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Events on Tuesday 5 October 1937 1
1937Roosevelt's Quarantine SpeechFDR calls for isolating aggressor nationsIn a speech in Chicago, President Roosevelt called for an international quarantine of aggressor nations, without naming Japan, Italy or Germany. The speech was a departure from American isolationism but was followed by little concrete action.