Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

I ask Your Majesty to receive this ship as a symbol of the friendship and admiration of the people of the United States.

Remarks on the Presentation of a Submarine Chaser to Queen Wilhelmina for the Dutch Navy

08/05/1942

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