Richard A. Harrison, in Diplomatic History (Summer
c h' 1981), Department of History, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt is generally portrayed scholars as a watchdog who couldn't bark much during the 1930s-an international-ist by inclination who was constrained by staunch isolationism at home. But Harrison, a Pomona College (Calif.) historian, writes that FDR once tried to organize a world peace conference where the democ- racies would unite...