...Republican Party is firmly opposed to involving this Nation in foreign war." The Democratic platform said : "We will not participate in foreign wars, and we will...outside of the Americas, except In case of attack." The President repeated these pledges again and again and again before a single draftee was called into...

...Republican Party is firmly opposed to involving this Nation in foreign war." The Democratic platform said : "We will not participate in foreign wars, and we will...outside of the Americas, except in case of attack." The President repeated these pledges again and again and again before a single draftee was called into...

...September 11, 1940, which reads thus : "I stand with my party upon the platform adopted at Chicago : "We will not participate in foreign wars and we will...outside of the Americas, except in case of attack." If now the situation is wholly changed so that in his judgment we must go to war, let him not waste...

...addresses took his stand on this platform: I stand with my party upon the platform adopted at Chicago: "We will not participate in foreign wars, and we will...outside of the Americas, except in case of attack." That was from the address to Teamsters' Union convention in Washington, September 11, 1940, by the...

...September 11, 1940, which reads thus : "I stand with my party upon the platform adopted at Chicago : "We will not participate in foreign wars and we will...outside of the Americas, except in case of attack." If now the situation is wholly changed so that in his judgment we must go to war, let him not waste...

...addresses took his stand on this platform: I stand with my party upon the platform adopted at Chicago: "We will not participate in foreign wars, and we will...our Army, naval, or air forces to fight in foreign lauds outside of the Americas, except in case of attack." That was from the address to Teamsters' Union...

...this— On October 23, 1940, at Philadelphia, he said: We are arming ourselves not for any foreign war. or air forces to fight in foreign lands outside of the Americas except in case of attack." It is for peace that I have labored, and it is for peace that I shall labor all the days of my life....

...conquest or intervention in foreign disputes. I repeat again that I stand on the platform of our party: "We will not participate in foreign wars and we will...outside of the Americas except in case of attack." It is for peace that I have labored, and it is for peace that I shall labor all the days of my life....

...split the convention wide open.11 It was therefore agreed to write into the platform the statement : "We will not participate in foreign wars, and we will...foreign lands outside of the Americas, except in case of attack."12 The adoption of this plank by the convention was most gratifying to Woodring, for it seemed...

...water and the nation forsook the gold standard. The Democratic platform of 1940 stated categorically, "We will not participate in foreign wars, and we will...outside of the Americas except in case of attack." In a memorable campaign speech in Boston, delivered during the ensuing campaign, Roosevelt repeated...