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are not going to be sent into any foreign wars."® When
Tyler Kent, a code clerk at the American embassy in
London, tried to reveal secret dispatches between
Churchill and Roosevelt, and warn the American people
of Roosevelt's intention of getting the United States into
war, he was imprisoned in England until the war was
over. By that time Roosevelt was dead.

The power behind Roosevelt getting the United States
into World War II was the Council on Foreign Relations.
Under a program financed by the Rockefeller

Under

financed

Under a program financed by the Rockefeller
Foundation, (the War and Peace Studies Project) the
CFR conducted 362 meetings and prepared 682 papers
for the President and the State Department. This CFR

the

campaign was conducted in secret, and began just two
weeks after Britain and France declared war on

war on

Germany.
In 1940, CFR members ran an appeal for United

States entry into the war in newspapers across the
country. Their plan was for a union of the United States
and England into a permanent Atlantic alliance as a
major step toward world government.

While America's secret government wanted war, the
American people did not. In 1940, a Gallup poll found
that 83 percent of Americans were against going to war

in Europe.

Ignoring the desires of the American people, and
without a declaration of war by Congress, Roosevelt
began to provoke Germany and the Axis powers by
aiding Britain with fifty destroyers and hundreds of

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