[AveMaria]

>>>>The US populace did not have just 'many who were anti-war' but virtually half who were pro German. (Kennedy family for one example and there is still debate over Lindberg)<<<<

That is one ugly aspect of the pre-war American right. There were many rightists who shared the view of Charles Lindberg, that the greatest threat to Western Civilization came from the Soviets and the Orientals (as Asians were then called).

They viewed Hitler's Germany in the same way they viewed Franco's Spain, as allies of the West against the spread of Communism and the so-called "Yellow Peril".

Such rightists would have sought detente with Nazi Germany.

[sailor4321]

If those "rightists" had achieved detente with Germany, they would have fit right in with the "leftists" (i.e., communists) who of course supported the German-Russian nonaggression pact (to the point of opposing our doing anything to stop the NAZIs). Thank God Germany attacked Russia, as this made it possible for the left in this country to support anti-fascism. Otherwise, we might well have seen the left in this country trying to sabotage the war effort (rather than simply giving every secret they could lay their hands on to the Russians).