[jamaksin]

The Dark Sun - The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb by Richard Rhodes, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1995, ISBN 0-684-80400-X, Chapter 5, "Super Lend-Lease" pages 94-102.

Harry "The Hop" Hopkins, FDR's alter ego, was the director of the Lend-Lease program at the time (from VENONA Project and other sources - Hopkins was USSR "Agent No. 19").

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

Thanks, I had read that Hopkins was a Soviet spy. Traitor. He was the guy that FDR sent to Moscow to coordinate war and post-war policy with Stalin. May he rot in Hell. At least the SU had its comeuppance.

[David Isaac]

There were quite a few of FDR’s inner circle that were fellow travellers or sympathizers. A book by the name of “FDR’s Folly” gives a pretty good account of the leanings of the big wheels in that administration. It describes how FDR’s policies not only did not help cure the Depression, but actually made it worse.

[David Isaac]

There were quite a few of FDR’s inner circle that were fellow travellers or sympathizers. A book by the name of “FDR’s Folly” gives a pretty good account of the leanings of the big wheels in that administration. It describes how FDR’s policies not only did not help cure the Depression, but actually made it worse.