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FDR: It is not only humane and charitable for the United Nations to supply medicine and food and other necessities to the…

On the recordNovember 8, 1943
It is not only humane and charitable for the United Nations to supply medicine and food and other necessities to the peoples freed from Axis control; it is a clear matter of enlightened self-interest.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Address on the Signing of the Agreement Establishing the U.N.R.R.A.

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