ABSTRACT
As one American remarked: Europe had been occupied, Russia and China invaded and Britain bombed, while alone among the great powers the United States was 'fighting this war on imagination alone'. On hearing the news of the Pearl Harbor attack, Churchill announced that he would travel immediately to Washington. Roosevelt was eager to meet Churchill but, fearing that public opinion would not take too kindly to the visit, he suggested a secret meeting in Bermuda and offered as an excuse his concern for Churchill's safety. In 1933, Roosevelt had suspended the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890 and had designed the National Industrial Recovery Act to enable industry to agree on production quotas, wages and prices to overcome the effects of the depression. The attitude of most Americans towards Jews was bound to be affected by the war and by the Nazi persecution, but sympathy for the fate of the European Jews came too late to be of much help.
