RESIDENT Roosevelt, in a radio broadcast to the nation last ight, ally rejected proposals at the United SI tes should a peace movement and confidently predicted ths the Rome-
Berlin-Tokyo Ax is will meet with defeat.
The President appealed to the American na into a great, arsenal of Democracy" and pledged the ex Americ n aid, "short of w: Britain, Mr. Roosevelt denounced Japan and other members of the Axis as sig atones of an "unholy alliance of pow designed to dominate 4nd enslave the human race."
The President promised the nation that" American soldiers would not bbe sent {0 fight in Burope. but pointe ed out that the United States must increase her material aid to Britai iran American war with the Axis Powers is to be averted in the future American independence and all things American independence means to ¥ou and me and ours.
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