by Simon Black, Sovereign Man:

On the morning of February 23, 1944, US President Franklin Roosevelt sent an important telegram to two of his key allies overseas– British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union.

World War II was still raging. And while the allies had seized the upper hand, peace was more than a year away.

Surprisingly, though, Roosevelt didn’t write to his allies to discuss the war. He was already thinking about what the world would look like AFTER the war was over… and in the telegram, Roosevelt invited them to participate in a conference on “postwar economic collaboration”.