The Archive · 1941

Hard Work Necessary

"You will be obliged to work overtime. and work harder than ever before in your life" President Rooevelt said.

"It our kind of civilization gets run over—the kind of peace we seek will become unattainable.

He declared that "in the comparative calm of this week it has become more than ever clear that the time calls for courage and more courage action and more action.

"In our: own day the threat to our union and our democracy is not a sectional one," he said. "It comes from a Great part of the world which Rhreats from, Dictatorships These are the eternal principles which now are being threatened by an alliance of dictatorship nations," he Said, thereby obviously referring to the tripartite alliance.

The history of the nations con. quered during the past year should show us and the remainder of the world. what it means to live in a world organized and ruled by a Gestapo," President Roosevelt said.

President Roosevelt then broadened his reference to include Communists, declaring they had betrayed the French workers prior to and during the German invasion of France—United Press,

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