"Appeasement" is the flavor of the week at The Times. This makes at least two news items and an editorial that have highlighted the word since Sunday. Too bad Limbaugh wasn't around to do one of his montages.
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At this stage, old Joe was an appeaser, like Chamberlain, and got along very well with the Brits.
In due time, with appeasement having failed, and war erupted, Kennedy became a defeatist, a pacifist, anti-war, anti-semitic and most bitterly anti-Roosevelt.
Quoting from Perisco, "Roosevelt's Secret War":
Churchill's son, Randolf, remarked of the American ambassador's defeatism: "We had reached the point of bugging potential traitors and enemies. Joe Kennedy, the American ambassador, came under electronic surveillance."
Of course, that was in 1940, still a lifetime away from December of 1938...