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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Gordon W. Prange, At Dawn We Slept

3 posted on 07/31/2011 6:11:09 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

To: Homer_J_Simpson

William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

4 posted on 07/31/2011 6:12:21 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

To: Homer_J_Simpson; CougarGA7

From Prange, quoting Ickes:

"To embargo oil to Japan would be as popular a move in all parts of the country as you could make.
"There might develop from the embargoing of oil to Japan such a situation as would make it, not only possible but easy, to get into this war in an effective way.
And if we should thus indirectly be brought in, we would avoid the criticism that we had gone in as an ally of communistic Russia."

In his letter to FDR, Ickes is only repeating a small part of the advice already given by Naval Intelligence Commander Arthur McCollum, back in October of 1940.

These are some of the "smoking guns" which tell us just what President Roosevelt's administration was up to.

14 posted on 07/31/2011 4:38:14 PM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective....)

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