... not left, and entering a new war, they felt, would be foolish. In the early stages of the war American Ambassador to London was quoted saying "It's the end of the world, the end of everything". As Richard Overy notes in The Road To War, this growing division from Europe was not mere selfishness. They were the values expressed by secretary of state, Cordel Hull: "a primary interest in peace ... axis powers thereby jeopardizing not only the safety of the American people but also the American economy which was so essential to a large and complex country that the United States was at the ti...

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