Roosevelt and Neville Chamberlain: Two Appeasers
1973; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 28; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1177/002070207302800202
ISSN2052-465X
Autores Tópico(s)Intelligence, Security, War Strategy
Resumoof so manoeuvring the United States that it was committed to war in Europe without the American people being aware of what was going on. His defenders retorted by depicting him as a man who saw what was happening in Europe and tried to lead the American people to see and understand what was happening, while using all the powers available to his office to prepare the United States for the ordeal which lay ahead of it. His detractors saw him as a super Machiavelli, always intriguing, evil. His defenders saw him as an all-wise and all-seeing father figure. Seen from Europe Roosevelt looked rather different. To the French he was for a long time their ace in the hole. When everything went wrong, he would intervene to save them. Just how exaggerated their hopes were can be seen in the appeals for intervention French Premier Paul Reynaud directed to him in the dark days of the fall of France. The British saw him differently. To some he was basically on their side against European fascism more so than their own government. To others, like Churchill, he was the United States' leader and Britain's friend. To the British
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