Scotland the Brave - I fear you are being rather unfair to the Us of A regarding thier attitude between 1939 and Decmber 1941 Lend Lease ? The "Neutrality Patrol" ( Does the "Ruben James" ring a bell ?) The "training" personel flying with the Fleet Air Arm and RAF Coastal Comand. The Destroyers for bases deal?

My Grandfather was picked off a raft in mid Atlantic in the summer of 1941 by a US Coast Guard Cutter coincidentally following a UK bound convoy, and depth charging any contact made. I still have the jacket he was given as survivors clothing - damn good quality.

FDR may have been constrained by political reality, as you are in a democracy - but can you fault his support pre Pearl Harbour ?

No - there may be many things to critise about America, but their generosity, and sacrifice in the past, is not to be ignored.

Gareth