Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allies win this war, we can continue to drift along safely on our blissful policy of complete isolationism. If, on the other hand, the Allies lose, our security against the aggressor will no longer lie with the British Navy and the French Army, but only with a greater U. S. armament program than we ever have known before. The Allies are fighting our war. If we allow' them to lose, we will face the dictators alone...
...Edouard Daladier, Italy's Benito Mussolini and Germany's Adolf Hitler met at Munich and signed away the integrity of Czecho-Slovakia. Since history turned on that 29th of September 1938, ten European nations have lost their independence. Proud and once dominant France was the eleventh to lie at the mercy of Europe's dictators, and history never recorded a supremer irony than Adolf Hitler's decision to settle the fate of France with Benito Mussolini at Munich...
...neighbor."The U. S. had taken sides. Ended was the myth of U. S. neutrality: "Let us not hesitate-all of us-to proclaim . . . victory for the gods of force and hate would endanger the institutions of democracy in the Western World . . . the whole of our sympathies lie with those nations which are giving their life blood in combat against those forces." Ended was the Utopian hope that the U. S. could remain an island of democracy in a totalitarian world: "Such an island represents to me and to the overwhelming majority of Americans today a helpless nightmare...
...Navy . . . carried over 335,000 men, French and British, from the jaws of death back to their native land and to the tasks which lie immediately before them...
...Echo Lie down...