The first intensive study of FDR's foreign nationalities policy

Lorraine M. Lees explores the persistent tension between ethnicity and national security by focusing on the Yugoslav-American community during World War II. Identified by the Roosevelt administration as the most representative example of the ethnic conflict they sought to address, the Yugoslav-American community suffered from a severe political split, as right-wing monarchists loyal to Mihajlovic and the Chetniks battled left-wing supporters of Tito's partisans.

Lees examines the views of two groups of administration policy...