Joseph Goebbels Quotes
We must wait and see what he (FDR) does next. At the moment, there is no talk of war. He does not dare.
Ironically it was not the military situation that inhibited FDR. He did not fear the military of Germany, but he had a very isolationist Congress to contend with and a right wing America First movement of Nazi German sympathizers including hero Charles Lindbergh and Roosevelt’s own Ambassador to Great Britain, Joseph P. Kennedy. It was finally Germany who declared war on the United States after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Joseph Goebbels, 1897-1945, Nazi Germany Minister of Propaganda, 1941
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Roosevelt had withdrawn his Ambassador to Berlin, publicly reprimanded Joseph P. Kennedy, his Ambassador to England who was pro Fascist and who had said complementary things about Hitler and Mussolini. FDR made anti-German statements to a degree unknown for a country not at war. Hitler publically stated that the Germans would not be pressured. Dictators who U. S. leaders have tried to isolate and pressure, have made similar statements ever since. The American intervention was certainly effective against Hitler.
At first glance, the reader might think that this quotation in a leading university newspaper was from the Vietnam War era. However, it was argument against U. S. involvement in World War II. There was a very negative reaction to Wilson’s visions and claims for the First World War which never did come to pass that stuck with many.
Boggs was working on some compromise positions that could be taken by the party at the 1968 Democratic National Convention to provide the anti war wing of the party with something. The President found out and met with Congressman Boggs.
When the United Nations partitioned Palestine into separate Jewish and Muslim states, the armies of all the Arab countries attacked the new nation which did not even have a formal Army. The Israelis were able to win the war.
Paul Joseph Goebbels was a German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. One of Adolf Hitler's close associates and most devoted followers, he was known for his skills in public speaking and his deep and virulent antisemitism, which led to his supporting the extermination of the Jews in the Holocaust.
