| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs - 1941 - 272 pages
...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.... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs - 1941 - 268 pages
...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.... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military Affairs - 1941 - 184 pages
...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 threat of war... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military Affairs - 1941 - 184 pages
...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 threat of war... | |
| Alexander DeConde - 2000 - 404 pages
..."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... | |
| Rick Atkinson - 2002 - 748 pages
...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... | |
| Garet Garrett - 2003 - 292 pages
...reasons Roosevelt won was his promise to stay out of war. On October 30, 1940, in Boston, he said, "I have said this before, but I shall say it again...boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars. " He said this many times. In his first speech after the election, he warned that if England fell,... | |
| Michael Waldman - 363 pages
...forces. Indeed, running for reelection for an unprecedented third term, Roosevelt himself declared, "I have said this before, but I shall say it again...boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars." In fact, Roosevelt believed the US had to help England, and ultimately, that we would have to enter... | |
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