PEOPLE INVITED TO “BREAK THEIR BONDS”
BOLD VETO AGAINST DICTATORIAL ORGANISATION OF WORLD SPEECH BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT 'United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 15th April, 9.40 a.m.) NEW YORK, 1 4th April. Speaking on the occasion of the sesquicentenary celebration of Washington, President Roosevelt pledged the United States economic support and readiness to match “force to force” if necessary for defending the Western Hemisphere nations against foreign aggression. The President took the role of spokesman for the west in a bold veto against dictatorial organisation of the world. His words, apparently inviting the plain people of Totalitarian States to “break their bonds,” were translated for shortwave delivery in six languages to every corner of the globe. President Roosevelt reminded all men that “they have within themselves the power to become free any time.” Carrying the thought further he said: “The truest defence of peace in our Hemisphere must always lie in the hope that our sister nations beyond the seas will break the bonds of ideas which constrain them toward perpetual warfare. By example we can at least show them the possibility that we too have a stake in world affairs.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 15 April 1939, Page 7
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