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To: jamaksin
Agreed, The New Dealer's War is very good.

I would also point to:

Felix Wittmer's The Yalta Betrayal from 1953, and

Mark Willey's Pearl Harbor - The Mother of all Conspiracies released in 1999. Willey's posited that the United States entry into WWII - by provoking Japanese - was really to save Stalin and the USSR.

In The New Dealer's War Flemming says that FDR was an anglophobe, and that FDR had the Navy harassing U-boats "throughout the summer of 1941." But he never gives the date of the German invasion of the USSR, so I had to look it up--June 22, 1941. IOW, the very first day of "the summer of 1941."
325 posted on 09/01/2003 7:29:13 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The everyday blessings of God are great--they just don't make "good copy.")
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion
Just to extend your "summer" date:

A. FDR meets Churchill in August 1941 (Placentia Bay) and they issue the Atlantic Charter. Note: (1) The United States is a neutral country at the time, (2) The US Navy convoying of British shipping is an act of war, (3) FDR commits the United States to armed support [the make war versus declare war comment] to the British and Dutch in the Far East IN EXCHANGE for their ceasing to ship oil to Japan. The deal - if the Japanes advance beyond the Isthmus of Kra, the US will fight. Note that NO US terrority is involved here.

B. Congress is not aware of (A) - and the details of this deal do come out until the Pearl Harbor investigations after WWII has ended.

C. The Japanese, now realizing that all oil has been cut-off, decides to fight recognizing full well that it is national suicide.

D. Finally, the Pearl Harbor attack was NOT a surprise attack - See Farago's The Broken Seal (paperback edition), viz., its Postscript section.

E. Congress before/after WWII was solidly in the hands of the Democratic Party - where FDR was/is their savior!

Enough said ... the truth about FDR remains to be told.

329 posted on 09/01/2003 8:27:29 AM PDT by jamaksin
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