24-02-2016, 06:09 PM
Drew Phipps Wrote:I had always assumed that the US didn't jump early into WW2 because the public wouldn't support it (until Pearl Harbor), and because there were huge American fortunes invested in German business. I'm willing to read more. Thanks for the lead David.
There was a very strong pro Nazi sentiment in untold number of leading business leaders that made it impossible for Roosevelt to go to war, even though he wanted to. I think we both briefly discussed some back back his encouragement to the Polish, British and French to push Hitler and Germany to war. That was, as I remember, 1937-ish.
You may also want to consider doing some deeper digging into Pearl Harbour itself. There is a fair amount now known about this and there are also a few very compromising documents that prove that Roosevelt strove to push the Japanese into war and that he allowed Pearl Harbour to happen. The history hitherto has always been that the Japanese fleet crossed the Pacific in radio silence and so no one knew their plans. THis is simply untrue. Japanese fleet signals were regular and numerous and the US and the British were decrypting and reading the product on a daily basis. I can probably did up some interesting links on this if you wish, but the McCollum memo is one place to start. Robert Stinnett's book Day of Deceit, from what I know of it, should also be a good read (I've read some of Stinnett's essays and dsicussion about his research etc).
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14