The Archive · 1939

Remarks Interpreted Commenting on the President's

Warm Springs remark, the "Washington Post" said that, "it is proper te surmise that serious consideration preceded the utterance. Using the collective we,' the President told Hitler and Mussolini," the "Post" continued, "very impressively at Warm Springs that the tremendous force of the United States must be a factor in their current thinking...He told the Axis Powers that the Administration is far from indifferent to their plottings...He made it plain that any war forced by them would involve from the outset a nation which is potentially stronger than Ttaly and Germany united.

"To make that plain at this crucial time is to help preventing war. To make dictators realize there is a limit sted aggression is in itself a limit.

is on that reasoning and by the application of which peace can still be saved that President Roosevelt links the United States with an eleventh hour effort to avert a shattering disaster."—United Press.

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