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,7 neutral in thought as well as in action.   President
.toosevelt made no such appeal in 1939; neither he nor the
Majority of the American people concealed their prefer-
*• T>es or their hopes.
 5	fet some illusion^ survived the outbreak of the war.
 6	-early character enabled the isolationists who had
^cc ilared that there would be no war, to declare that this
i a * phoney * war. The invasion of Norway, followed
^ ithe invasion of Holland, was a great shock to many
P^v tericans, who had believed that neutrality was a happy
k te to wlrch any nation could attain by wishing for it.
* *tiad long been asserted that in the last war, Holland and
^a;orway '" '' shown that, by a rigid neutrality, it was
^8 teible tt »&tay out of war, Each new aggression by
k iler, down to and including the invasion of Russia,
^0) ive deeper home the truth that neutrality was a state
^it lasted as long as it suited Germany and not a day
u	Support to the Democracies
^c &ut even more important than the destruction of the
^v ;al house of cards of neutrality w:~ ^%Lo collapse of the
^x-ategic house of cards of America!!' immunit The
.ajority of the American people hot only wan      *^e
Allies to win, but expected them to win.   The collapse ok
Vance suddenly brought them face to face with the
Disturbing possibility of a Hitlerized Europe.   It was
nnder the threat of this event that they
me conscription, that
the purists ^against Jh^, t^^^	to Great
Britain in return iforjhe.rigj&it^^
West Indian islands,  that public opinion* forcecFTStr.
Wendell Willkie on the Republican party as its presi-
dential candidate, and that breaking one of the   most
velt was elected fox a
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Once re-elected, President Roosevelt cut loose rrorn