Slow Walk To War

Cement City

Audacy | Cement City Productions

Documentary, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.8 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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At the onset of World War II, Franklin Roosevelt contends with a fierce and at times virulent isolationsist movement in America while Winston Churchill pleads with President Roosevelt to join the fight against Axis forces. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The telephone in the President's bedroom in the family quarters of the White House rang
0:11.9	in the middle of the night as Thursday, August 31, 1939, became Friday, September 1.
0:20.2	Across the Atlantic, Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht, executing a war plan code named Case White,
0:26.6	had struck Poland.
0:29.4	World War II was beginning in earnest.
0:34.2	William Bullitt, Roosevelt's ambassador to France, got the word and reached the President,
0:39.5	who took the call in bed.
0:42.6	Well Bill FDR said, it's come at last.
0:46.6	God help us all.
0:53.9	I'm John Meacham, and this is season 2 of Hope Through History, episode 1, Slow Walk
1:03.0	to War.
1:06.0	Americans thought this might well be yet again another European scheme to drag the United
1:11.1	States into a war that would kill a lot of Americans and in which we did not belong.
1:16.1	Only one thing holds this country from war today.
1:19.3	That's the rising opposition of the American people.
1:23.0	There was our money going to go when we don't have money to take care of us at home, and
1:27.5	so the country was still unaged.
1:40.8	God help us all.
1:42.8	It was understandable that Roosevelt was thinking about the Almighty for the problems the President
1:47.4	faced seemed insuperable.
1:50.4	The nation was strongly isolationist, and fear was a common theme.
1:55.5	Fear of entanglement, fear of sacrificing American blood and treasure for the advantage
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