The Archive · 1939

Dictatorships

4¢P)ICTATORSHIP involves costs which the American people will never pay," declared President Roosevelt amid prolonged cheers in his address before Congress yesterday.

"It involves the st of our spiritual value, and the blessed right of being able to Say what we please, the cost of freedom, the cost of our capital og confiscated, the cost of being east into concentration camps, and down the street with the wrong neighing children b lit up, not as free human the President deid enthusiastic applause.

"If the avoidance of these costs means taxes on my own income, on my estate, I would bear those taxes willingly, as the price of my breathing, and my children breathing, free air in a free country, and not living in a dead world," he went on. A packed house cheered and shouted wildly when President Roosevelt. entered.

The President was frequently applauded when he declaimed the fighting passages in his speech, especially when he outlined the methods whereby the United States could protect its own ideal of Government from the encroachments of foreign ideals. cur- were. sadors, and the Portuguese Minister. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, and the President's Mother, were among the crowded audience who heard the President's vigorous address. fid hat deficit at the end Would aggregate U.S.$44,458,-

104) revealed an estimated tal ex-budge the fiscal year of obs 863,000 and 320,000, hence lent said the foregoing estimated receipts showed an increase of U.S,9194,000,000 compared with the quet hee qur because of prospects of better general and business conditions throughout the gramme a cat and relief. cluded or pro-He explained the fog in-

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