No tender whisperings of appeasers that Hitler is not interested in the Western Hemisphere, no soporific lullabies that a wide ocean protects us from him--can long have any effect on the hard-headed, far-sighted and realistic American people.
Roosevelt criticizes the false reassurances about Hitler's intentions towards the Western Hemisphere.
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