MR. ROOSEVELT'S SPEECH
POINTS BY CRITICS
(Rec. 11.20 a.m.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. American comment stresses that the .most serious lack in President Roosevelt's speech is any examination of the domestic situation or of any effort to answer allegations of delay in achieving the internal organisation necessary ior victory.
Critics say that the President failed to provide a unified command for the military and naval forces, to deal with labour problems, enemy aliens, and "fifth columnists." and efficiently to organise civilian defence or to call into the inner circles of government new and more efficient figures.
Mr. Walter Lippmann, who has been an unwavering friend of the President, says: "The bottleneck of bottlenecks is in the White House itself, in the inertia and complacency of Mr. Roosevelt himself when it is a question of divesting himself of authority and detaching himself from friends who are unequal to their task."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 47, 25 February 1942, Page 5
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