Evening star., 1940-07-05
Sees Too Many in
U. S. Leaning to
Appeusement
BY JOHN C. HENRY,
81. ~.1

HYDE PARK, N. Y, July S.
President Roosevelt warned
America today against any ap-
peaSement or compromise with
the worlds totalitarian states.
Speaking gravely at a press
conference in the new Roosevelt
Library on his family estate, the
Chief Executive asserted that too
many Americans already are
thinking in terms of compromise
or acquiescence as an exchange
for the relative efficiency of the
corporate states.
Actually. he said, world peace and
stability can be founded only on five
broad principles of the democratic
way of life. He enumerated them as
follows:
/. Freedom of information-the
press, forms of communication, edu-
cational facilities, etc. Only through
these, he explained can the worlds
peoples know what is being done or
what should be done
@ Freedom of religion. vitality es-
sential to peaceful living, this has
been maintained fairly we'll in the
democracies, Mr.. Roosevelt said, but
is not being observed today in the
corporate states.
Freedom of Expression.
3. Freedom of xpresSion-eXcept
to the extreme of preaching over
throw of government by. force.
4. Freedom from fear. More pre-
cisely, he declared, this means world
disarmament, by which would be re-
moved threats of attack and aggres-
sion.
S. Freedom from want-the re-
moval of barriers for free exchanges
of commerce and culture.
Bluntly, as he spoke in obvious
distaste for their principles of gov
ernment. Mr.. Roosevelt named Ger
many, Italy and Russia as exam
piles of the corporate state.
According these states only the
single virtue of efficiency, the Chief
Executive remarked several times
on the existence of tangible COM
promise sentiment in this country.
He made it thoroughly clear that
he considered such an attitude dan
gerous and unwholesome.
Still Holds Hope.
Mr.. Roosevelt's informal discus
sion of world PHILOSOPHERS was
touched off by the question of
whether he had surrendered hopes
for his long-range peace objec-
tives, voiced at various times. Re-
marking that he had not, he then
dipped deeply into his personal feel
ings about the state of things.
Laying the groundwork, he spoke
first Of the growth of new sys-
TENS of government to a point
where they control or threaten to
control very large portions of the
worlds population. These systems,
all grouped loosely into the cate
CORY OF corporate states, deny Ger
tain fundamental liberties which
the American people were the first
to seek and to establish.
Actually, he said, government
embracing these liberties and safe
guarding them through the bal
ances of executive, legislative and
judicial arms, is almost an Ameri-
can invention, dated 1776. Since
then, he went on, others have cop
led the broad form of this type
OF government, but today most
of these others have been ended
by conquest.
In their place has appeared the
corporate state, lacking the legis-
lative and judicial safeguards of
democracy, and substituting, what
some consider, greater efficiency
in operation. In such States. he
continued, there is no need for COM
promise in the creation or eXecu-
ton of laws-no time lag such as
exists here where there must be a
reconciliation OF all three arms of
Government before an action is
final.
Question Before People.
Unfortunately, he continued, there
are many Americans either by words
or by silence who are playing into
the hands of those would would sur
render the democratic privileges in
return for corporate efficiency.
Leaving no doubt of his own
feeling, the President asserted that
the question is definitely before
the American people as to whether
(See ROOSEVELT, Page A-4.)