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acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia (June 27, 1936) ed. Samuel I. Rosenman, The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt 13 vols., New York (1938-1950)annual message to Congress The Penguin Book of Twentieth Century Speeches, ed. Brian MacArthur (1992)annual message to Congress (Jan. 4, 1933) ed. Samuel I. Rosenman, The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 13 volumes, New York (1938-1950)Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Politics of Upheaval Houghton Mifflin Co. (1960)David Dallek, Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy: 1932-1945 Oxford University Press (1979)

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While things on the surface seem more quiet than at any time since last summer, I do not like the maintenance of what amounts to almost full mobilization in aggressor countries. Surely they cannot afford it and if they had any definite policy of trying to work out economic salvation (except by arms) they would be showing some signs of cutting military expenditures.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. Letter, June 6, 1939, to U.S. Ambassador to Poland Anthony J. Drexel Biddle. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Foreign Affairs, Second Series. Photocopies of documents from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, New York, vol. 15, p. 224, ed. Donald B. Schewe, Clearwater Publishing (1969).

The President had been convinced since the Czech crisis that war was imminent and that Chamberlain's appeasement policy would not deter Hitler from further aggression.

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