Edwin M. Borchard, John Bassett Moore, and Opposition to American Intervention in World War II

Historians have examined many factors concerning American isolationism in the years 1939 to 1941. They have delved into action groups, prominent personalities, and economic and strategic rationales. Surprisingly little research, however, has been done on the role that international law played in the effort to avoid intervention. Yet here arguments on both sides were often tightly drawn and claims heavily documented, hence involving a level of debate not often seen in this period.

Volume 6, Number 1 (1982)