William Stevenson fabricated evidence against the Germans (Intrepid Society)

The war in Ukraine and the diplomatic disputes it raises reveal the importance of men in leadership positions, as the figure at the head of the state is the one who determines the course of events. To understand this, it is enough to imagine the process of geopolitical reorganization that may result from the election of Donald Trump.

With this entry, the French magazine Le Point began an article written by Arthur Chevalier in which he presents the film “The United States vs. Hitler,” which Arte broadcast, and reveals the secrets of an unknown but decisive process, as the outcome of World War II, contrary to what one might imagine, was ultimately decided. On 3 or 4 people, if not one, which is Franklin Roosevelt.

In an implicit comparison, the writer said that former US President Franklin Roosevelt would win in every category if a competition was held for the greatest man of the twentieth century, because his birth into a prominent family in New York gave him beauty, wealth, intelligence, and literature, a combination that may not be the most attracted to fighting, as His views were volatile, sometimes opportunistic, and led by extraordinary political intuition. He was against state intervention in the economy before the New Deal was established, and he was an isolationist before he was the first to intervene in matters.

The credit for Roosevelt's acceptance of entering the war goes primarily to William Stevenson, a man of Canadian origin.

Therefore, the British Prime Minister of his time, Winston Churchill, did not need to exert much effort to convince Roosevelt to go to war on the side of England, even though American public opinion was against it, and Republicans in Congress were often isolationists, and Roosevelt’s mission was simple and complex, which was Persuading his country to accept war, without paying a political price for it.

The mysterious Stevenson

Stevenson was a pilot in World War I. He was captured before escaping in 1918. He changed the course of history after he taught himself and became a millionaire between the wars, becoming head of the British intelligence service in the United States as of 1940, and his mission was to persuade the Americans to enter the war. By making them convinced that they are not safe from the ambitions of the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

If Roosevelt decided to fight Germany, it was not only because of his hatred of its Chancellor, but because of his fear that defeating England would allow the Nazis to monopolize the Royal Navy, and thus to rule the German Navy in the Atlantic Ocean, which was the royal road to America.

Stevenson went so far as to fabricate evidence intended to prove that the Germans intended to encourage coups in South America, sending Roosevelt a secret letter and a purported map supposedly prepared by German secret agents.

The president then decided, willingly or unwillingly, to accept these documents that he talked about in some of his speeches, even though there was no indication that this democrat would turn into the first warlord of his century, ready to do anything, including Lies, to rid the world of “scoundrels and murderers.”

Source: Le Point