PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Evening Star, Issue 23724, 4 November 1940, Page 8

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

FINAL STAGES OF CAMPAIGN ROOSEVELT'S VIGOROUS POLICY SPEECH frtu Association —By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, November 2. Prfesident Roosevelt, in his final major address in the election campaign, said: “ Every hour, every day we grow stronger. There is nothing secret about our foreign policy. The purpose is to keep the country out of war. At the same time we seek to keep foreign conceptions out of the United States. That is "why we make •urselves strong. That is why we muster all our reserves of national ■trength.

“ The second purpose is to keep the war as far as possible from the shores of the entire western hemisphere. Our policy is to promote friendly relations with the Latin Americas and Canada so that great Powers in Europe and Asia will know that they cannot divide the peoples of this hemisphere. We make it clear that we intend to commit none of the fatal errors of appeasement.”

1 President Roosevelt alleged that “ radical and ultra-conservative groups have combined to i form an unholy alliance.” They were seeking his defeat and the formation of a dictatorial form of government in the United States. He told a Democratic Party rally that these groups had reached a secret understanding threatening the future of democracy in the United States. '

The President, pointing out what the collaborative understanding between Communism and Nazism had done to democracy abroad, said: “There is something very ominous in the combination which is being formed within the Republican Party between the extreme reactionary and extreme radical ♦laments. There is no common ground •B which they can be united, unless it b* their common will to power, and their impatience with nonrial demooratic processes.”

, PRESIDENT’S OBJECTIVE, Summing up the objectives of the opposition vested interests, which, he said, aimed at a revival of government by special privilege in imitation of the foreign dictatorships. President Roi' velt concluded: “1 am fighting for those great and good causes, for the defence of them against the power and might of those now challenging them, and I shall not stop fighting.” The President denied a statemeni which he said had been made by a Republican official, that the United States Fleet was en route to, the west of Hawaii and would he sent to Manila after the election. President Roosevelt, in aji address at Cleveland, asked for re-election for one more term as a vote of confidence to enable him to continue his policies through the war period 'in Europe. He disclaimed personal ambition for power. The third term would he his last. “ When that term is over, there will be another President,” he said. AGGRESSOR NATIONS WARNED. In Washington the Secretary of i State (Mr Cordell Hull) urged the reelection of President Roosevelt. “It would be a tragedy for the country if the election should turn on spurious, counterfeit issues of foreign policy, artificially created to mislead voters,” he said. Mr Hull strongly defended President Roosevelt’s foreign policy and branded as “ utterly vicious ” charges that President Roosevelt was leading the counry into war. He warned aggressor nations “ desperately struggling to seize control of the oceans as an essential means of achieving and maintaining their conquest of other continents. Should they succeed, can anyone believe they would be content to leave us and other nations in this hemisphere at peace—unless we become subservient to their will? ”

PLANE DELIVERIES IS BRITAIN • REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE'S CRITICISM NEW YORK, November 2. The Republican candidate for the Presidency, Mr Wendell Willkie said: “ When the third-term candidate speaks about 26,000 planes for Britain, let us not fool the British people. We must am Britain with planes, not disarm her with political speeches. It will take years to fill their orders as a result of the New Deal stagnation of the aviation industry.” .e THREATENED PRESIDENT'S LIFE MAN AWAITING SENTENCE WASHINGTON, November 1. Bdward- Blount pjeaded guilty to two charges of threatening the life of President Roosevelt, and was committed to gaol pending sentence. Blount was accused of saying that he intended to kill President. Roosevelt if he had a chance.