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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Immediate effect of this historic Roosevelt document was to cut the ground from under all previous thinking and talking about his foreign policy (see p. 13). It clarified once & for all the fact that Franklin Roosevelt positively expected war abroad unless some one's will-to-peace, as well as "the arms of the Democracies, was stronger than the Dictators' will-to-war. It tended to absolve Franklin Roosevelt from previous charges of "war-mongering." Whether or not his invitation was accepted-and his ten-year clause made acceptance look impossible-it kept open the way to some...
What the effect would be on the U. S. people and on Franklin Roosevelt's position as their leader, remained to be determined. As day followed day and no reply came from the Dictators (see p. 19), rejection by them, perhaps an insulting rebuff to Franklin Roosevelt, seemed certain. In that event, public opinion in the U. S. would form in one of two ways: behind him more strongly than ever as a champion who, having done his best for peace, must now do his best for the Democracies; or against him more strongly than ever as an international...
...President Roosevelt, by adopting a newspaper editorial as his own expression, explained and emphasized that his "we" meant Western civilization (see p...
...Secretary of State Hull came out in favor of Government-subsidized barter trade by the U. S., to whip the Dictators at their own economic game. Joseph P. Kennedy, Ambassador to Britain, received mention for barterer-in-chief...
...Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau foregathered with other fiscal officers to study ways & means of cushioning war's shock to U. S. security markets (see p...