[Former Proud Canadian]

Someone should dig out the footage of Hitler mocking this letter in front of the party faithful. He took particular glee, with appropriate responses, as he ticked off the nations that Roosevelt had mentioned: Finland, Estonia, Latvia...et al. Howling laughter ensured when he mentioned Great Britain, Iran.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Someone should dig out the footage of Hitler mocking this letter in front of the party faithful.

I don't have footage but Shirer gives a fascinating eyewitness account which I will reproduce on the anniversary of Hitler's Reichstag speech - April 28th.

[dfwgator]

Someone should dig out the footage of Hitler mocking this letter in front of the party faithful. He took particular glee, with appropriate responses, as he ticked off the nations that Roosevelt had mentioned: Finland, Estonia, Latvia...et al. Howling laughter ensured when he mentioned Great Britain, Iran.

Mussolini attributed the letter to "infantile paralysis."

[Southack]

"Someone should dig out the footage of Hitler mocking this letter in front of the party faithful. He took particular glee, with appropriate responses, as he ticked off the nations that Roosevelt had mentioned: Finland, Estonia, Latvia...et al. Howling laughter ensured when he mentioned Great Britain, Iran."

Hitler was unknowingly mocking his own death and the end of his Reich.

6 decades later, Saddam Hussein likewise mocked President Bush's offer of peace to Iraq...unknowingly mocking his own death and the end of Ba'ath Party rule.

In both instances, the above is due to a fundamental ignorance of American Exceptionalism.

The rest of the world still doesn't get us. They are accustomed to offers of peace either being tricks, or cries of weakness.

And vast numbers of their people die in vain because of that lack of education.