When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in the early morning of December 7, 1941, it was afternoon in England. Winston Churchill said that he went to bed that night assured that the United States would enter the war in Europe. Roosevelt had probably told him so.
At this fever-pitch of hysterical hatred against the Axis, Roosevelt was going to ask Congress to declare war not only on Japan, but on Germany and Italy as well. During the night, he found he didn’t have anything like the votes he needed to do that.
Congress knew Roosevelt would try to use Pearl Harbor as a pretext to get America into the war in Europe, and it wouldn’t let him. It was his one big chance, and he didn’t have a prayer. He was opposed by most Republicans and by a majority of Democrats as well, Democrats like Joseph Kennedy.
So on December 8, 1941, the United States declared war on Japan alone. There was a solid block resistance to getting into the European war. Both Roosevelt and Churchill despaired.
Then on December 11, 1941, Adolf Hitler gave Churchill and Roosevelt the greatest gift they had ever received. He completely discredited all those Americans who opposed war in Europe by declaring war on the United States.
Hitler said he was “going to war by the side of heroic Japan.” In other words, he was joining non-whites in a war against a white nation!
I have seen pictures of Hitler walking through the rubble of Berlin. He was asking himself, “WHY did I bring all this destruction down on the heads of my people?”
And only then did the internment of all European Jews begin in earnest.
No true racist would have declared war on America for the sake of “heroic Japan.”
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