David T. Beito
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Germany, Japan, etc.
But FDR's role in creating those conditions was not an entirely innocent one.
In 1933, there was an economic crisis.
There was a world conference to deal with the economic crisis.
FDR's own Secretary of State went there.
It was the London Economic Conference.
It was torpedoed as Hull got off the boat and thought he had an agreement on tariffs and debt by FDR, who had basically kind of an isolationist position at that time.
The view was, let's focus on the New Deal.
So there's a lot of wrinkles to this, I think you could say.
We could look at the period before the war.
FDR's attitudes towards the plight of Jews in Europe.
It was not a very sympathetic attitude.
After Kristallnacht, many people were, for example, saying we got to do something to provide a refuge, either the United States or in a third country for Jewish refugees.
And FDR really did nothing.
In fact, the theory during the war was the only way to help Jews was to win the war, despite the fact that there were a lot of people, including many of them very strong Zionists, who wanted to cut side deals with restive Axis powers like Hungary and Romania, who were willing to release their Jewish population.
But there was no negotiation going on.
So I think you could focus on the wartime leadership.
I think there were positive things about that.
I think one thing that FDR did do during the war is he was deferential for the most part to his generals.
He didn't muck around too much.
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