Fireside Chat
12/28/1940
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The Nazi war machine has stripped them of raw materials and machine tools and trucks and locomotives.
It is fruitless to try to place the blame for this situation on one particular Nation or on another.
The jurisdiction granted by this order shall cease at the expiration of the six months' period following the termination...
I do know it will come, and I do know that tonight there are over seven and a half million Americans overseas or fightin...