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... United States as senior partner might have been maneuvering them into . They had been told very little of what was going on and felt they might well find themselves far out on the end of a shaky limb , ready for a bone - shattering drop ...
... United States as senior partner might have been maneuvering them into . They had been told very little of what was going on and felt they might well find themselves far out on the end of a shaky limb , ready for a bone - shattering drop ...
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... United States as a possible but not sure combatant . But even though the Japanese might not immedi- ately attack the United States- " fire the first shot " -Roosevelt had obli- gated the United States to go to immediate British and ...
... United States as a possible but not sure combatant . But even though the Japanese might not immedi- ately attack the United States- " fire the first shot " -Roosevelt had obli- gated the United States to go to immediate British and ...
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... United States operations in the mid - Pacific and the Far East would be conducted in such a manner as to facilitate the exertion of its principal military effort in the Atlantic or navally in the Mediterranean . The massive stickler in ...
... United States operations in the mid - Pacific and the Far East would be conducted in such a manner as to facilitate the exertion of its principal military effort in the Atlantic or navally in the Mediterranean . The massive stickler in ...
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