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ROOSEVELT, Franklin Delano, President. Typed document signed ("Franklin D Roosevelt") A MESSAGE TO CONGRESS, The White House, Washington, D.C., 12 December 1941. 1 page, folio, ink stamp at top "...referred to the Committee on [in manuscript] Foreign Affairs... to be printed."
FOUR DAYS AFTER PEARL HARBOR: "WE MUST FIGHT THEM, WITH ALL THE FORCES WE HAVE AND CAN GET"
The President emphatically reaffirms U.S. support for the Allies and transmits to Congress a report on Lend-Lease: "...We are now engaged in a total war against a group of Axis powers led by Nazi Germany and bent on world domination. Their strategy is world-wide. Ours must be world-wide. Underlying the Lend-Lease Act was the conception that those who were fighting the aggression of the Axis powers were fighting our potential enemies. The Axis powers now have openly declared themselves to be our enemies. We must not only help others to defeat them. We must fight them, with all the forces we have and can get. The world-wide strategy of the Axis powers must be met...And that means we must let Britain, Russia, China and other nations...use the weapons from that arsenal. Too much is at stake in this greatest of all wars for us to neglect peoples who are or may be attacked by our common enemies."
The Lend-Lease Act provided wartime aid to the allies, particularly Great Britain, and was carefully crafted to avoid breaking domestic or international law. Congress approved the measure overwhelmingly on 11 March 1941.
FOUR DAYS AFTER PEARL HARBOR: "WE MUST FIGHT THEM, WITH ALL THE FORCES WE HAVE AND CAN GET"
The President emphatically reaffirms U.S. support for the Allies and transmits to Congress a report on Lend-Lease: "...We are now engaged in a total war against a group of Axis powers led by Nazi Germany and bent on world domination. Their strategy is world-wide. Ours must be world-wide. Underlying the Lend-Lease Act was the conception that those who were fighting the aggression of the Axis powers were fighting our potential enemies. The Axis powers now have openly declared themselves to be our enemies. We must not only help others to defeat them. We must fight them, with all the forces we have and can get. The world-wide strategy of the Axis powers must be met...And that means we must let Britain, Russia, China and other nations...use the weapons from that arsenal. Too much is at stake in this greatest of all wars for us to neglect peoples who are or may be attacked by our common enemies."
The Lend-Lease Act provided wartime aid to the allies, particularly Great Britain, and was carefully crafted to avoid breaking domestic or international law. Congress approved the measure overwhelmingly on 11 March 1941.