FDR writes Hitler a Letter.

In April of 1939, President Franklin Roosevelt sent an appeal to Germany's dictator Adolf Hitler,asking him to stop further aggression in Europe. In the letter Roosevelt asked Hitler if he were "willing to give assurances that the Armed Forces of Germany would not attack or invade the following Countries, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, Norway, Denmark,The Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain and Ireland, France, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, Russia, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Iraq, the Arabias, Syria, Palestine, Egypt or Iran."

Anyone who has read my Hubs know that I'm a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt. That being said,this letter that Roosevelt sent to Hitler was one of the great political blunders of FDR;s entire political career.

At the time the United States was bound by Neutrality Laws to avoid the conflict that was taking shape in Europe, on the not so distant horizon. President Roosevelt's hands were tied,and Hitler was well aware of this fact.

Hitler read Roosevelt's letter before a session of the Reichstag and I've seen films of this.I don't understand a lot of the German language, But that doesn't matter. The film does make you laugh. I hate to laugh at anything that Hitler says, but you can really feel the humor that he achieves. I mean he has them rolling in the ales.

It also made the American President look a bit of a fool to the rest of the world. I know FDR regretted sending that letter almost from the moment his sent it. I also wonder how he made such a blunder. Franklin Roosevelt was a born politician. It was in his blood,and he was good at it. He didn't make a lot of political mistakes in his career,but he did screw up every once and a while,and this was definitively one of those times.