...write into any contemplated legislation the substance of the President's October 30, 1940, promise: I have said this before, but I shall say it again...boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars. I thank you. (Witness excused.) The CHAIRMAN. Has Mr. Kyle come in? (No response.) The CHAIRMAN. Mr....

...write into any contemplated legislation the substance of the President's October 30, 1940, promise: I have said this before, but I shall say it again...boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars. I thank you. (Witness excused.) The CHAIRMAN. Has Mr. Kyle come in? (No response.) The CHAIRMAN. Mr....

...service. Typical is the following quotation from the President's address in Boston, October 30, 1940: "Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars. They are going into training to form a force so strong that, by its very existence, it will keep the...

...service. Typical is the following quotation from the President-s address in Boston, October 30, 1&40: "Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars. They are going into training to form a force so strong that, by its very existence, it will keep the...

...434, and I quote : And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. I have said this before, but I shall say it again...boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars. They are going Into training to form a force so strong that, by 'its very existence, It will keep the...

...and their well-being. nd while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more irance. have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again : our boys are not •going to be sent Into any foreign wars. '984'] They are going into training to...

...the President said: And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. I have said this before, but I shall say it again...boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars. They are going into training to form a force so strong that, by its very existence, it will keep the...

...the President said: And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. I have said this before, but I shall say it again...boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars. They are going into training to form a force so strong that, by its very existence, it will keep the...

...of homeland defense. Many preferred to heed President Roosevelt, who had promised a crowd in Boston, "I have said this before but I shall say it again...and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into foreign wars." Newspaper editorials across the Midwest caught the same spirit of denial. "World War...

...land. . . ." Speaking at Boston during that campaign, Roosevelt repeated a theme he referred to often: "I have said this before, but I shall say it again...boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars. . . . The purpose of our defense is defense." In the light of what happened subsequently some historians...