The U.S. is at war with Germany.
Franklin Roosevelt this week did not declare waronly Congress can do that.
But he said plainly in a fighting speech, at a Navy League dinner in Washington:
"We have wished to avoid shooting. But the shooting has started. And history has recorded who fired the first shot."
It was the President's first major statement of U.S. policy in five monthssince that night last May when he proclaimed a state of unlimited emergency.
Much had happened since that night in the spring. U.S. forces had occupied Iceland....
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