[lit-ideas] Re: The Surgical Strike Option
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 02:20:36 -0500
Robert asked, "Would you remind me again just what
illegal acts FDR engaged in in order to get 'war
material' to Britain 'right after Dunkirk'?"
Here's a reference:
The Neutrality Acts would, however, require the
Administration to terminate sales to all
belingerants if war was declared. The President
saw the need to revise the Neutrality Acts. In the
interim he implemented, through British and French
officials, plans to evade the Neutrality Acts. One
method used was to ship parts to Canada where they
were assembled at plants near U.S. factories and
then shipped on to the Allies. The President and
French representative Jean Monnet, the future
mastermind of the Common Market, in secret talks
on October 19, 1938 at Hyde Park had discussed
just such an operation which could produce 5,000
planes annually.
Freidel, Frank. Franklin D. Roosevelt: Rendezvous
with Destiny (Little Brown: Boston, 1990), p. 309
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