Brigadier General Wood wrote: "Dear Mr. President, The America First Committee ... asks that you [submit] to Congress a resolution for the declaration of a state of war between the United States and the German Reich."
President Roosevelt wrote: "Every schoolchild knows what our foreign policy is. It is to defend the honor, the freedom, the rights, the interests and the well-being of the American people. . . . The real end, the inescapable end, is the destruction of the Hitler menace. . . ." These two spokesmen, representing two different aspects of the changing U.S. mind, were completely at...
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