Study of the Hegemony of Parasitism - michaeljgoodnight.com

"preparedness", and Asst. Sec of the Navy Franklin
Delano Roosevelt was already letting large Navy
contracts in 1916, a year before we got into the war.
Col. House wrote to President Wilson from London on
May 29, 1914, "Whenever England consents, France
and Russia will close in on Germany and Austria."
While preparing for war, Woodrow Wilson campaigned in
1916 on the slogan, "He kept us out of war". H.C.
Peterson notes in "Propaganda for War", Univ.
Oklahoma Press, 1939: "To a large extent, the 9 million
people who voted for Wilson did so because of the
phrase, 'He kept us out of war'." Col. House later told
Viereck that Wilson had concluded an agreement with
the British in 1916, long before his campaign, to involve
us in the war. Roosevelt repeated the process in 1939
[prior to WW2].
When we went into World War I, Wilson appointed his
campaign fundraiser, Bernard Baruch, head of the War
Industries Board. Baruch was later investigated by the
Graham Committee. He testified, "I probably had more
power than perhaps any other man did in the war;
doubtless that is true." He said of his prewar actions:
"I asked for an interview with the President. I explained to him as earnestly
as I could that I was deeply concerned about the necessity of the
mobilisation of the industries of the country. The President listened very
attentively and graciously, as he always does, and the next thing I heard,
some months afterward, my attention was brought to this Council of National
Defense."