Franklin D. Roosevelt and World War II

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This document is part of the paper by George M. Elsey in Harry S. Truman Presidential Library, Missouri State. Elsie who was working under President Franklin Roosevelt during the Second World War was the president's supreme administrative assistant. Truman met with Erzy and other counselors on the morning of the 27th and drafted and corrected public statements on the North Korean conflict. At 11:30 in the morning, the president met with the members of the Diplomatic Foreign Relations Committee of Parliament, and soon afterwards the statement was announced to newspaper reporters. In the afternoon, Truman joined another UN conference and proposed a resolution to call all UN member countries for support to South Korea. The meeting was originally planned to be held in the morning, but was postponed to accommodate one of the members.

At the beginning of the Second World War, President Franklin Roosevelt opposed European colonialism, especially in India. When England's Winston Churchill called for victory of the war to be a top priority, he withdrew. Roosevelt hoped the United Nations will resolve the problem of non-colonization. Some people explain internal conflicts among people as a form of imperialism and colonialism. This internal form differs from the informal US imperialism in the form of political and financial hegemony. The internal form of this imperialism also differs from the "colonial era" that the United States has formed overseas. By treating its indigenous peoples during its expansion to the west, the United States took the form of imperial power before any imperialists' attempt outside. This internal form of empire is called "internal colonialism".