That’s a real general description, but I guess in a way that would be correct. It wasn’t necessarily Roosevelt’s intention to dismantle British colonialism as much as it was his intent to not use American resources to protect it. At this time America had turned very much anti-imperialistic and Roosevelt was especially so. The intention to cut loose the Philippines in 1946 as an example of the American shift.
A real interesting book that I just finished that spends quite a bit of time on the relationship between FDR and Churchill is “Winston’s War” by Max Hastings. I’m going to be writing a book review on it here in the next week or so and I do recommend it for those who want a better understanding of Churchill and some of the relationships he had with the other Allied players.
I am currently enjoying Paul Johnson’s Churchill very much. I’d always admired Churchill, but getting to know him better makes him all the more likeable to me.