Theos-Talk Archives (July 2003 Message tt00137)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl@s...> wrote:
> Ted Kennnedy's FATHER was a major early backer of the Nazi movement

That is not accurate. When he was ambassador to the Court of Saint 
James, Kennedy counseled Roosevelt not to back Britain in the belief 
that (1) the British could not stand up to Hitler, and (2) the US, 
which at the time had an army smaller than that of Hungary, could not 
either. His assessment was wrong on both counts, but he was 
motivated by national interest, and not by pro-Nazi sentiment. His 
anti-Britiish stand may have been partially motivated by the 
historical treatment of the Irish by Britain.