Miami University - Recensio Yearbook (Oxford, OH)

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TRIUMPH . E MBER , 941. In nother m nute the words were spoken which nged r wo ded at n, reeli g under a blow whic had spilled e blood into e P cific i st tw days before, toward a ar against wh' ll her emocrati instinc s re elled. Another X t y signed an eal more declara ions, an th United States XX Amer'ca, l me h or of isolationism, stood stripped of her false eace. merican sup le stung many an Allied foe, now the Axis trio was o feel th l Yank bayonet. Democratic day-dreams were out x . fo the duration. We had a shooting war on our hands. For some Ameri- ns there had never been a day-dream. Heading this list was President Roosevelt. Almost a year before, he had publicly stated his Four Freedoms -the four objectives of the war. Eight months later, he had discussed Amer- ica's growing danger with England's Churchill in the privacy of the Atlantic. The resulting eight-point document, the Atlantic Charter, became a definite peace aim before we were at war. It is these aims, and more particularly Y lfx cll l'l e'35 fq 3 f 1 EAP' . ' . N . f-. ' v 'J s. 3 , , f. -'ia' . .'- few- -.-, I - fa I . ' Z' -, ' I -P' :N V U - tif , - 1 A Je. . gf.-fi . .. . . k sf ..-. i er '11 ' N- .' W ' -' K .

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