George Howard Earle III

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George Howard Earle III : biography

05 December 1890 – 30 December 1974

George Howard Earle III (December 5, 1890December 30, 1974) was an American politician. He was a member of the prominent Earle family. Earle served as the U.S. Minister to Austria from 1933 to 1934, and as the 30th Governor of Pennsylvania from January 15, 1935 to January 17, 1939.

Life

In 1943, when Earle was a United States Navy Lieutenant Commander and the President’s special emissary to the Balkans, he

In 1944, FDR assigned Earle to compile information on the Katyń massacre, the massacre of the Polish intelligentsia by the Soviet government. Earle did so, using contacts in Bulgaria and Romania, and concluded that the Soviet Union was guilty.

After consulting with Elmer Davis, the director of the Office of War Information, Roosevelt rejected Earle’s conclusion, saying that he was convinced of the responsibility of Nazi Germany, and ordered Earle’s report suppressed. When Earle formally requested permission to publish his findings, the President gave him a written order to desist. Earle was reassigned and spent the rest of World War II in American Samoa.Fischer, Benjamin B., "[https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/winter99-00/art6.html The Katyn Controversy: Stalin’s Killing Field]", Studies in Intelligence, Winter 1999-2000

After the war, Ambassador Ralph Earle II is his son.