FDR: “Those plans provided for ultimate domination, not of any one section…”

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Those plans provided for ultimate domination, not of any one section of the world, but of the whole earth and all the oceans on it.

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Roosevelt warns that the ultimate goal of conquest was global domination, not limited to specific regions.

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