Even as a cruiser slides down the launching ways, plans for improvement, plans for increased efficiency in the next model, are taking shape in the blueprints of designers.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1933, until his death on April 12, 1945. A member of the Democratic Party, he was born in New York and is best known for his leadership during two of the most significant crises in American history: the Great Depression and World War II. Roosevelt implemented the New Deal, a series of programs and reforms aimed at economic recovery and social welfare, which fundamentally reshaped the role of the federal government in American life.
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Even while the production line turns out airplanes, new airplanes are being designed on the drafting table.
In this era of swift, mechanized warfare, we all have to remember that what is modern today and up-to-date, what is efficient and practical, becomes obsolete and outworn tomorrow.
I will not hesitate at any moment to ask for additional funds when they are required.
In sea operations the airplane is just as much an integral part of the unity of operations as are the submarine, the destroyer and the battleship, and in land warfare the airplane is just as much a part of military operations as are the…
Recent wars, including the current war in Europe, have demonstrated beyond doubt that fighting efficiency depends on unity of command, unity of control.
In hitting power and in efficiency, I would even make the assertion that it is stronger today than it was during the World War.
This money has been used to make our Army and Navy today the largest, the best equipped, and the best trained peace-time military establishment in the whole history of this country.
I think that it is a matter of fairness to the nation that you hear the facts.
Let us have done with both fears and illusions.
But let us not be calamity-howlers and discount our strength.
It is whispered by some that, only by abandoning our freedom, our ideals, our way of life, can we build our defenses adequately, can we match the strength of the aggressors.
They have lost the illusion that we are remote and isolated and, therefore, secure against the dangers from which no other land is free.
To those who have closed their eyes for any of these many reasons, to those who would not admit the possibility of the approaching storm--to all of them the past two weeks have meant the shattering of many illusions.
I ask this in the name of our common humanity.
Please--I beg you--please give according to your means to your nearest Red Cross chapter, give as generously as you can.
They stumble on, knowing not where the end of the road will be.
Tonight over the once peaceful roads of Belgium and France millions are now moving, running from their homes to escape bombs and shells and fire and machine gunning, without shelter, and almost wholly without food.
I think it is right on this Sabbath evening that I should say a word in behalf of women and children and old men who need help-- immediate help in their present distress--help from us across the seas, help from us who are still free to…
We are shocked by the almost incredible eyewitness stories that come to us, stories of what is happening at this moment to the civilian populations of Norway and Holland and Belgium and Luxembourg and France.
As long as it remains within my power to prevent, there will be no blackout of peace in the United States.
I have said not once but many times that I have seen war and that I hate war.
Even a neutral cannot be asked to close his mind or his conscience.
Even a neutral has a right to take account of facts.
This nation will remain a neutral nation, but I cannot ask that every American remain neutral in thought as well.
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