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“The House of Savoy never finished a war on the same side it started, unless the war lasted long enough to change sides twice,” a Free French newspaper commented sarcastically.”
― Commander in Chief: FDR's Battle with Churchill, 1943
― Commander in Chief: FDR's Battle with Churchill, 1943
“Secretary Hull was even more skeptical of de Gaulle than the President. He was equally opposed to the restoration of France’s colonial empire in the postwar world save as trusteeships — for how could American sons be expected to give their lives merely to reestablish a colonial yoke they themselves had thrown off in 1783?”
― Commander in Chief: FDR's Battle with Churchill, 1943
― Commander in Chief: FDR's Battle with Churchill, 1943
“It had been Theodore Roosevelt’s dictum — using a supposed West African proverb — that a successful leader should “speak softly and carry a big stick.”
― Commander in Chief: FDR's Battle with Churchill, 1943
― Commander in Chief: FDR's Battle with Churchill, 1943
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