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...fighting speech, Franklin Roosevelt explained what all this meant. "The purpose of Hitler's attack," said he, "was to frighten the American people off the high seas. . . . This is not the first time he has misjudged the American spirit. That spirit is now aroused. . . . Our ships have been sunk and our sailors have been killed. I say that we do not propose to take this lying down." He chose a significant night to tell his story. Navy Day is the birthday of another fighting Roosevelt, who worked hard to build up U.S. power on the sea. It was this...
...voice that crackled this new threat to China over the Tokyo radio was new Japanese Premier General Eiki Tojo's. The voice did not frighten Chungking...
Snarling at Russia's flanks, two jackals last week tried to muster courage to spring for the kill. Big Russia was bleeding from wounds made by Nazi fangs, but there was enough fight in the old bear to frighten Japan and Bulgaria. Benito Mussolini, who has got used to being called a jackal, must have grinned at their behavior...
...request will ask something over $5,500,000,000 more. Like the first, it will be a partial appropriation, for the President does not want to frighten Congress by demanding the whole added $12,000,000,000 he now thinks he may need. No provision will be asked for aid to Russia. If Soviet cash and credit in the U.S. run short, the Administration may offer Russia a loan to finance purchases of war equipment...
Croaked Isolationist Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler: "The speech was designed to frighten the United States into the idea that we have got to get into the war now or else Hitler will...