Charles Lindbergh's Speech Analysis

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This primary source, is a speech given by Charles Lindbergh, on April 23, 1941, at an America First Committee meeting in New York, where he addressed prime reasons for the war from a practical viewpoint. He believed in order for a nation to survive, its principles must be supported by reasoning of military practicability.

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