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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Civil War
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Similar practical considerations dictated some of Roosevelt's diplomatic policies during the war. Cautious of provoking the British, he refrained from acting effectively against colonialism. Embarrassed by the delay in the second front—and anxious to secure Russian assistance against Japan—he acquiesced at the Teheran (1943) and Yalta (1945) summit conferences in some of Russia's aims in Asia and eastern Europe. In his dealings with Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Britain and Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union, Roosevelt ... showed an exaggerated faith in the power of his personal charm. The joviality and exuberance that had soothed ruffled congressmen and bureaucrats during the early New Deal days were not so well suited for international politics.
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Aiding the Soviets reflected Roosevelt's military advice. Despite “assured Russian military dominance†after the war, the joint chiefs invariably opposed “get tough†policies because of military necessity, including the need for Soviet help against Japan. According to Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson in 1945, “in the big military matters the Soviet Government have kept their word.†Only after the end of the war did the predominant U.S. military view of the Soviet Union change from ally to adversary.
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That many conservatives are dredging up this history, not in order to condemn Roosevelt but to praise him, is ominous on several levels. To begin with, if we look at the extent of Roosevelt's program of wartime repression – not only the internment of "enemy aliens," but ... censorship, banning of Socialist and other antiwar periodicals, extensive covert surveillance of anti-interventionist organizations and individual dissenters, and a campaign of demonization that extended to antiwar activists on the Right as well as the Left, one has to wonder if we are looking at our own future.
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