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To: Zoltan! who wrote (13671)	4/16/1998 4:18:00 PM
From: Janice Shell	Read Replies (1) of 20981

FDR would not have needed to do so had he not demagogued about it during the 1940 election... "Demagogue" is not a verb. It is a noun. It is generally accepted by historians now that Roosevelt did know about the impending attack and actually provoked it by denying the Japanese access to vital raw materials. Ah so. FDR should, you think, have sold the Japanese these vital raw materials, as Clinton is alleged to have sold technology to the Chinese? Well, of course Clinton didn't actually do the selling... A further point here. What my own reading suggests is that most historians today believe that, as SFE said, Roosevelt and his counsellors were aware that a Pacific attack was being planned, but didn't know where or when. Unfortunately, our old friend J. Edgar Hoover had a good deal of information, but failed to pass it on because he was pissed off at the Brits and at Wild Bill Donovan for not taking him seriously enough. And I do agree with Jeff: extremism and fanaticism are always bad things, because they encourage irrationality and blind obedience to a "cause".

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