“On this tenth day of June, 1940, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.”

—  Franklin D. Roosevelt

Noting Italy's declaration of war against France on that day, during the commencement address at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville (June 10, 1940); reported in The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 (1941), p. 263
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