[yarddog]

That was either an incredibly naive statement or a real clever one.

I suspect FDR was more clever than naive.

I always thought FDR was better than many on the right have portrayed him, thinking that he simply didn't see through Stalin etc.

Within the last couple of years the evidence keeps piling up that he was a knowing Commie sypathizer

[Tailgunner Joe]

When Averell Harriman criticized FDR's betrayal of our Chinese allies at Yalta FDR responded "other matters more important, the establishment of the United Nations, for example."

FDR needed Stalin's cooperation to implement his "Global New Deal."