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"What the British need today is a good, stiff grog"
10 July 2012
Lauren Haumesser is a graduate of the US Studies Centre masters program and is currently researching for an M. Phil. She has started a blog, Edite Meam Historiam, which she uses to catalogue the "strange, funny, and occasionally off-color stuff" she finds while digging through historical archives.
FDR vents about British attempts to draw America into World War Two:
“I got mad clear through and told him that just so long as he or Britishers like him took that attitude of complete despair, the British would not be worth saving anyway. What the British need is a good stiff grog, inducing not only the desire to save civilization but the continued belief that they can do it.”
“Letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Roger B. Merriman, 15 February 1939,” Massachusetts Historical Society, accessed July 2, 2012
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Justin Burke
6:25 PM on Wed 11 July 2012
Great idea for a blog Lauren!
I found something in the Arsenale in Venice - it was a thank you note from then Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt to an official in the Italian Navy during WWI. Wish I took a photo.