‘According to Henry Stimson, the United States was not going to war [..] merely because it had suffered “an incidental injury, gross and unbearable as that injury may be.” It was because Americans realized that what was at stake “upon the battlefields of Europe” was “the future of the free institutions of the world.”’
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