Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)

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[...] The Polish question was important for Roosevelt, who wanted to do a favour to the Poles who lived in America and had voted for him. The conclusion was that the next Polish government had to result from free elections. Discussions between the 3 nations were difficult and finally were also agreed on the organization of the United Nations question, an international organization which has as aim the maintain of peace, a project dear to the USA. It's during these different conferences that the American conceptions about a new world were agreed. [...]

[...] In the Gold Reserve Act from 30th January 1934, Roosevelt understood the mistakes that he did. The price of the gold was fixed at 35 dollars for a once, it meant a devaluation of Gold was put out of circulation and it was forbidden to the Americans to possess it. The USA, and England, used the gold bullion standard, i.e. the gold standard in ingot. The result of this monetary policy was to favour the production, and by diminishing the American prices in relation to the worldwide products, to stimulate exports. [...]

[...] Roosevelt and the Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin met53. Roosevelt was the petitioner of this conference, even if he was weakened by the illness. He wanted to exercise his own diplomacy. He was persuaded that he could alone coax Uncle Joe (Stalin), because they had particular relations, the same as between him and Churchill. In the same spirit, he could have said: and me, consulting sometimes Winston, will rebuild the world?. Most of the important decisions made remained secret until the end of World War II for military or political reasons; the complete text of all the agreements was not disclosed until 1947. [...]

[...] Let's remember that in 1940, Japan joined Germany and Italy by signing the ?steel treaty?. Months of negotiations between the USA and Japan gave nothing as result. Economic reprisals were ordered face to face to Japan. An embargo was decreed on the iron, steel, oil and freezing of Japanese resources in the USA and nomination of the general Mac Arthur as chief commandant of the American forces in the Middle East. This embargo will only be stopped when the Japanese troops evacuate China and Indochina. [...]

[...] Production and productivity never stop growing up, when outlet were always the same. It had as consequence a saturation, followed by a price falling. Farmers were unable to pay their tax or debts and they moved from the countryside to the cities to escape to their destiny. Roosevelt was also personally touched by war and illness, it was for him essential to reintroduce in the policy some moral values, and old values. The limits of this restoration depend, according to him, on the ability of the Americans to use social values than the material profit. [...]