77TH CONGRESS                    SENATE                         DOCUMENT 
2d Session                                                       No. 188

DEVELOPMENT OF UNITED STATES
FOREIGN POLICY


ADDRESSES AND MESSAGES
OF
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT


COMPILED FROM OFFICIAL SOURCES, INTENDED TO
PRESENT THE CHRONOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF
THE FOREIGN POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES
FROM THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE GOOD
NEIGHBOR POLICY IN 1933, INCLUDING
THE WAR DECLARATIONS



UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
WASHINGTON: 1942



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SUBMITTED BY MR. OVERTON
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
March. 17 (legislative day, March 5), 1942.

Ordered, That certain addresses and messages of Franklin D. Roosevelt,  
compiled from official sources, intended to present the chronological  
development of the foreign policy of the United States from the  
announcement of the Good Neighbor Policy in 1933, including the War  
Declarations, be printed as a Senate document.  
 
Attest:  
Edwin A. Halsey  
Secretary.  
 
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                  "The duty of this day has been 
                   imposed upon us from without. 
                   Those who have dared to threaten 
                   the whole world with war-those 
                   who have created the name and 
                   deed of total war-have imposed 
                   upon us and upon all free peoples 
                   the necessity of preparation for  
                   total defense."  
 
                                          -Address to the Registrants.  
                                          October 16, 1940. Paper XX. 
 
                  "We don't like it-we didn't want 
                   to get in it-but we are in it 
                   and we're going to fight it with 
                   everything we've got."  
 
                                          -Address over the Radio.  
                                          December 9, 1941. Paper XXXII.  
 
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