Pointing out that, the entire United States "programme of aid for the democracies has been based on hardheaded concern for our own security, and for the kind of safe and civilized world in which we wish to live." the President declared that "every dollar Of material we send helps to keep the dictators away from our own hemisphere.
"Every day they are held off gives us time to build more guns, tanks, planes and ships.
"We have made no pretense about our own self interest in this aid.
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