Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (173 page)

“our beloved President—Franklin Delano Roosevelt”:
New York Times,
July 16, 1940.

“The President’s refusal to take anyone”: Ickes, 3:240.

“Dear Will”: Sherwood, 177.

“Apparently I am not the only one around here”:
New York Times,
July 16, 1940.

“He goes about looking like an early Christian martyr”: Ickes, 3:232.

“Just because the Republicans”: Sherwood, 179.

“The party longs”: Perkins oral history, 7:481.

“damned outrage”: Farley, 2:297.

“I had luncheon today”: Sherwood, 117–18.

“It might be very nice”: ER, 2:215.

“The situation is not good”: Farley, 2:283.

“Are you happy”:
New York Times,
July 19, 1940.

“Eight years in the presidency”: Radio address, July 19, 1940.

“The last three nights in London”: Kennedy to Rose Kennedy, Sept. 10, 1940, J. Kennedy.

“It has now become most urgent”: From Churchill, July 31, 1940.

“He was smoking a cigar”: Kennedy diary, Aug. 14, 1940, J. Kennedy.

“I am beginning to feel very hopeful”: From Churchill, July 31, 1940.

“It is my belief”: To Churchill, Aug. 13, 1940.

“I need not tell you how cheered I am”: From Churchill, Aug. 14, 1940.

“I had not contemplated”: From Churchill, Aug. 22, 1940.

I told him the gist of the proposal”: To Walsh, Aug. 22, 1940.

“This has nothing to do with destroyers”: Press conference, Aug. 16, 1940.

“The right to bases in Newfoundland”: Message, Sept. 3, 1940.

CHAPTER
40

“There is no more resemblance”: Hull, 1:890.

“The American people”: Hull memo, May 16, 1940,
Peace and War.

“The United States has no aggressive designs”: Hull to Grew, May 30, 1940,
Peace and War.

“tantamount to an embargo”: Japanese embassy to State Department, Aug. 3, 1940,
FRUS: Japan, 1931–1941,
2:219.

“unfriendly act”: Japanese embassy to State Department, Oct. 7, 1940,
FRUS: Japan, 1931–1941,
2:224.

“There cannot be any doubt”: Grew to Hull, Sept. 12, 1940,
Peace and War.

“I should like to see this nation”: Message, May 16, 1940.

“The one most obvious lesson”: Message, May 31, 1940.

“The principal lesson of the war”: Message, July 10, 1940.

“There is a very definite feeling”: Press conference, Aug. 2, 1940.

“that smacks of totalitarianism”:
New York Times,
Aug. 3, 1940.

“very antithesis of freedom”: Ibid., Aug. 7, 1940.

A survey of papers…Gallup poll: Ibid., Aug. 4 and 11, 1940.

“This is the biggest day”: Ibid., Aug. 11, 1940.

“He has no desire to cooperate”: To Edward Taylor, Aug. 12, 1940.

“I am absolutely opposed to the postponement”: Press conference, Aug. 23, 1940.

“America stands at the crossroads of its destiny”: Proclamation, Sept. 16, 1940.

“If you elect him for a third term…they won’t be sent”:
New York Times,
Sept. 17 and 26, Oct. 9, 15, 18, 20, 26, 30, 1940.

“A lead of 53 percent”: Ibid., Oct. 30, 1940.

“political shenanigans”: Statement, Oct. 30, 1940.

“When that term is over”: Address, Nov. 2, 1940.

“Did you definitely mean that?”: Press conference, Nov. 8, 1940.

“I did not think it right for me as a foreigner”: From Churchill, Nov. 6, 1940.

“Does anyone seriously believe”: Fireside Chat, Dec. 29, 1940.

“Orders from Great Britain”: Press conference, Dec. 17, 1940.

“In the future days”: Annual message, Jan. 6, 1941.

“Make no mistake about it…every fourth American boy”:
New York Times,
Jan. 13 and 15, Feb. 25, 1941;
Washington Post,
Feb. 23, 1941.

“the most dastardly, unpatriotic thing”: Press conference, Jan. 14, 1941.

“Garner was there”: Ickes, 3:409.

