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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: BlueCrab who wrote (13680)	4/16/1998 5:24:00 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20981

<<< <<before the whole world he even turned away the refugee Jews on the S.S. St. Louis>> I don't think that Roosevelt had the authority to allow them entry. >>> Roosevelt could have done it if he had really wanted to. But nonetheless, a typically one-sided, out of context remark from "Zolty"--the "whole world" (certainly the European world) was busy doing the same thing, by and large. Very few exceptions. That led Hitler to believe that he could do whatever he pleased to the Jews--no one wanted them or cared about what happened to them, and he certainly didn't want them polluting Aryan "blood" or soil, so what's a poor body to do? Especially after he got all of the Polish Jews.

To: BlueCrab who wrote (13680)	4/16/1998 5:41:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

>><before the whole world he even turned away the refugee Jews on the S.S. St. Louis>> I don't think that Roosevelt had the authority to allow them entry. Try thinking next time. FDR absolutely did have authority to offer asylum and has been condemned by thinking people ever since. >> <<You are quite wrong about the Navy>> No, I'm not. You can say that but you've proven otherwise better than anyone. <<many cite the evidence that most of the fleet was sent out of Pearl Harbor shortly before the attack.>> Who cites this? The meat of the fleet (or so it was believed) was at anchor; as I said neither side understood the importance of the carrier (and to greater extent the submarine) in the coming war; had they known, the Japanese would have bombed the submarine pens first (they PURPOSELY went after the BBs first). You should try reading some history on the subject. Most of what was important had been moved out to sea. That had to make it look somewhat believable. I believe much of that came out as a consequence of the commanding officer and his family fighting the obloquy that had been heaped upon him.