FDR: “Powerful and resourceful gangsters have banded together to make war…”

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Powerful and resourceful gangsters have banded together to make war upon the whole human race.

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Democratic · New York

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Roosevelt describes the aggressors as organized criminals threatening humanity.

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FDR: “Powerful and resourceful gangsters have banded together to make war upon the whole human race.”