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Did FDR promise to launch public spending during the presidential campaign and during the depression? Paddy Tom O'Lincoln <suar...@alphalink.com.au> wrote: >====================================================================== >Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. >====================================================================== > > >On my reading, FDR and co did plan for war with Japan, and created an >environment where Japan was likely to strike. But I don't think they wanted >or expected to see Pearl Harbor smashed up. They seriously under-estimated >the Japanese for racist reasons, and probably expected an attack further >west, eg Philippines. > > Neither would I be confident to say they wanted war. More meaningfully I'd >say they had decided war inevitable. But as I say in my book, they "got >more than they bargaiined for. > > > >________________________________________________ >Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu >Set your options at: >http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/paraichackett%40gmail.com ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
