John Flynn
 John Flynn    (journalist) | |
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| Born | October 25, 1882 |
| Died | April 13, 1964 (Age 81) |
| Nationality | US |
| Alma mater | Georgetown Law School |
| Interests | Pearl Harbor |
John Thomas Flynn was an American journalist best known for his opposition to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and to American entry into World War II. Flynn later went on to advance that Roosevelt had advance-knowledge of the Pearl Harbor attack.[1]
Armaments industry
Far more important than war is the preparation for war. Indeed war itself is often a by-product of this preparation and of the circumstances which lead to preparation. Preparation for war is far more effective than war as an antidote against unemployment. War produces a more complete result but it is temporary, passes swiftly, and leaves behind it immense dislocations. But preparation for war can go on for a long time-for forty years in Germany and France and Italy. War or preparation for war establishes the government as the one big customer for the one big industry to which almost all industries become tributary: the armament industry. Preparation for war - national defense, it is called -can take a million or more men in this country in peacetime out of the labor market and put them in the army while at the same time three times as many can be drawn into the industries which provide them with tanks, planes, guns, barracks, food, clothes, etc., all paid for by the government with funds raised largely if not altogether by debt.[2]
