7 dic 1945 anni - The Forrestail Diaries
7 December 1945 Pg. 128-129
"...Bullitt, he said, kept telling Roosevelt that
the Germans wouldn't fight, Kennedy that
they would, and that they would overrun
Europe. Chamberlain, he says, stated that
America and the world Jews had forced
England into the war. In his telephone
conversation with Roosevelt in the summer of
1939 the President kept telling him to put
some iron up Chamberlain's backside."
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7 December 1945 Pg. 128-129
Played golf today with Joe Kennedy [Joseph P. Kennedy, who was Roosevelt's Ambassador to Great Britain in the years
immediately before the war]. I asked him about his conversations with Roosevelt and Neville Chamberlain from 1938 on. He said Chamberlain's position in 1938 was that England had nothing with which to fight and that she could not risk going to war with Hitler. Kennedy's view: That Hitler would have fought Russia without any later conflict with England if it had not been for Bullitt' s [William C. Bullitt, then Ambassador to France] urging on Roosevelt in the summer of 1939 that the Germans must be faced down about Poland; neither the French nor the British would have made Poland a case of war if it had not been for the constant needling from Washington. Bullitt, he said, kept telling Roosevelt that the Germans wouldn't fight, Kennedy that they would, and that they would overrun Europe. Chamberlain, he says, stated that America and the world Jews had forced England into the war. In his telephone conversation with Roosevelt in the summer of 1939 the President kept telling him to put some iron up Chamberlain's backside. Kennedy's response always was that putting iron up his backside did no good unless the British had some iron with which to fight, and they did not...
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