Peace or War for U.S. Rests With People
MRS. ROOSEVELT’S VIEW LOS ANGELES, April 29. Mrs. Roosevelt, wife of the President, was given a protective escort of secretservice men for a lecture at the Philharmonic Auditorium last evening after an anonymous letter had been received that the meeting would be picketed for peaco. There was no disturbance. When asked: “Do you think the President will keep his promise and keep us out of the war?" Mrs. Roosevelt replied: “He hasn’t made any such promise; ho has said he wants peace. If it is possible to stay at peaco, ho will do so, but thu ultimate decision rests with the peoplo." To another interjcctor who said: “Tell the President we will not givo our lives in any place cxcopt in America," she declared: “Any American who will not fight in any place his country asks him to fight is not an American."
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 102, 1 May 1941, Page 7
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