I watched the one man show of Saderup depicting Churchill & I have no idea what on earth he's talking about wrt FDR:
"In January, 1938, President Roosevelt made a very brave offer to the British government. To use American influence to bring together the European powers, & discuss a general settlement. The offer was rebuffed by Prime Minister Chamberlain. No even could have been more likely to stave off & prevent war, than the arrival of the United States in the vicious circle of European hatreds & fears. That Mr. Chamberlain could wave off the hand outstretched across the Atlantic, left me breathless with amazement & appall"
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7258476/
I looked through the FDR Presidential library for January 1938 & the only thing I could find was that FDR's address to the US Congress was rebroadcast on the BBC which doesn't seem to have been as far reaching an offer of US involvement into European affairs as Churchill seems to have made it out to be:
"The President’s address to Congress was broadcast via radio in Great Britain, where The Labourite Daily Herald wrote, 'The net affect of the president’s speeches is to put in the mind of any would be aggressor the fear that any attempt to over throw law would ultimately bring Americans in to defend it. But equally it is clear that the United States is not willing to carry cooperation beyond the purely moral plane and into effective action.'"
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/daybyday/event/january-1938-10/
"The President’s address to Congress was broadcast via radio in Great Britain, where The Labourite Daily Herald wrote, 'The net affect of the president’s speeches is to put in the mind of any would be aggressor the fear that any attempt to over throw law would ultimately bring Americans in to defend it. But equally it is clear that the United States is not willing to carry cooperation beyond the purely moral plane and into effective action.'"
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/daybyday/event/january-1938-10/
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