Read this excerpt from Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "Fireside Chat 19: On the War with Japan": I can say with utmost confidence that no Americans today or a thousand years hence, need feel anything but pride in our patience and in our efforts through all the years toward achieving a peace [with Japan] in the Pacific which would be fair and honorable to every nation, large or small. Which statement is the most reasonable inference about one of the underlying meanings of this excerpt?
A.
The United States did everything it could to avoid war with Japan.
B. The United States warned Japan repeatedly that it was willing to go to war.
C. Americans are a proud people who always support their country.
D. Future Americans will feel pride in the efforts to avoid war with Japan.