This is DNN

There was significant isolationist opposition to FDR before the attack on Pearl Harbor, both in the press and among the American public. So much so that on December 4, 1941, the Chicago Tribune printed a leaked copy of “Rainbow Five” — the war plan against Germany, 3 days before Pearl Harbor.

The New Dealers’ War: FDR and the War Within World War II by Thomas Fleming, claims that FDR knowingly lied when he said: “that he would never send American soldiers to fight beyond America’s shores,” and that he planned all along to get America into war against both Japan and particularly Hitler’s Germany.

Sound Familiar?

Fleming wrote an American Heritage article in 1987 on this topic, titled “The Big Leak.”

So big was the leak that it might have caused us to lose World War II. So mysterious is the identity of the leaker that we can’t be sure to this day who it was … or at least not entirely sure.

["The Big Leak"]

Shades of the NY Times…..

Many think that the newly prepared war plan against Nazi Germany was leaked to the Chicago Tribune in order to sabotage FDR’s efforts. Other’s think that the existance of the war plan (and it’s disclosure in the Tribune) was the reason that Germany Declared war upon America right after Pearl Harbor.

Pearl Harbor silenced the isolationists and even the Chicago Tribune ceased it’s isolationist opposition to FDR foreign policies.

The point is that a “DNN”-like newsreel, critical of FDR and his planned war with Germany could very will have been created and shown in movie theaters across America on December 6th, 1941.

But not after 12/7/41.

georgej on November 20, 2006 at 8:36 AM