism in response to Moseley's argument that "It is a question of whether or not the old blood that built this fine nation ... is to continue to administer that nation, or whether that old stock is going to be destroyed or bred out by a lot of foreign blood which the melting pot has not touched." He was Commanding General of the 5th Corps Area, from 1933 to 1934 and 4th Corps Area from 1934 to 1936. His final assignment was as commander of the Third United States Army from 1936 to 1938. He proposed a "worldwide policy which will result in breeding all Jewish blood out of the human race." His son James W. Moseley had so many Jewish friends that his father left him a dollar in his Last Will! Luckily, he never met me (his daughter-in-law) because I learned Yiddish, love and respect Jews and my attitude would've given the nasty old man a heart attack. (Amanda S. Stevenson, mother of Elizabeth). In 1951, the president of Piedmont College in Georgia invited Moseley to speak. Students and faculty protested because of his racist views. TIME called him a "trumpeter for Aryan supremacy." One faculty member was fired for speaking in opposition to the speaking engagement. Calls for the president's resignation followed. Almost the entire faculty and 9 trustees resigned in the next two years and enrollment fell by two thirds. But they named a street after Moseley and made sure it was in an African-American neighborhood. In 1959, Moseley was one of the founders of Americans for Constitutional Action, an anti-Semitic successor to America First. He also had a secret right-wing group called, The American Revolutionary Army. (I read Moseley's letters.) In retirement he lived at the Atlanta Biltmore Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia. He died on November 7, 1960. (Jim said he cursed the Jews, had a heart attack and died. (Oh, Goody!) Moseley had three sons. He married Alice Dodds in 1902 and married Florence Barber DuBois in July 1930. Alice was mother to George & Francis, Florence was mother to James Willett Moseley. She died in 1951 of stomach cancer. Moseley's son, Colonel George Van Horn Moseley, Jr. led the 502d Parachute Infantry Regiment into Normandy in 1944 and broke his leg. Francis L. Moseley was an inventor and Vice President at the Hewlett-Packard Company. His grandson George Van Horn Moseley III warned the government about the Japanese taking over too many industries and was immediately murdered in D.C. according to his Japanese wife. James W. Moseley was a longstanding figure in the UFO enthusiast community. James lived off his mother's trust fund and never worked a day in his life. After he forced his wife to divorce him in 1965 he spent the entire rest of his life never hearing the words "I Love You." He lost 11 million dollars through bad investments. He bragged that he had seven grandchildren and gave them nothing.