FDR: “Ask the women and children whom Hitler is starving whether the…”

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Ask the women and children whom Hitler is starving whether the rationing of tires and gasoline and sugar is too great a "sacrifice.

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Roosevelt asks Americans to empathize with those suffering under Nazi starvation policies to justify rationing.

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