THE PRESIDENCY: The Old Master

Franklin Roosevelt was feeling no pain this week. He had laid his plans, and his plans seemed to be working out. He had seized a country—Dutch Guiana (Surinam). He had temporarily stalemated the Japanese, at a time when every day's delay before the Japs went to war constituted a real victory for the U.S. American tanks and planes were helping the British shag the life out of the Axis troops in North Africa. The first U.S. ships bound direct-to-England, direct-to-Russia were loading cargo and guns to win the Battle of the Atlantic....

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