Recently, a poster wrote this about General George Patton:
"George Patton was pretty irrelevant politically."
General Patton Speaks With God Page 8 US Message Board - Political Discussion Forum
It is typical of the level of misunderstanding most folks have about the FDR era, from before WWII though the post-war period.
The fact is, this ignorance is exactly what the folks who rule the schools and the media wish. But understanding same give perspective on the political climate today.
Let's set the stage:
1. The economic policies of Franklin Roosevelt were based on those of the fascist, Benito Mussolini.... It is a fact that none of the New Dealers were constitutionalists. Roosevelt's economist, Rexford Tugwell said: 'Any people who must be governed according to the written codes [the United States Constitution] of an instrument which defines the spheres of individual and group, state and federal actions must expect to suffer from the constant maladjustment of progress. A life which changes and a constitution for governance which does not must always raise questions which are difficult for solution.'
Manly, "The Twenty Year Revolution," p.63
a. Tugwell was opposed to any private business not controlled by the government. General Hugh Johnson was working with Tugwell on a bill to create the NRA, and gave Francis Perkins (U.S. Secretary of Labor) the book by Rafaello Viglione, "The Corporate State," in which the neat Italian system of dictatorship for the benefit of the people was glowingly described."
Francis Perkins, "The Roosevelt I Knew."
The NRA was copied from Mussolini's corporative system.
a. Perkins questioned whether Johnson 'really understood the democratic process...'
New Dealers had no problem with the fascist nature of their plans.
b. " Fascism did not acquire an evil name in Washington until Hitler became a menace to·the Soviet Union." Manly, p. 48
2. And not just a student of Mussolini, Roosevelt had the same amiable relationship with Adolf Hitler..... The National Socialists hailed Roosevelt's ‘relief measures’ in ways you will recognize:
a. May 11, 1933, the Nazi newspaper Volkischer Beobachter, (People’s Observer): “Roosevelt’s Dictatorial Recovery Measures.
b. And on January 17, 1934, “We, too, as German National Socialists are looking toward America…” and “Roosevelt’s adoption of National Socialist strains of thought in his economic and social policies” comparable to Hitler’s own dictatorial ‘Fuhrerprinzip.’
c. And “[Roosevelt], too demands that collective good be put before individual self-interest. Many passages in his book ‘Looking Forward’ could have been written by a National Socialist….one can assume that he feels considerable affinity with the National Socialist philosophy.”
The paper also refers to “…the fictional appearance of democracy.”
3.In 1938, American ambassador Hugh R. Wilson reported to FDR his conversations with Hitler: “Hitler then said that he had watched with interest the methods which you, Mr. President, have been attempting to adopt for the United States…. I added that you were very much interested in certain phases of the sociological effort, notably for the youth and workmen, which is being made in Germany…” cited in “Franklin D. Roosevelt and Foreign Affairs,” vol.2, byFranklin D. Roosevelt andEdgar B. Nixon, p. 27.
So....the President of the United States looked to the economic programs of Mussolini and Hitler for direction.
Any other dictators he favored?
Yup.
I'll get to that....then General George S. Patton.
"George Patton was pretty irrelevant politically."
General Patton Speaks With God Page 8 US Message Board - Political Discussion Forum
It is typical of the level of misunderstanding most folks have about the FDR era, from before WWII though the post-war period.
The fact is, this ignorance is exactly what the folks who rule the schools and the media wish. But understanding same give perspective on the political climate today.
Let's set the stage:
1. The economic policies of Franklin Roosevelt were based on those of the fascist, Benito Mussolini.... It is a fact that none of the New Dealers were constitutionalists. Roosevelt's economist, Rexford Tugwell said: 'Any people who must be governed according to the written codes [the United States Constitution] of an instrument which defines the spheres of individual and group, state and federal actions must expect to suffer from the constant maladjustment of progress. A life which changes and a constitution for governance which does not must always raise questions which are difficult for solution.'
Manly, "The Twenty Year Revolution," p.63
a. Tugwell was opposed to any private business not controlled by the government. General Hugh Johnson was working with Tugwell on a bill to create the NRA, and gave Francis Perkins (U.S. Secretary of Labor) the book by Rafaello Viglione, "The Corporate State," in which the neat Italian system of dictatorship for the benefit of the people was glowingly described."
Francis Perkins, "The Roosevelt I Knew."
The NRA was copied from Mussolini's corporative system.
a. Perkins questioned whether Johnson 'really understood the democratic process...'
New Dealers had no problem with the fascist nature of their plans.
b. " Fascism did not acquire an evil name in Washington until Hitler became a menace to·the Soviet Union." Manly, p. 48
2. And not just a student of Mussolini, Roosevelt had the same amiable relationship with Adolf Hitler..... The National Socialists hailed Roosevelt's ‘relief measures’ in ways you will recognize:
a. May 11, 1933, the Nazi newspaper Volkischer Beobachter, (People’s Observer): “Roosevelt’s Dictatorial Recovery Measures.
b. And on January 17, 1934, “We, too, as German National Socialists are looking toward America…” and “Roosevelt’s adoption of National Socialist strains of thought in his economic and social policies” comparable to Hitler’s own dictatorial ‘Fuhrerprinzip.’
c. And “[Roosevelt], too demands that collective good be put before individual self-interest. Many passages in his book ‘Looking Forward’ could have been written by a National Socialist….one can assume that he feels considerable affinity with the National Socialist philosophy.”
The paper also refers to “…the fictional appearance of democracy.”
3.In 1938, American ambassador Hugh R. Wilson reported to FDR his conversations with Hitler: “Hitler then said that he had watched with interest the methods which you, Mr. President, have been attempting to adopt for the United States…. I added that you were very much interested in certain phases of the sociological effort, notably for the youth and workmen, which is being made in Germany…” cited in “Franklin D. Roosevelt and Foreign Affairs,” vol.2, byFranklin D. Roosevelt andEdgar B. Nixon, p. 27.
So....the President of the United States looked to the economic programs of Mussolini and Hitler for direction.
Any other dictators he favored?
Yup.
I'll get to that....then General George S. Patton.
