Kick’s greatest conflict with her father had nothing to do with Billy at all, but with Hitler and America’s role in the war. Joe, as US ambassador to the United Kingdom, had sought to meet with Hitler and had encouraged appeasement with the Nazis; he thought democracy, in Western Europe and America, would soon be dead, and that Germany would establish a new world order—one that he in fact agreed with. Joe Sr. blamed the “Jew media” in the United States, as he wrote to Viscountess Nancy Astor, condemning their coverage of Hitler and his atrocities for setting “a match to the fuse of the world.”
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