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FDR: “It would be supreme irony for us to win a victory, and then to inherit world chaos simply because we were unprepared to…”

On the recordNovember 8, 1943
It would be supreme irony for us to win a victory, and then to inherit world chaos simply because we were unprepared to meet what we know we shall have to meet.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

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

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