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Editor says, what if Franklin D. Roosevelt had died in 1939 before he could deceive America into abandoning neutrality? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s). This story was published in the September 2011 edition of Changing the Times Magazine.
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In 1941, in a controversial speech in Des Moines, Iowa on this day the 33rd President of the United States Charles A. Lindbergh accused British and Jewish "war agitators" of seeking to force a change of the isolationist government policy laid down by the Neutrality Acts signed into law by the late Franklin D. Roosevelt.
America FirstThe America First Party had high hopes that September 11th would go down in history as the day when America refused to be terrorized into war. But despite his broad agreement with these sentiments, his Press Secretary John T. Flynn had resigned the day before, being deeply troubled by the pointed anti-semitism contained in the speech.
Ironically, another individual who had no hesitation in blaming the Jews for the World Crisis was Lindbergh's chief antagonist. Because the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was confidently predicting that America would be dragged into the "gathering storm" - willing or not. Just in case they were not, Churchill had already formed British Security Co-ordination, sending three thousand British agents across the Atlantic to infiltrate Washington Society and reverse the US policy of isolationism.
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Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: Intrepid Source: Wikipedia Labels: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, Isolationism, Second World War, America. Editor says, in reality the events of Pearl Harbour stigmatized the Japanese as war agitators. Lindbergh called General Wood, who said of the president, "Well, he got us in [the war] through the back door. ..."
~ it took every ounce of influence FDR had to get lend lease and the peacetime draft through congress. Lend lease was pretty much what kept england and the USSR fighting past 1941. Lindbergh elected in 1940 pretty much kills both of those. Probably no oil embargo against the Japanese either, which at least delays pearl harbor for a year or two-probably. Japanese army was spoiling for a fight against the US (with absolutely no reason for confidence) and Japanese navy didn't feel safe taking out Malaysia, Singapore and the East Indies with a US-held Phillipines on their flank. Whenever war came, the US would have been even more unready than it was, and might be short of allies as well.
~ What Timothy said. However, Lindbergh's comments' alleged "anti-Semitism" does not address the question of were they true, or not?
~ Of course we were trying to get America into the war.Consider the alternative.I'd have sent aid to Britain but not Russia and not had a peacetime draft.
~ The Japanese did not particularly want to fight the USA so much as they wanted SE Asia to be all theirs and the USA presence in the Philippines made that problematic. The USA was scheduled to leave the P.I. soon after and let it develop as an 'independent' country under the same model used for Cuba, however FDR did everything he could to keep this from happening. If President Lindbergh withdraws the USA from the P.I. and lets the Japanese have the islands without a fight then they have no reason to go to war with the USA, especially if we are continuing to sell them scrap metal and petroleum.
~ The question is, how far and wide can Germany go before it self-destructs?
~ What if Roosevelt had died before he could DECEIVE America into abandoning neutrality?
Surely "persuade" would be a better term--and in then end, Pearl Harbor did that job for FDR. Or is the idea that in this timeline FDR was complicit in the the "day of infamy"?
Re Mark Taylor's remarks: if we hadn't aided Russia, very likely it would have fallen to the Nazis in 1942 or at the latest '43, leaving Hitler free to concentrate on England. And if we hadn't had a peacetime draft, we'd have had even less of an army when our turn came than we actually did. We might have ended up being forced to accept a peace with the Axis in 1945 or '46 which left Japan entrenched in mainland Asia and the South Pacific and the Nazis ruling Europe from the Channel to the Urals.
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