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Pearl Harbor, Part 1 of 3

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War Is Inevitable

Despite the peace talks the united states has already picked aside. Roosevelt is supplying ships, planes, tanks and ammunition to the british and their allies. He compares this military aid to lending a hose pipe to a neighbour whose house is on fire. You lend it so your neighbour can put out the flames that threaten to burn down your own house. So our country is going to be what our people have proclaimed. It must be the arsenal of democrac our country will play its full part. And when, no, i didn't say if, i said: When dictatorships disintegrate, a the good ap you man. The surprise of december seventh was not that the country went to

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