Free French Navy

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    Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.
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    I call to mind the navy great
    That the Greeks brought to Troye town,
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    Appeased the gods that them withstood.
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