In the years before World War II, America’s refusal to take a part in international politics
Robert Kagan, who takes Nicolson’s term for the title of his new study. “The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of World Order, 1900-1941”
Two weeks after the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, President Herbert Hoover declared that America would never “fight for Asia”; for emphasis, he announced significant cuts in naval construction.
Thus the rest of the world had to wait and wait, until the shocking news of Pearl Harbor.
Paul Kennedy WSJ 30 December 2022
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-ghost-at-the-feast-review-when-america-kept-to-itself-11672420870
—Mr. Kennedy is a professor of history at Yale University and the author of many studies, including “The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers.”
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