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1941
FDR proclaims an unlimited national emergency
President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces a state of unlimited
national emergency in response to Nazi Germany's threats of world
domination on this day in 1941. In a speech on this day, he
repeated his famous remark from a speech he made in 1933 during
the Great Depression: the only thing we have to fear is fear
itself.
In a radio address delivered from the White House, FDR tried to
rally isolationists to his philosophy that aid to Europe was
purely in America's self-interest. In March 1941, he had
successfully pushed through the Lend-Lease Bill, which gave
military aid to any country vital to the defense of the United
States. Roosevelt recounted for his audience how German
submarines were boldly attacking British shipping and threatening
American shipping in the Atlantic and how Londoners endured
nightly raids of German bombers. He painted an almost apocalyptic
vision of a Nazi-controlled Western Hemisphere where American
workers would be enslaved by Germany, godless Nazis would outlaw
freedom of worship and America's children would wander off,
goose-stepping in search of new gods.
Roosevelt also took pains to define what he meant by America
being attacked. He insisted that an attack on the United States
can begin with the domination of any base which menaces our
security, for instance Canada, Brazil or Trinidad, and not just
when bombs actually drop in the streets of New York or San
Francisco or New Orleans or Chicago. He appeared to be urging
Americans to consider actively engaging in the war in Europe
stating it would be suicide to wait until they are in our front
yard.
FDR then laid out his administration's policy with regard to the
current war in Europe. Without committing troops, he promised the
protection of shipping in the Atlantic, continued humanitarian
and military aid to Britain, the establishment of a civilian
defense and warned of saboteurs and fifth columnists (communist
infiltrators) who threatened democracy in America and abroad. He
also condemned war profiteering and urged organized labor to
resist disruptive strikes in war-production industries.
Finally, FDR warned Germany that the U.S. was prepared to go to
war in case of attack and pledged to strengthen America's defense
to the extreme limit of our national power and authority.
Just over seven months later, the United States entered World War
II after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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