notyou2 wrote:There are a great deal of US people with German heritage. It was a very touchy subject at the time, but Pearl Harbor definitely clinched it.
yeah that was definitely convenient
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=t5 ... rbor&hl=en“The question the President posed to me today was how we should maneuver them (Japan) into the position of firing the first shot.” - Secretary of War Stimson, June 1941
"All the President's efforts to cause the Germans to declare war on us failed; the conditions we imposed upon Japan—to get out of China, for example—were so severe that we knew that nation could not accept them." - Vice-Admiral Beatty, May 1958
on December 10, 1941, the German Chancery wrote:He [Roosevelt] moved still closer to war in September 1940 when he transferred fifty American naval destroyers to the British fleet, and in return took control of military bases on British possessions in North and Central America. Future generations will determine the extent to which, along with all this hatred against socialist Germany, the desire to easily and safely take control of the British empire in its hour of disintegration may have also played a role.
As early as December 19, 1939, an American cruiser [the Tuscaloosa] that was inside the security zone maneuvered the [German] passenger liner Columbus into the hands of British warships. As a result, it had to be scuttled. On that same day, US military forces helped in an effort to capture the German merchant ship Arauca. On January 27, 1940, and once again contrary to international law, the US cruiser Trenton reported the movements of the German merchant ships Arauca, La Plata and Wangoni to enemy naval forces.
On April 15, 1939, Roosevelt made his famous appeal to us and Signore Mussolini, which was a mixture of geographical and political ignorance combined with the arrogance of a member of the millionaire class. We were called upon to make declarations and to conclude non-aggression pacts with a number of countries, many of which were not even independent because they had either been annexed or turned into subordinate protectorates by countries allied with Mr. Roosevelt.
