Yes, we can.

[Alex]

And many of those can be questioned for being when there weren't actual overt conflicts in progress.

But in March 1940, after the invasion of Poland and Britain's declaration of war on Germany, Undersecretary of State Sumner Wells was sent by FDR and met with Mussolini in Rome and then Adolf Hitler in Berlin in an attempt to negotiate a halt to any expansion of the conflict.



You can see these meetings dramatized in the mini-series version of Herman Wouk's Winds of War. Pug Henry wasn't really there but the meetings really happened.