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White House Study Of Defense Industrial Base Will Find A Decaying 'Arsenal of Democracy'
Loren Thompson , Contributor
In 1940, following major victories by fascist military forces in Europe and Asia, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed to a national radio audience that America could assist embattled democracies without fighting by becoming a "great arsenal of democracy." The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor a year later ended talk of staying out of the war, but Roosevelt's belief that U.S. industry could provide the foundation for defending democracy proved to be well-founded. America's industrial mobilization armed the allies and overwhelmed the enemy.
White House Study Of Defense Industrial Base Will Find A Decaying 'Arsenal of Democracy'
