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US President Roosevelt...

history · 16 August 1940 · 84 years ago

US President Roosevelt announced in a press conference that the United States had engaged with the United Kingdom to acquire land for military bases in the Western Hemisphere. No mention was made regarding the transfer to destroyers from the US to the UK. 

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