Hi ROss,

On Wed 2037-Mar-04 17:01, Ross Sauer (1:123/789) wrote to Richard Webb:



 RW> YEt fdr knew the mood of the people who elected him.  THese
 RW> were the same folks who were still recovering from a number
 RW> of events.  THe dust bowl years; the great depression, etc.
 RW> We're a full generation past ww 1 and folks still recall
 RW> that.  The mood of the average American was to work at
 RW> getting on and staying on a course of prosperity, and
 RW> foreign military adventures weren't quite his idea of the
 RW> thing to do.

RS> The thing is, conservatives in the couple years leading up to Pearl
RS> Harbor were VERY leery about European wars, but many of them did
RS> like FDR letting them sell lots of arms and supplies to Britain.
RS> Rearming the US was quite profitable, too.

RS> Back then, the unofficial/official "leader" of the conservatives was
RS> a guy on the radio, Father Coughlin.
RS> (Sound familiar?) 


YEp, aware of him.  OF course, commerce was desirable, with
anybody who had the price of admission.  A big difference
between selling arms and supplies and committing young men
to shed blood on foreign soil, which was rather repugnant to average
American folks back then.  A classic case of we
waited, sold to all comers and just watched what happened
until we were dragged into it.

Regards,
           Richard
--- timEd 1.10.y2k+