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Nile Kinnick correspondence, March-October 1943
1943-03-23: Page 02
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who won't stand or fall on such important issues? Knowing what he did, Roosevelt should have came out for placing the industrial and military might of this nation against Germany and Japan five or six years ago. With the popular support he commanded he probably could have swung the issue. Certainly in the 1940 campaign he should have done so, for he was opposed by a man who was just as internationally minded as he. But instead he solemnly pledged that no American boy would ever again fight on foreign soil - a statement upon which I have made fervent comment before. The President is a very great man in many respects and he has been responsible for much social progress in this country but he is laboring under the delusion of indispensability. This concept continually results in the sacrifice of principle to expediency and politics. It is insidiously sapping the moral vigor of the nation's people. There are times for greatness and uncompromising adherence to obligations of right against wrong. A government should stand or fall on such important issues,
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who won't stand or fall on such important issues? Knowing what he did, Roosevelt should have came out for placing the industrial and military might of this nation against Germany and Japan five or six years ago. With the popular support he commanded he probably could have swung the issue. Certainly in the 1940 campaign he should have done so, for he was opposed by a man who was just as internationally minded as he. But instead he solemnly pledged that no American boy would ever again fight on foreign soil - a statement upon which I have made fervent comment before. The President is a very great man in many respects and he has been responsible for much social progress in this country but he is laboring under the delusion of indispensability. This concept continually results in the sacrifice of principle to expediency and politics. It is insidiously sapping the moral vigor of the nation's people. There are times for greatness and uncompromising adherence to obligations of right against wrong. A government should stand or fall on such important issues,
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