Franklin D. Roosevelt: "I Hate War" Speech at Chautauqua, New York - Part 2 (1936)

August 14, 1936 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812970497?ie=UTF8&tag=doc06-20&link... Watch the full film: http://thefilmarchived.blogspot.com/2010/09/franklin-d-roosevelt-i-hate-war-s...

In October 1938, Roosevelt opened secret talks with the French on how to bypass American neutrality laws and allowed the French to buy American aircraft to make up for productivity deficiencies in the French aircraft industry. Roosevelt in turn had been much influenced by an October 1938 report by the American Ambassador to France William Bullitt that the French Premier Édouard Daladier stated to him that "If I had three or four thousand aircraft Munich would never have happened." In November 1938, Jean Monnet secretly arrived in Washington with a commission at once to buy 1,000 American warplanes for the French Air Force. A major problem in the Franco-American talks was how the French were to pay for the American planes, and how to bypass the American neutrality acts In addition, the Johnson Act of 1934 which forbade loans to the nations that had defaulted on their World War I debts was a further complicating factor (France had defaulted on its World War I debts in 1932). On January 28, 1939, a French Air Force officer was injured in a Los Angeles crash involving a prototype of a DB-7 bomber, which led to the disclosure of the secret Franco-American talks. This revelation provoked a major isolationist uproar against Roosevelt, which led to the Senate Military Affairs Committee probing the Franco-American talks. Because of isolationist opposition in Congress, Roosevelt made a series of contradictory statements to the American people in the winter of 1939 warning that France and Britain were America's "first line of defence" who required American aid and alternatively claiming he was only following an isolationist foreign policy that would do nothing to involve the United States in a war. Roosevelt's contradictory statements did much to increase Hitler's contempt for him as a weak and vacillating leader, which in turn governed Hitler's assessement of the United States. In February 1939, to pay for the planes, the French offered to cede their possessions in the Caribbean and the Pacific together with a lump sum payment of ten billion francs, in exchange for the unlimited right to buy on credit American aircraft. After torturous negotiations, an arrangement was worked out in the spring of 1939 allowing the French to place huge orders with the American aircraft industry; though most of the aircraft ordered had not arrived in France by 1940, Roosevelt arranged in June 1940 for French orders to be diverted to the British.

When World War II broke out in 1939, Roosevelt rejected the Wilsonian neutrality stance and sought ways to assist Britain and France militarily. He began a regular secret correspondence with the First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill in September 1939 discussing ways of supporting Britain. Roosevelt forged a close personal relationship with Churchill, who became Prime Minister of Britain in May 1940.

In April 1940 Germany invaded Denmark and Norway, followed by invasions of the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France in May. The German victories in Western Europe left Britain vulnerable to invasion. Roosevelt, who was determined that Britain not be defeated, took advantage of the rapid shifts of public opinion. The fall of Paris shocked American opinion, and isolationist sentiment declined. A consensus was clear that military spending had to be dramatically expanded. There was no consensus on how much the U.S. should risk war in helping Britain. In July 1940, FDR appointed two interventionist Republican leaders, Henry L. Stimson and Frank Knox, as Secretaries of War and the Navy respectively. Both parties gave support to his plans to rapidly build up the American military, but the isolationists warned that Roosevelt would get the nation into an unnecessary war with Germany. He successfully urged Congress to enact the first peacetime draft in United States history in 1940 (it was renewed in 1941 by one vote in Congress). Roosevelt was supported by the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, and opposed by the America First Committee.

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[FrenchPropagandaV1RR]

Europe's troubles did more to rescue the United States from the Great Depression than all the endeavours of THIS LIAR. In 1939, the US gross domestic product was still below its 1929 level. The outbreak of the Second World War brought a dramatic surge of foreign investment, as the United Kingdom and France placed huge orders in the US for goods and commodities, then, when Congress relented, for arms.

This lackey of the international poison of people

[1madaboutguitar]

Liar Liar pants on fire!

[DragonSparkLacrimosa]

@FrenchPropagandaV1RR actually the reason the economy was so bad was because the government DID get involved. My reason for saying this is because the national treasurer said himself that the economy will fix itself and if you look at it our debt has increased more rapidly than 1939

[knuckleheadjones]

@FrenchPropagandaV1RR I'm shocked you didn't surrender halfway through writing that...

[tman52100]

@FrenchPropagandaV1RR BULL get your facts right! our country did so much to help europe before and after WWI. When it came to payback time europe couldn't pay the U.S. back, it then caused the economy to become worse! Because we helped Europe it made our economy worse. We did it all for the better, we didn't have to help europe after WWI ether! this man was a good guy and not a liar!

[FrenchPropagandaV1RR]

@1madaboutguitar :-) lol same answer, of course ..........

[FrenchPropagandaV1RR]

LIAR