Roosevelt, after reading the thirteen-page transmission said, This Means War." ... Stinnett uncovered the truth by reading American naval intelligence radio intercepts of the Japanese transmissions. ... Roosevelt's summer embargo was the result of another administration policy, "namely helping the Japanese to build up their military oil reserves just enough to encourage them to attack the United States but not enough to enable them to win a long war." In the summer of 1940, Roosevelt took two actions designed to utilize this truly Machiavellian plan. ...

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First he told his listeners they needed to establish nationwide reading rooms manned by John Birch Society members. With these reading rooms they could distribute conservative literature about the recent past into as many hands as possible so the populous understands what the Communists are trying to do (Welch 77). ... In addition to the reading rooms and spread of literature, the Society needed to strategically organize fronts against Communism. ...

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His pride in the United States was coupled with his Orthodox Jewish faith, although not too deeply observed, having been exposed to a more secular socialist leaning Jewish culture through the "Workmens' Circle" and by reading the "Daily Forward" the leading secular Yiddish newspaper in the United States during the great immigration of Eastern European Jews prior to World War I and subsequently served the needs of that generation until it more or less died out in the later part of the twentieth century. ... According to one of her very unreliable stories, she claimed to have had booked pas...

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