The President said the British wera stronger than ever in magnifeest moral and were braced for invasion whenever the attempt might come. He declared that the essence of Bri lish moral was "in the masses, plai people who are completely clear in Aneir minds that they would rath dig as free men than live as slaves:
Regarding China, the President declared: "China likewise expresses the magnificent will of millions of plain people to resist dismember~ mont of their nation. China, through Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, asks our help. America has said China shall receive our help, "Our country is going to be what our people proclaimed it—an arsenal of Democracy."
Mr. Roosevelt said that when the dictatorships disintegrated, "our country must continue to play its rear part in, the period of world "On the Record"
Washington, Mar. 10 solemn terms President Roose volt last night told the White House Correspondents' Association of the ual dinner of the Association in a speech broadcast to the world that the American nation was thoroughly aroused and was standing four-square the peril that threatened the democracies everywhere, including Americ 'The President prefixed his speech' with the pregnant phrase "Everything have to say is word for word on tha record", Referring to ald to China, the President said, "China ig like Britain, Greece and the other democracles fighting today."
Warning that sacrifice and inconvenience lay ahead for all, President Roosevelt said that "total victory" over dictators was to be the objective fof an American "oral effort" un= Alaggingly sustained, to place implements of warfare in the hands of nations resisting aggression.
People must be prepared for lower profits and longer hours, he said, and the effort must not be obstructed: by unnecessary strikes, war profiteering and other such things, "Appeasement Ended He hailed the passage of the "Lease-and-Lend" Bill as a decision ending all "attempts at appeasement in our and, the end of urging us to got along' with the dictators, the end of a compromise with tyranny and forces of oppression".
The address was one of the most vigorous utterances the Preaident has made, Tt bristled with the determtnation to World force, fal and industrial resources of the United States anew to that purpose.
The speech was later broadcast in 14 aifforent languages, including, those of the German-occupied coun trios, throughout the world.
The will of the American people "will not be frustrated either by threats of powerful enemies 01233 bby small and selfs groups dividuals at home," he said, There is not the slightest quest'en of doubt that the American people recognize the extreme seriousness of
they have demanded and got a policy the present striation. That is why of unqualified Immediate all-out aid to Britain, Greece and China and for all the governments in. exile whose homelands are temporarily occupied by the aggressors.
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