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FDR: It was only natural for us then to decide that this country was to be the predominant cargo shipbuilding area for us…

On the recordAugust 2, 1943
It was only natural for us then to decide that this country was to be the predominant cargo shipbuilding area for us both.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Letter to Churchill on the Transfer of Merchant Craft to Great Britain

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