The Arsenal of Hope

摘要

In the dark days of December 1940, almost six months to the day after the Battle of Dunkirk and the fall of France, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a very important speech. To put things into perspective, it was still a year before the attack on Pearl Harbor, and Roosevelt, who most likely knew then that the United States would eventually be brought into the war, was walking a tightrope between those in the United States who wanted to stay out of the war, and Great Britain's (specifically Churchill's) pleas for military assistance.