[PW] Re: FDR Quote

[Sue Kamm]

Unless this is in THE YALE BOOK OF QUOTATIONS (my copy's at home), the best source is the FDR Library:  http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/

-----Original Message-----
>From: "Hester, Mary" <HesterM at bartonccc.edu>
>Sent: Nov 9, 2006 10:14 AM
>To: list at project-wombat.org
>Subject: [PW]  FDR Quote
>
>A history professor would like to have more information about the
>following:
>
>In mid-1941, a group of Japanese Diplomats bowed politely, one by one,
>as they departed from a meeting at the White House with President
>Franklin D. Roosevelt.  As soon as the door clicked shut, the president
>is said to have remarked to an aide:  "They hate us.  Sooner or later
>they'll come after us."
>
>She has found references to this comment in two sources but neither has
>more information :
>    Unjust Enrichment: How Japan's Companies Built Postwar Fortunes
>Using American POWs  by Linda Goetz Homes  Page 1
>    P. Scott Corbett, Quiet Passages, (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University
>Press, 1987), 6.  
>
>She would like to know the names of the diplomats in the meeting and /
>or the who the aide was as well as any other available information. 
>
> Mary L. Hester, Director of Learning Resources
>Barton County Community College
>245 NE 30th Road; Great Bend, KS 67530
>hesterm at bartonccc.edu <mailto:hesterm at bartonccc.edu>   620-792-9364; fax
>620-792-3238
>
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