FDR: “We could have come to terms with Hitler, and we could have accepted a…”

On the recordOctober 20, 1944

We could have come to terms with Hitler, and we could have accepted a minor role in his totalitarian world.

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Democratic · New York

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Radio Address at a Dinner of the Foreign Policy Association. New York, N. Y.

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FDR: “We could have come to terms with Hitler, and we could have accepted a minor role in his totalitarian world.”