[ASLML] Inside The Third Reich

[Jim McLeod]

Listerz;

Keith Todd wrote:
> 
> Could not help but notice, Sam, that you put "Jim "Educated in Canada"
> McLeod wrote:"..  I sincerely doubt that any USA or British sources on
> the public history of WWII can be taken that seriously. 

Agreed.  Those who believe that "everything the winners write is right"
are deluding themselves.  What is written by the victors and is
available to the public is what the victors want you to know.

> The standard
> American history books in 1977 and before were full of "Remember Pearl
> Harbor" and twisted facts about the US government's knowledge of the
> impending attack and especially the Marshall telegram that made to all
> US military post except Hawaii.
> 
> Keith

I would maintain that the US government knew the Japanese were about to
hit Pearl Harbour, ordered the carriers out, and sacrificed the Pacific
fleet to whip up a pro-war sentiment against the Japanese within the
US.  Conspiratorial?  Sure, but the more one learns of how the US
government has conducted itself since WWII, the more plausible such a
theory seems.  

I will hazard to guess that the US government had a very real concern
about domestic upheaval, and in an extreme scenario even revolution,
during the '30's due to the Depression (economic stagnation, mass
unemployment and all the stuff).   The need for an employed population
was paramount and perhaps Roosevelt was running out of New Deal
meg-project funding.  War in Europe was part of his solution but a war
against the Japanese was even better.


			=Jim=