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FDR: Always--from the very day we were attacked--it was right militarily as well as morally to reject the arguments of those…

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Always--from the very day we were attacked--it was right militarily as well as morally to reject the arguments of those shortsighted people who would have had us throw Britain and Russia to the Nazi wolves and concentrate against the Japanese.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Roosevelt defends the decision to support Britain and Russia against Nazi Germany rather than focusing solely on Japan.

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