Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

It is essential that Germany should not be able successfully to employ such tactics through sudden seizure of strategic points in the South Atlantic and in the North Atlantic.

Context

Message to Congress on Landing Troops in Iceland, Trinidad, and British Guiana

07/06/1941

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