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FDR called for " a world-wide reduction of armaments " as a goal for " the future days, which we seek to make secure " but one that was " attainable in our own time and generation.

" More immediately, though, he called for a massive build-up of U. S. arms production: " Every realist knows that the democratic way of life is at this moment being ' directly assailed in every part of the world … The need of the moment is that our actions and our policy should be devoted primarily — almost exclusively — to meeting this foreign peril.

… he immediate need is a swift and driving increase in our armament production.

… I also ask this Congress for authority and for funds sufficient to manufacture additional munitions and war supplies of many kinds, to be turned over to those nations which are now in actual war with aggressor nations.

… Let us say to the democracies …'"