During this entire time, FDR pretty much had his finger up his a==.
I don't know what more he could have done to influence the course of events. The U.S. was a potential super power at the time. The actualization was a few years off.
11 posted on 08/19/2009 6:56:31 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))