Abstract

Memoirs of Eduard Benes: V. Washington's War-Time Attitudes

The article presents the author's memoirs during the second World War. The U.S. President during that time, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was a sincere democrat and a far-seeing, practical politician. In the Presidency he had surrounded himself with aides who recognized that the German greed for domination and new territory threatened the civilized world. During the crisis in the fall of 1938 Americans were extraordinarily excited by German dictator Adolf Hitler's arrogance, by the European powers' abandonment of Czechoslovakia, and by the Munich accord. The U.S. ambassador to France, William C. Bullitt, did not express himself so openly, but his attitude toward us during the September, 1938, crisis was wholly negative.