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To: epicure who wrote (16892)1/25/1998 12:48:00 AM
From: Douglas V. Fant  Respond to of 108807
 
Alexa, Fair enough and agreed. But FDR was smart enough to push the USA toward war- especially after Albert Einstein fresh from emigrating from Europe in 1938 came to FDR and warned him about Germany's budding nuclear weapons and rocketry programs....

And heck- the Germans still might have won had not Hitler intervened in his General Staff's planning at about five critical ventures and ordered German military forces to do militarily foolish things just at the wrong time- for e.g in August 1941 with two Panzer Armies sitting in Smolensk just 150 miles from Moscow and the Russian Front in tatters, he ordered (over the Staff's objection) the two Panzer Corps instead to attack south into the Ukraine in order to obtain "Lebensraum"! (Should have pushed rapidly onto to Moscow and finished off the Soviet Union....)...

Sincerely,

Doug F.



To: epicure who wrote (16892)1/25/1998 10:48:00 AM
From: Janice Shell  Respond to of 108807
 
I just don't buy that FDR was necessary to win the war.

I think that, like Churchill in England, he provided tremendous (and necessary) spiritual (shall we say) leadership in a bad time. By so doing he united the country and kept up the people's spirit and resolve. Such figures really are important.