“So far as I know”: Dallek, 258.

“In the last war”:
New York Times,
Feb. 10, 1941.

“I think this verse applies”: To Churchill, Jan. 20, 1941.

71 percent:
New York Times,
Jan. 26, 1941.

“Let not the dictators of Europe or Asia”: Address, March 15, 1941.

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41

“I suppose you could say”: Sherwood, 236.

“The extraordinary fact”: Ibid., 212.

“You know”: Ibid., 230.

“Does Mr. Hopkins have any special mission”: Press conference, Jan. 3, 1941.

“I want to try to get an understanding…the future of democracy”: Sherwood, 236–49.

“No power and no support…into the war”:
Time,
March 24, 1941.

“the end of any attempts”: Address, March 15, 1941.

“in the interest of national safety”: Statement, April 21, 1941.

“Our problem is to see to it”: Open letter to Knudsen and Hillman, April 30, 1941.

“Command of the air”: Open letter to Frank Knox, May 5, 1941.

“Defense is a national task”: Open letter to Doughton, May 1, 1941.

“Under the present circumstances”: Announcement, April 10, 1941.

“I think some of you know”: Press conference, April 25, 1941.

“What started as a European war”: Fireside Chat, May 27, 1941.

“From every source at my disposal”: From Churchill, June 14, 1941.

“The Russian danger”: Churchill, 3:333.

“Any rallying of the forces”: Welles statement, June 24, 1941,
Peace and War,
684.

“It’s a case of dog-eat-dog…prostrate Poland”:
New York Times,
June 24, 1941.

“Is the defense of Russia the defense of the United States?”: Ibid., June 25, 1941.

“I owed her that much”: James Roosevelt, with Bill Libby,
My Parents
(1976), 108.

“though I do not know exactly what one’s feelings are”: from Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, April 16, 1927, FDRL.

“Mrs. Johnson”: Resa Willis,
FDR and Lucy
(2004), 97.

“There are two groups in Japan”: Hull, 2:1003.

“de Gaullist French agents”: Memo by Welles, July 23, 1941,
Peace and War,
693.

“If these oil supplies”: Memo of conversation, July 24, 1941,
Peace and War,
699–703.

“I have had no answer yet”: To Hopkins, July 26, 1941.

“to prevent the use of the financial facilities of the United States”: Executive order, July 26, 1941.

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42

“The resistance of the Russian Army”: Sherwood, 306–08.

“I ask you to treat Mr. Hopkins”: To Stalin, July 26, 1941.

“It was monumental”: Sherwood, 326.

“Mr. Stalin spoke of the necessity”: Hopkins memo of meeting of July 30, 1941,
FRUS: 1941: Soviet Union,
803–04.

“because then the troops learn…any other force”: Hopkins memo of meeting of July 31, 1941,
FRUS: 1941: Soviet Union,
804–14.

“Not once did he repeat himself”: Sherwood, 343.

“Harry returned dead beat”: From Churchill, Aug. 5, 1941.

“on board ship somewhere in the Atlantic”: Hull to FDR, Aug. 6, 1941, FDRL.

“All that need be said”: To Hull, Aug. 6, 1941, FDRL.

“I was faced with a practical problem”: FDR memo, Aug. 23, 1941, FDRL.

“I saw Father in a new role”: Elliott Roosevelt,
As He Saw It,
10, 28–30.

“very remarkable religious service”: Press conference, Aug. 16, 1941.

“would be compelled to take counter measures”: Sherwood, 354.

“He did not think that there was much hope”: Ibid.

“common principles in the national policies”: Joint statement, Aug. 14, 1941.

“At the Atlantic meeting we had in mind”:
The Churchill War Papers: The Ever Widening War, 1941,
ed. Martin Gilbert (2001), 1186.

“Are we any closer to entering the war?”: Press conference, Aug. 16, 1941.

“He would wage war”: Dallek, 285.

“The danger today is infinitely greater”: Message to Congress, July 21, 1941.

“She was carrying American mail to Iceland”: Fireside Chat, Sept. 11, 1941.

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43

“I simply have not got enough navy”: Ickes, 3:567.

