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Daily Archives: April 18, 2018

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The Four Freedoms: A Campaign Revisited

Foreign Service, Public Diplomacy Council, StudyBy Donald M. BishopApril 18, 2018

In his State of the Union Address of January 6, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress for authority to provide Lend-Lease assistance to the United Kingdom.  To strengthen his appeal, FDR traced a vision of “a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.” “The Four Freedoms” eventually became shorthand for the war aims of…

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