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[abaris]

I can see the mindset that went into these polls, given the time and circumstances. In their overwhelming majority people didn't want to go to war. But at the same time the US stretched the term neutrality to it's limits right from day 1. By providing british naval forces with intelligence and similar actions. I can see why an observer might consider actual conflict to be inevitable. The situation with Japan was brewing since 1937 when they invaded China. So I'm pretty sure that was on the radar of the media and gave reason for concern too.