FDR helped bankrupt England with the lend lease deals at the outset of the war and his administration was riddled with Communist spies and sympathizers. Could it be a coincidence that he helped take down our closest ally while giving it away to our sworn enemy?
No, I don't think it was coincidental at all. FDR was as red as the baboon's tuchis and absolutely adored his uncle Joe. We're lucky we didn't have a hammer and sickle on top of the White House between 1933 and 1945.
England couldn't afford to buy what she needed, and the U.S. Congress didn't want to give them lots of stuff for free...Lend-Lease was a way to get them the stuff they needed. Would it have been better for the U.S. if the Nazis had conquered England?
Charles Peters, author of Five Days in Philadelphia, about Wendell Willkie and the 1940 campaign, was on C-SPAN yesterday. He talked at one point about Willkie's post-election trip to England and how he helped persuade Congress to vote for Lend-Lease.