[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I read a lot of newspaper articles from the time and it was a possibility but it was really not wanted. We did not want to get involved in another European war unless there was no choice. The Reuben James was a clear sign of how much we did not want to get involved. We had gone to war over much less in the past.

There was some push by the Communist Party in the US but it was not a popular notion.

Japan was the target until Hitler obligingly decided to pin a target on his own back.

[dfwgator]

It’s a fair statement that while most didn’t want war, they were resigned to its’ inevitability and necessity.