Fwd: Truth is the First Casualty of War
Brad De Long
delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU
Wed Jun 28 10:15:48 PDT 2000
>Seth Ackerman wrote:
>
>> "...the possibility that Roosevelt and the State Department planners had
>> specific plans for post-war Europe, mostly
>> based on perceived U.S. self-interest, which they were willing to pursue in
>> both savory and unsavory ways if need be.
>>
>> And that sometimes supporting fascists rather than local nationalists with
>> considerably greater moral and popular legitimacy was the most expedient way
>> to realize those plans."
>
glb wrote:
>In a letter to Secretary of State Cordell Hull in September, 1945
>(which made the front page in many newspapers), Roosevelt
>
>
>Right, Brad?
No.
Wrong.
FDR had been dead for nearly half a year by September 1945.
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