This nation will remain a neutral nation, but I cannot ask that every American remain neutral in thought as well. Even a neutral has a right to take account of facts. Even a neutral cannot be asked to close his mind or his conscience. FDR and Harry: Unparalleled Livesпо Robert Underhill - 1996 - 232 странициНяма достъп - Информация за книгата
| United States. Department of State - 1943 - 908 страници
...partisanship and selfishness be adjourned, and that national unity be the thought that underlies all others. This Nation will remain a neutral nation, but I cannot...cannot be asked to close his mind or his conscience. I have said not once but many times that I have seen war and that I hate war. I say that again and again.... | |
| Colin Bingham - 1982 - 376 страници
...leakage. It takes a very strong head to keep secrets for years and not go slightly mad. cp SNOW, 1971 Even a neutral cannot be asked to close his mind or his conscience. FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT, 1939 In the future we may have to deal with a Europe dominated by Germany. An agreement... | |
| Manfred Jonas - 1985 - 340 страници
...but unlike his predecessor he did not call for neutrality of thought. "Even a neutral," he observed, "has a right to take account of facts. Even a neutral cannot be asked to close his mind or his conscience."6 The Second World War thus began for the United States on a different note from the one... | |
| Thomas H. Buckley, Edwin B. Strong - 1987 - 228 страници
...would not ask, as Wilson had, that "Americans remain neutral in thought as well as in deed." FDR said "even a neutral cannot be asked to close his mind or his conscience." With the proclamation of neutrality, the arms embargo went into effect. Roosevelt then tried to bring... | |
| Bhagevatula Satyanarayana Murty - 1989 - 392 страници
...degree not required by the community prescriptions was assumed. President Roosevelt's assertion in 1939, "Even a neutral has a right to take account of facts....cannot be asked to close his mind or his conscience," 51 indicates the traditional position more accurately. Even if the traditional doctrine required the... | |
| Jeffrey T. Sammons - 1990 - 376 страници
...specifically referred to "the final destruction of the Nazi tyranny" as a war objective.144 When FDR said, "This nation will remain a neutral nation, but I cannot...every American remain neutral in thought as well," he was probably speaking for himself first.145 The situation in Asia was equally explosive. In 1937... | |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt - 1992 - 364 страници
...partisanship and selfishness be adjourned; and that national unity be the thought that underlies all others. This nation will remain a neutral nation, but I cannot...remain neutral in thought as well. Even a neutral 1The first "Neutrality Proclamation" in American history was issued by Washington on April 22, 1793;... | |
| Michael E. Parrish - 1994 - 548 страници
...a radio audience on September 3, "I cannot ask that every American remain neutral in thought. . . . Even a neutral cannot be asked to close his mind or his conscience." Few mistook his meaning. In the fall of 1939, FDR had neither the authority not the desire to fight... | |
| James David Barber - 2011 - 355 страници
...i, 1939, the Nazis swept into Poland. "This nation must remain a neutral nation," Roosevelt advised, "but I cannot ask that every American remain neutral in thought as well," a statement that seemed to advertise a gap between conviction and performance. Speculation arose that... | |
| Johannes Reiling - 1997 - 472 страници
...begonnen. Franklin Delano Roosevelt erklärte an diesem Tag in einer Rede an das amerikanische Volk: "This nation will remain a neutral nation, but I cannot...ask that every American remain neutral in thought as well."447 Am 17. September rückte die Rote Armee in Ostpolen ein. Am 3. Oktober verkündete der US-Präsident... | |
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