is kind of a noble thing in memory. it was essentially a press release that was put out after roosevelt and churchill met secretly at sea and it was churchill s courtship of roosevelt. world war ii began for the british on september 3rd, 1939 when hitler invades poland. we didn t declare war on nazi germany until nazi germany declared war on us. pearl hasher happened and it took five days before we got into the war against germany. after the atlantic charter was put out which was the statement of principles roosevelt gave a press conference in which he basically said let s not pay too much attention to that. we re still not fighting the war. history is always ambivalent, always contingent and one of the things that to me what s so fascinating here is you do have the an isolationist president standing at the great moment at