When fdr makes an allusion to the great wall of china in "four freedoms," his purpose is to illustrate that walling out the rest of the world is not the american way suggest that americans could benefit from china's ideas to improve safety convince congress to approve military action against the chinese emphasize his belief that china and america are no longer enemies

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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