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FDR: “We have not labored long and faithfully to build in this New World a system of international security and…”

On the recordOctober 11, 1944
We have not labored long and faithfully to build in this New World a system of international security and cooperation—merely to let it be dissipated...
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Address to the Chiefs of the Diplomatic Missions from Other American Republics

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