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United States of America.
American President Franklin D Roosevelt making Christmas-time speech to the American people. He speaks about hopes for peace. He talks about the Pan-American Conference taking place at that time. He talks about the Spirit of Christmas. He quotes Isaiah about beating swords into ploughshares.
N.B. Roosevelt’s Christmas Eve speech 1939.
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