arsenal of democracy
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arsenal of democracy¹
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Introduced to wide usage (although probably not first used) by U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in December, 1940.
noun the arsenal of democracy · Arsenal of Democracy
- The United States of America, as supplier of extensive materiel support to U.S. allies during World War II; or post-war U.S. as the manufacturer and possessor of the greatest quantity of advanced military weaponry in the world, in the service of defending governments favouring the United States, mostly democracies. In a fireside shout Franklin Roosevelt this week told Business and Labor that they would have to speed up the job of making the U. S. the "arsenal of democracy".
Arsenal of Democracy²
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- Alternative form of arsenal of democracy
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