The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-15

Continued from Page i.) four words suggested the steel hand beneath the velvet glove of friend" skip. The words were c pledge to defend not the United States alone, but to defend our neighborhoodd."
 Four Specific Points
 Mr. Roosevelt made four specific points in e program to maintain American neutrality and peace in c world of war and threatening war. These points were:
 1. Insistence that American bust. ness, industry and agriculture fore- swear profits from foreign conflicts.
 2, Cultivation of an active and vigorous public opinion in favor of peace.
 3. Greatest oficial caution to avoid any step or action which might lead toward embodiment Of the United States in war.
 {. Extension and development of the good neighbor policy" in the western hemisphere, seeking to weld North and South America into an area, comprising half the world, in which peace always will reign.
 Anath sma Against War
 At one point the president spoke Q personal anathema against war and his voice was even more force. ful than hls words.
 T have seen war" he said.
 T have seen war on land and sea,
 T have seen blood running from the wounded.
 T have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs.
 T have seen the dead in the mud.
 T have seen cities destroyed.
 "I have seen 200 limping, ex. hausted men come out Of the line the survivors of c regiment of i,- 900 that went forward 48 hours bee fore.
 "i have seen children starving.
 T have seen the agony of moth. CTS and wives.
 T hate war,
 "Yos, have passed unnumbered hours, and I shall pass unI1urn. bered hours thinking and planning how war may be kept from the United States of America.
 Ills Wish For Peace
 T wish l could keep war from all nations; but that iS beyond my power. I can at least make certain that no act of the United States helps to produce or to promote war. 1 can at least make clear that the conscience of America reVoltg against war and that any nation which proVokes war forfeits the sympathy Of the people of tho United staetS."
 The president seemed to confess his disillu8ionmcnt over the work. ability of 6 good neighbor" policy amid Europe's political intrigues, racial social and religious hatredB; economic greed, historical animoB. itieG and territorial ambitions.
 The president made c pointed dis. tinction between "our Loot neigh. bors" Of the western hemisphere and merely "our neighbors across the seas"
 Old World Devastated
 Turning to Europe. he said "a dark old world was devastated by wars between conflicting religions. A dark modern world faces wars be- tween conflicting economic and poe litical fanaticisms in which are in. tertwined ace hatreds.'
 Contributing to the war fever in Europe, he said, were "ancient ha- treds, turbulent frontiers, the legacy of old forgotten, far-on things, and battles long ago. There are new. born fanaticiSms, convict ctions on the part Of certain peoples that they have become the unique depositor- ies Of ultimate truth and right"
 The United States wants no part of these things, or of the warg which may grow out of them, he said in calling upon the American people and American business to assist the government in keeping the country out of war by foregoing the quick profits of war boom trade with bel- ligerentS. He termed these profits fools gold" which he said would later blight the nation.
 War Profits Hit
 'It is clear that our present pol- icy and the measures passed by the congress would in the event of a war on some other continent, rec duce war profits which would other wise accdue to American citizens" {" he said, Industrial and agricul- tural production for a war market may give immense fortunes to a few men; for the nation as Q whole 1t produces disaster.
 Nevertheless, if war should break out again in another conti- nent let us not blink the fact that we would find in this country thou sands of Americans who, seeking immediate riches--fools' gold would atempt to break down or evade our neutrality.
 They would tell you-and, un- fortunately, their views would get wide publicity-that if they could produce and ship this and that and the other article to belligerent na- tions. the unemployed of America would all find work. T hey would tell you that if they could extend credit to warning nations that credit would be used in the United States to build homes and factor les and pay our debts. They would tell you that America once more would capture the trade of the world.
 Hard To Resist CIameP