Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

It is inconceivable they will willingly accept any agreement for so-called 'collaboration' which will in reality imply their alliance with a military power whose central and fundamental policy calls for the utter destruction of liberty, freedom, and popular institutions everywhere.

05/14/1941

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