US Presidency
1943

My Fellow Americans: Over a year and a half ago I said this to the Congress: The militarists in Berlin, and Rome and Tokyo started this war, but the massed angered forces of common humanity will finish it. Today that prophecy is in the process of being fulfilled. The massed, angered forces of common humanity are on the march. They are going forward on the Russian front, in the vast Pacific area, and into Europe converging upon their ultimate objectives: Berlin and Tokyo. I think the first crack in the Axis has come. The criminal, corrupt Fascist regime in Italy is going to pieces. The pirate philosophy of the Fascists and the Nazis can not stand adversity. The military superiority of the United Nations on sea and land, and in the air has been applied in the right place and at the right time. Hitler refused to send sufficient help to save Mussolini. In fact, Hitler's troops in Sicily stole the Italians ' motor equipment, leaving Italian soldiers so stranded that they had no choice but to surrender.