“Generation after generation, America has battled for the general policy of the freedom of the seas. And that policy is a very simple one, but a basic, a fundamental one. It means that no nation has the right to make the broad oceans of the world at great distances from the actual theatre of land war, unsafe for the commerce of others. That has been our policy, proved time and (time) again, in all of our history. Our policy has applied from (time immemorial) the earliest days of the Republic — and still applies — not merely to the Atlantic but to the Pacific and to all other oceans as well.”
These remarks were made by FDR in a fireside chat to the American public on September 11, 1944.
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