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FDR: “Inevitably such a peace would be a gift to Nazism to take breath—armed breath—for a second war to extend the control…”

On the recordAugust 20, 1941
Inevitably such a peace would be a gift to Nazism to take breath—armed breath—for a second war to extend the control over Europe and Asia to the American Hemisphere itself.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Message to Congress on the Atlantic Meeting with Prime Minister Churchill

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