War-Entry Plans Laid to Roosevelt. Britain releases Her Data on Talks with Churchill. London. AP. Formerly top-secret British government papers made public today said that President Franklin D. Roosevelt told Prime Minister Churchill in August, 1941, that he was looking for an incident to justify opening hostilities against Nazi Germany. Churchill reported to the War Cabinet [that] “he [Roosevelt] was obviously determined that they should come in.… The President had said that he would become more and more provocative. If the Germans did not like it, they could attack American forces.
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