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FDR: If a just and durable peace is to be attained, or even if all of us are merely to save our own skins, there is one…

On the recordFebruary 22, 1942
If a just and durable peace is to be attained, or even if all of us are merely to save our own skins, there is one thought for us here at home to keep uppermost.
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Democratic · New York

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