"It is the blindness of the American isolationists which I cannot understand. Compared with them, Baldwin and Chamberlain were marvels of foresight. It would be too long to discuss all this more fully -but in what I see of current American discussions I find hardly a sentence which does not prove that people are yet completely unaware of what is at stake now- and how irrevocable the days lost are" (Hayek to Machlup, Jan 2, 1941); carta reproducida por Caldwell y Klausinger en Hayek, a Life, 1899-1950, p. 492.
Agregan los autores, en la misma página, que Mises "...would also later complain that though Americans were starting to wake up to the fact they did not live on Mars, there were "still many stubborn isolationists" in the States (Mises to Hayek, Jan 27, 1941).
