WORLD FAIR
OPENING SPEECH BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. (United Press Association—By Electric! Telegraph—Copy right). (Received this day at i 0.5 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 30. In opening the World’s Fair, President Roosevelt stressed America as a iand where tolerance rules, and expressed the hope that Europe would eventually break down the barriers of races and creeds and live in peace. “We in the United States —indeed in all the Americas.” the President said, “remember that our populations come from many races, kindreds and tongues. Often I think we Americans offer up a silent prayer that on the Continent of Europe, from which the American hemisphere was principally colonised, in future years will break down the many barriers to intercourse between nations —barriers which may be historic, but which so greatly throughout the centuries have, led to strife and hindered friendship and normal intercourse.” He expressed the opinion that the general participation in the fair by other countries wa s a gesture of friendship anfl goodwill.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 May 1939, Page 5
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