Without delving into my books or bookmarked links, FDR kept pushing the area of US protection eastward and whilst the US was not officially at war yet, they gave a guarantee of safe passage to the merchants and eventually instructed their warships to attack if they or their charges were threatened.
Don't anyone forget the Canadians stood by the UK long before the US declared war.
IMHO FDR was the best American President in terms of friendship towards the UK....without him and his efforts to change the hearts and minds of the US people, we'd have been sorely stretched and may not even have survived as long as we did prior to America joining in the hostilities.
Without a shadow of a doubt, America was indeed the 'Arsenal Of Democracy'.
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