There's a place where power politics and moral outrage intersect. In october 19 37, in a famous speech that the president of the united states, franklin delenor roosevelt, gives. He compares it to what you do when people have diseases, you quarantine them,. And he's suggesting that that's what should be done to these aggress States. Here's a sample of the 19 37 quarantine speech by president franklin delinor roose Roosevelt. It is my determination to adopt every practicable measure to avoid involvement in war. The peace of the world and the welfare and security of every nation, including our own, is to day being threatened by that very thing.
Deep themes run through this show, with allegations of Japanese war crimes and atrocities in China at the start leading to eerily familiar, almost modern questions over how the world should respond. And then Dec 7, 1941 arrives...