Event
Roosevelt gives his famous Quarantine Speech in Chicago
5 Oct 1937 · 41.89° N, 87.61° W
What the records say
- When
- 5 Oct 1937
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 41.89° N, 87.61° W
- Description
- Roosevelt gives his famous Quarantine Speech in Chicago.
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Quarantine Speech
1937 speech by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Quarantine Speech was a speech given by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Chicago on October 5, 1937. The speech called for an international "quarantine" against the spread of the "epidemic of world lawlessness" by aggressive nations as an alternative to the political climate of American neutrality and non-intervention that was prevalent at the time.
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