FDR: “Dreams of conquest appear to us as ridiculous as they are criminal.”

On the recordApril 13, 1939

Dreams of conquest appear to us as ridiculous as they are criminal.

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Democratic · New York

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Address to the Governing Board of the Pan American Union

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