jul 10, 1941 - " I said that this Government must lose no time or effort to keep this nation from being drawn into the war, and I asserted my belief that we would succeed in these efforts." -Franklin D. Roosevelt Message to Congress on Appropriations for National Defense. July 10, 1940

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"At the beginning of September the storm broke, and on the twenty-first of that month, in a message to the extraordinary session of the Congress, I said that this Government must lose no time or effort to keep this nation from being drawn into the war, and I asserted my belief that we would succeed in these efforts. We have succeeded. I believe we shall continue to succeed." -Franklin D. Roosevelt
Message to Congress on Appropriations
for National Defense.
July 10, 1940

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