We shall give every possible assistance to Britain and all who are with Britain resisting Hitlerism or its equivalent. Franklin D Roosevelt
I hope the United States will keep out of this war. I believe that it will. I give you assurance and re-assurance that every effort of your government will be directed toward that end. Franklin D Roosevelt, September 1939
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December 7th 1941: A date which will live in Infamy. The United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the empire of Japan. Franklin D Roosevelt
I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday December 7th 1941 – a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese empire. ibid.
We look forward to a world founded upon four essential freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression – everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way – everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want … everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear … anywhere in the world. Franklin D Roosevelt 6th January 1941
We are going to win this war, and we are going to win the peace that follows. Franklin D Roosevelt, 9th December 1941
A very desirable objective of our citizenship: getting to know their own country better. And the more they see of it the more they will realise the privileges that God and Nature has given to the American people. Franklin D Roosevelt
For a long time I felt that FDR had developed many thoughts and ideas that were his own to benefit this country, the United States. But, he didn’t. Most of his thoughts, his political ammunition, as it were, were carefully manufactured for him in advance by the Council on Foreign Relations – One World Money group. Brilliantly, with great gusto, like a fine piece of artillery, he exploded that prepared ‘ammunition’ in the middle of an unsuspecting target, the American people, and thus paid off and returned his internationalist political support.
The UN is but a long-range, international banking apparatus clearly set up for financial and economic profit by a small group of powerful One-World revolutionaries, hungry for profit and power.
The depression was the calculated ‘shearing’ of the public by the World Money powers, triggered by the planned sudden shortage of supply of call money in the New York money market ... The One World Government leaders and their ever close bankers have now acquired full control of the money and credit machinery of the US via the creation of the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank. Curtis Dall, My Exploited Father-in-Law
We had been rich. And then well we weren’t. Hyde Park on Hudson 2012 starring Bill Murray & Laura Linney & Samuel West & Olivia Colman & Elizabeth Marvel & Olivia Williiams & Elizabeth Wilson & Andrew Havill et al, director Roger Michell
Why can’t politicians just be honest? ibid. president
The president wishes to see me. ibid. her to mother
No King of England had ever visited America before. But now he was coming – to Hyde Park on Hudson. ibid.
Was I the only one who couldn’t sleep that night? Was it the moon? How I longed for him. ibid. her
I think we just need to be a little more confident. ibid. King to Queen
The King of England with hotdogs hanging out of his orifices. ibid. king to queen
I thought I might have a swim. ibid. president to king
And no more promises were made ... I watched him grow tired and frail and ill. ibid. her commentary
FDR eventually kept his promises and by 1942 Britain and the United States were fighting shoulder to shoulder. ibid.
In the 1930s there was an attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the US – Franklin Roosevelt – and was put a stop to by General Smedley Butler of the Marine Corp who just put his foot down and said, ‘We’re not having a coup against the elected government.’ And they kept it quiet. As soon as they’d squashed the coup, Roosevelt’s view was let’s not frighten people by telling people what really happened here. Martin Summer, On the Edge with Theo Chalmers and Tony Gosling
Japan’s devastating surprise attack on Pearl Harbor plunged America into war. But it was Hitler who struck ever closer to home. U-boat Wolf-packs prowled the Atlantic and stalked America’s east coast sending ships and crews to the bottom. Hitler’s Secret Attack on America, National Geographic 2012
A forgotten battlefield ... The graveyard of the Atlantic. It’s a treacherous stretch of water. ibid.
Hitler ordered his Wolf-packs to blast American shipping. ibid.
Every U-boat received top secret orders decrypted on the infamous Enigma coding machine. ibid.
Much of the American Navy was deployed in the Pacific. ibid.
Large merchant ships were sitting ducks ... German U-boats ruled the waves. ibid.
In America news of the losses on her own doorstep was oppressed. ibid.
Hundreds of ships. Millions of tons of cargo. And thousands of lives were lost. ibid.
This film reveals Hitler’s secret plans to attack the USA. How his engineers worked day and night to develop innovative weapons of mass destruction. Hitler's 9/11, Channel 5 2013
He ordered his armaments minister Albert Speer to come up with alternative ways to mount an assault on America. ibid.
I’m an American. I’ve always been an American. Citizen Kane 1941 starring Orson Welles & Joseph Cotten & Dorothy Comingore & Everett Sloane & Ray Collins & George Coulouris & Agnes Moorehead & Paul Stewart & Ruth Warrick & Erskine Sanford & William Alland et al, director Orson Welles, Charles Foster Kane
I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five people that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department. Joseph R McCarthy
This is a film about those suckers. They made up the greatest volunteer army in history. They came home not to parades but to … silence, shame, indifference, or they came home in plain wooden boxes marked, This Way Up – Unviewable. John Pilger, Heroes! ITV 1981
60% of all combat soldiers are alcoholics. 40% are drug addicts. 60% of all black veterans can’t find a job. Thousands are in prison. And the divorce rate and their suicide rate is the highest in America. The report which gives these facts was suppressed by the government because what it says breaks the faith. ibid.
In August 1980 during the Presidential election campaign, Ronald Reagan said this: ‘To me it’s the height of hypocrisy for the Carter administration to repeatedly tell us how much we owe our Vietnam veterans and then recommend a stingy 10% increase in the GI Bill. We have been shabby in our treatment of those that return. They deserve our gratitude, our respect and our continuing concern. Our war was a noble cause.’ In March 1981 President Reagan asked Congress to cut programs especially designed to help Vietnam veterans find jobs, finish their education and be treated for drug addiction and alcoholism. ibid.
Missing from this film are the other witnesses to the Vietnam period – the Vietnamese. We hear very little about them these days, and the American veterans speak little about them, perhaps because what was done over there was so terrible that only the victims can afford to speak about it. Such has been the politics of vengeance that the people of Vietnam are now almost completely isolated. ibid.
During the 1980s, the years of Ronald Reagan in the White House, a trail of carnage and grief was blazed across Central America. John Pilger, The War on Democracy, 2007
President Bush has promised to rid the world of evil and to lead the great mission to build free societies on every continent. To understand such an epic lie is to understand history – hidden history, suppressed history, history that explains why we in the west know a lot about the crimes of others, but almost nothing about our own. The missing word is empire. The existence of an America Empire is rarely acknowledged, or it’s smothered in displays of jingoism that celebrate war. And an arrogance that says no country has a right to go its own way unless that way coincides with the interests of the United States. For empires have nothing to do with freedom. They’re vicious. They’re about conquest and theft and control and secrets. Since 1945 the United States has attempted to overthrow fifty governments, many of them democracies. In the process thirty countries have been attacked and bombed, causing the loss of countless lives. ibid.
This is a death squad in action in El Salvador. Actually, it’s the National Police, many of whom were trained at the School of the Americas. Here, on the steps of San Salvador Cathedral, they’re gunning down mourners who were attending the funeral of Archbishop Romero, who was murdered as he said mass on March 23rd 1980. ibid.