FDR: “We must now act with the dispatch which the stern necessities of war…”

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We must now act with the dispatch which the stern necessities of war require.

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Roosevelt calls for urgent action in response to the demands of war.

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FDR: “We must now act with the dispatch which the stern necessities of war require.”