Roosevelt Determined To Keep War From United States
WASHINGTON, September 11,
President Roosevelt, in a speech at the Teamsters’ Union convention, said America was rising to meet an evergrowing need for adequate physical and armed defence.
The President promised not to abandon Labour, which would gain as a result of rearmament. , At the same time he pointed out that in countries where unions had disappeared, the iron hand of dictators had taken command. He emphasised that people who yielded liberty for revolutionary promises received only a rationing of news, religion, clothes and bread. Must be United. “Our mighty defence efforts against all present and potential threats,” said Mr Roosevelt, “cannot be measured alone in terms of the mathematical increase in soldiers, sailors, guns, tanks and aeroplanes. “Behind all this must stand a united people. “I hate war more than ever. I have one supreme determination—to do all E can to keep war from these shores for all time. “Let us have an end to appeasement, which seeks to keep us helpless by playing on fear and by indirect sabotage of all the progress we are making.”
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Northern Advocate, 13 September 1940, Page 5
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