THE PRESIDENCY: Against Both Sides

Now we find ourselves promising aid to Stalin and his militant Communist conspiracy against the whole democratic ideals of the world. . . . We know also Hitler's hideous record of brutality. . . . But I am talking of Stalin at this moment . . .

if we go further and join the war and we win, then we have won for Stalin the grip of Communism on Russia, and more opportunity for it to extend in the world.

. . . It makes the whole argument of our joining the war to bring the four freedoms to mankind a...

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