The Archive · 1941

President's Message

The British Ambassador read a lengthy diploma stating that Prectd ut Roosavelt "has at all times been inthe fight for peace, justice and freedom, and torlay has not only fendeq liberty by his inspiring. elo quence, but has brought, and in ever-increasing measures is still bringing, the material help required to President Roosevelt then quoted air, Winant's statement on observing the statue of Abraham Lincoln stand-Jing near the wreckage: "And as an 'American T was proud that he was there in all that wreckage as a friend and sentinel of the gallant days that have gone by, and a reminder in this great -baitle for freedom, that he waited quietly for support' for those things for which he lived and died." responding by proxy through declared: "AM the world can be To this the President added: "We too are born to freedom and, believing in freedom, are willing fo Sight maintain freedom. We, and all

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