...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....

...October 23, 1940 — "We are arming ourselves not for any foreign war. * * * " :. 50 October 30, 1940 — "And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. * * *"..' 51 Rules: Head of departments can suppress anything and everything that the Board seeks to...

...October 23, 1940 — "We are arming ourselves not for any foreign war. * * * " I 50 October 30, 1940 — "And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. * * *" 51 Rules: Head of departments can suppress anything and everything that the Board seeks to classify...

...years of the Depression, which was just tapering off), and President Roosevelt himself had assured us, "I have said this before, but I shall say it again...boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars." So despite the fact that the Nazis had already conquered Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark,...

...were adamantly opposed to going to war, and Roosevelt, months away from an election, assured parents: "I have said this before, but I shall say it again...boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars. " Everything changed on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941. As droves of low-flying planes approached...

..."are following the road to peace." Seven days later in Boston he told American mothers and fathers, "I have said this before, but I shall say it again...boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars." He later rationalized this commitment, to himself as to others, by saying "If we're attacked it's no...

...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...

...only the Secretary of War, and people remembered that on October thirtieth the President had said, "And while I am talking to you, mothers and fathers,...boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars." On April eighteenth, at a White House press conference, the President expressed deep anxiety over the...

...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...