68 percent of Americans:
New York Times,
Sept. 28, Oct. 3 and 5, 1941.

“After twenty years the American people”:
Los Angeles Times,
Sept. 30, 1941.

“crippling provisions”: Message to Congress, Oct. 9, 1941.

“The shooting has started”: Address, Oct. 27, 1941.

Decades later a retired British agent claimed: Nicholas John Cull,
Selling War: The British Propaganda Campaign against American
“
Neutrality
” (1995), 171–73; Wesley K. Wark,
Espionage: Past, Present, Future?
(1994), 91, n. 26.

“If we take this one further step…theaters of this war”:
New York Times,
Nov. 5, 1941.

“outrageous evidence…out of the fight”: Ibid., Nov. 1, 1941.

“Lots of people who think”: Press conference, Nov. 3, 1941.

“Failure to repeal”: To Rayburn and McCormack, Nov. 13, 1941.

“Naturally, the President is pleased with the result”:
New York Times,
Nov. 14, 1941.

“Japan and the United States”: From Konoye, Aug. 27, 1941,
FRUS: Japan, 1931–1941,
2:572–73.

“of the efforts of a third country”: Memo of conversation, Aug. 28, 1941,
FRUS: Japan, 1931–1941,
2:576.

“It is with great regret and disappointment”: Konoye to Grew, Oct. 16, 1941,
FRUS: Japan,
2:691.

“The Jap situation is definitely worse”: To Churchill, Oct. 15, 1941.

“The Japanese menace”: From Churchill, Oct. 18, 1941.

“that big ship you inspected”: From Churchill, Nov. 2, 1941.

“Empire Approaches Its Greatest Crisis”: Grew to Hull, Nov. 3, 1941,
FRUS: Japan,
2:701–4.

“This, to us, could mean only one thing”: Hull, 2:1057.

“Relations are extremely critical”: Ibid., 1058.

“We know that it was, in literal truth”: Address, Nov. 11, 1941.

“Kurusu seemed to me the antithesis of Nomura”: Hull, 2:1062–63.

“Nations must think one hundred years ahead”: Memo by Hull, Nov. 10, 1941,
FRUS: Japan,
2:718.

He jotted a note to Hull: William L. Langer and S. Everett Gleason,
The Undeclared War, 1940–1941: The World Crisis and American Foreign Policy
(1953), 872.

“All the way across the Pacific”: Memo by Hull, Nov. 17, 1941,
FRUS: Japan,
2:740.

“the restoration of peace between Japan and China”: Japanese draft proposal, Nov. 20, 1941,
FRUS: Japan,
2:755.

“of so preposterous a character”: Hull, 2:1070.

“brought up entirely the relations with the Japanese”: Stimson diary, Nov. 25, 1941.

“Any such expedition to the South”: Ibid.

“He fairly blew up”: Ibid., Nov. 26, 1941.

“The Government of Japan will withdraw”: Hull to Nomura, Nov. 26, 1941,
FRUS: Japan,
2:769.

“This seems to me a fair proposition”: To Churchill, Nov. 24, 1941.

“We have been very patient”: Memo by Hull, Nov. 27, 1941,
FRUS: Japan,
2:771.

“It seems to me”: From Churchill, Nov. 30, 1941.

“further aggression”: Memo by Welles, Dec. 2, 1941,
FRUS: Japan,
2:779.

“F.D.R.’s
WAR PLANS!
”:
Chicago Tribune,
Dec. 4, 1941. Other papers picked up and repeated the story.

“They have never constituted an authorized program”:
New York Times,
Dec. 6, 1941.

“If we had been at war”: Ickes, 3:659.

“I refuse to believe”:
New York Times,
Dec. 6, 1941.

“deep and far-reaching emergency”: To Hirohito, Dec. 6, 1941.

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44

“It has been a hard two weeks”: Lash, 643–44.

“I think she is failing fast”: E. Roosevelt and A. Roosevelt, 135.

“The funeral was nice and simple”: Ibid., 136.

“Pa has taken Granny’s death”: Ibid., 137.

“She had carefully saved”: Tully, 105.