re: #469 NJDhockeyfan

Could you imagine the headline “FDR writes letter to Adolph Hitler” ?

Well, since you insist…

Franklin Roosevelt appeals to Hitler for peace

On this day in 1938, President Franklin Roosevelt writes to German Chancellor Adolf Hitler regarding the threat of war in Europe. The German chancellor had been threatening to invade the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia and, in the letter, his second to Hitler in as many days, Roosevelt reiterated the need to find a peaceful resolution to the issue.

The previous day, FDR had written to Hitler with an appeal to negotiate with Czechoslovakia […]