The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-27
ROOSEVELT HAS
 PLEDGED WORD
Continued from Page D

l
 lis free discussion as exeInpli- fled by the objectives of the forum to which I am speaking.
 Free discussion is most greatly useful when it is restrained and re- lates to facts. It is not useful to suggest either to the American people or to the peoples of other nations that the American govern ment, its policies, its practices and it's servants are actuated by motives of dishonor or corruption. To do so is, of necessity, an attack on the American system of constitutional representative government itself"
 He reiterated the principle of re- ciprocal obligations among good neighbors.
 Sanctity of Treaties
 "There must be-" he explained, "a deliberate and conscious will that such political changes as changing needs require shall be made peace fully. That means a due regard for the sanctity of treaties. It means a deliberate avoidance of policies which arouse fear and distress. It means the self-restraint to refuse strident ambitions which are sure to breed insecurity and intolerance and thereby weaken the prospect of that economic and moral recovery the world so sadly needs" Offers to Disarm | MT. Roosevelt accompanied has pledge to arm with an offer to dis arm, but he refused to check Amer ican preparedness in return for mere promises from other nations. Ills speech further indicated the upwa-d trend of armaments expenditures. The New Deal has been re-arming the nation at a 1000 000, ,O00-a-year rate and probably will boost the spending by another $150, 100000 in the next fiscal year.
 | He said the United States had no interest in war and coveted nothing except good relations with our neigh borS.
 we in the United States" he said. 'do not seek to impose on any other people either our way of life or our internal form of government. But we are determined to maintain and protect that way of life and that form of government for ourselves. And we are determined to use every endeayor in our power in order that the western hemisphere may work out its own interrelated salvation in the light of its own interrelated experience.
 Must Not Threaten World
 And we affirm our faith that what ever choice of way of life a people makes, that choice must not threaten the world with the disaster of war. The impact of such dis aster cannot be confined. It re- leases floortide of evil emotions fatal to civilized living. That state- ment applies not to the western hemisphere alone but to the whole of Europe and Asia and Africa and the island of the sea"
 MT. Roosevelt said that the United States had consistently contended that no nation would accept dis armament while neighbors armed and that we will arm unless there is general disarmament. Ordinary rules of common sense require that, he said, until weapons capable of ag- gression generally are abandoned.
 Armament Race Absurd
 we will insist" he continued, 'that an armament race among na- tions is absurd unless new terri tories or new controls are coveted by some. We are entitled, think, to greater reinsurance than can be given by words:
 "The kind of proof which can be given, for example, by actual dis cusisons. leading to actual disarma- ment. Not otherwise can we be re- lieved of the necessity of increasing our own military and naval estab- l;shments. For while we refuse to accept as a permanent necessity the idea of force, and reject 1t as an deal of life. we must be prepared .o meet with success any application of fogce against us."
 A -a-a