The Archive · 1940

Mrs, Rossevelt Appeals For War Fund

Washington, May 27.

Broadcasting a nation-wide appeal fon behalf of the Red Cross war relief. fund, Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt, wite of the President, said: "If we turn away from the need of others we lign ourselves with those forces fe bringing about this suffer-Ing and which we must eventually. try to defeat."

She appealed to Americans to "give jas never before."

"One great commandment that reigion has given us, love thy neigh-Jbour as thyself,' has been forgotten," she said—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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