re: #400 Dave the…..

Afrocity (and others), didn’t I read something just recently that in the 1930’s, Joe Kennedy was sympathetic to Nazi Germany?

Actually, if you like reading old primary sources, read American newspapers from between 09/01/39 and 12/07/41. It’s amazing how pacifist America was. In the fall of 1939, Armistice day parades were canceled so we didn’t get a pro-military impression as the war ramped up in Europe.

I did some preservation work on JPK;s diaries from his days as Ambassador to Great Britain. They may be digitized ….then again scrap that if they are the pages will be edited. My take on it was that he was naive about the threat of Hitler. Joe did not get along with FDR or Churchill. The diary shows this.