Reply #73: Roosevelt HATED the Germans, but not the Japanese.

[Captain Hilts]

On his honeymoon cruise to Europe FDR spent the bulk of his time hanging out with a bunch of Japanese naval officers and the Corbis website has a photograph of FDR and ER greeting the Japanese delegation to the London Economic Conference of 1933.

FDR wanted to round up Germans, but AG Francis Biddle told him they were too geographically dispersed and too integrated into society to figure our which posed a threat and which did not.