This book describes the foreign policy sentiments of Virginians during the pre-Pearl Harbor Roosevelt era and examines the forces that helped shape those sentiments. It discerns which political, ideological, cultural, and economic bases influenced the views of Virginians on four major foreign policy issues of that period: League of Nations and World Court membership, reciprocal trade, the Good Neighbor policy, and interventionism. The author has concentrated on the views of those politicians,...
This book describes the foreign policy sentiments of Virginians during the pre-Pearl Harbor Roosevelt era and examines the forces that helped shape those sentiments.
\ Journal Of Southern History...there is good information in this study for those interested in learning about Virginia's response to the approach of World War II.\ \ \ \ \ Virginia Magazine Of History and Biography...wide ranging and factually rich.\ \ \ The North Carolina Historical ReviewA scholarly, well-written and needed analysis of Virginia's role in the years leading up to this country's entry into World War II. Mr. Platt has explored the question from every important angle, and the result does credit to his exceptional ability as a historian.\ \ \ \ \ The Journal Of Southern History...there is good information in this study for those interested in learning about Virginia's response to the approach of World War II.\ \ \ \ \ The Journal of Southern History...there is good information in this study for those interested in learning about Virginia's response to the approach of World War II.\ \ \ \ \ North Carolina Historical ReviewA scholarly, well-written and needed analysis of Virginia's role in the years leading up to this country's entry into World War II. Mr. Platt has explored the question from every important angle, and the result does credit to his exceptional ability as a historian.\ \