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The sun that had risen over Africa 18 hours before, just as the invading Italian troops swarmed across the Ethiopian frontier, was casting its early afternoon rays down on the high-school stadium at San Diego, Calif, as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt spoke the fourth and last speech of his Western pre-campaign tour. Taking a timely text from "the greatest writer in our history," the President cited the perils of "malice domestic and fierce foreign war."* The former, he felt sure, was swiftly being smoothed out by the...
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