Evening star., 1940-10-13
Broodcosts to World
Americas Will Not
Be Intimiduted
(Tert OF Presidents Speech on
Page A-7)
By JOHN C. HENRY,
ss-- ox.& ~4rrnc~NrJ Jay,t

Roosevelt served notice on the total
itarian axis tonight that the Amer
icas will not be intimidated by ag-
eressor nations, that they will de-
fend all the lands and seas OF this
hemisphere, and that the United
States will continue to the fullest its
policy of aiding Britain.
Speaking from his special train in
the railroad yards here, with ms
words broadcast simultaneously to
all the Americas and then re-broad-
cast in six languages to all the
world, the Chief Executive threw
these challenges at the Berlin
Rome Toxic axis:
/. "The Americas will not be
scared or threatened into the ways
the dictators want us to follow.
q. NO combination of dictator
countries OF Europe and Asia will
halt us in the path we see ahead
for ourselves and for democracy.
;. mo combination of dictator
countries of Europe and Asia will
stop the help we are giving to al
most the last free people fighting to
hold them at bay.
Defines Defense Area.
4. "The United States of America
Is mastering its men and resources,
arming not only to defend itself,
but, in cooperation with the other
American republics, to help defend
the whole hemisphere.
5. When we speak OF defending
this Western Hemisphere, we are
speaking not only of the territory
of North, Central and South Amer
lea and the immediate adjacent is
lands. We include the right to the
peaceful use of the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans. That has been our
traditional policy. We re-affirm that
policy, lest there be any doubt OF
our intention to maintain 1t.
9. "The people of the United
States, the people Of all the Amer
icas reject the doctrine OF appease-
ment. They recognize it for what 1t
is-a major weapon Of the aggressor
nations"
These were the highlights of
what the President himself called
'sblunt" speech. It was all Of that.
and more. even its Introductory and
transitional passages contained
plenty Of bite"
Aimed At Outside World.
Searchers for political implications
could find them In several passages
of this address but the pronounce
ments on the foreign policy OF this
Nation and of all the Americas
overshadowed any other significance
to the speech. Obviously, it was a
declaration written even more for
foreign consumption than for do
nestic, and as such 1t came more
from the President Of the United
States than from q candidate for
political ONCE. Mr.. Roosevelt left
Dayton for Washington on his spe-
cial train after concluding the ad-
dress.
In the very beginning, taking ad-
vantage Of the Columbus Day date,
Mr.. Roosevelt laid the groundwork
for a plea for unity; first among the
racial groups within each of these
81 republics, then among the repub-
lies themselves.
It was an introduction effective
not only for the purpose OF leading
into the familiar philosophy OF the
good neighbor" policy, but also as
q means of appealing particularly to
Americans of Italian ancestry-a
group which political observers fear
the President offended in his Char
lottesville address last spring when
he spoke bitterly of Italy's decision
to enter the war against France and
Britain.
To these Americans and their
italian forebears the Chief Execu-
tive accorded a careful commenda-
ton for their part in the histories
of all the western republics.
Hemisphere on Guard.
Ostensibly then in answer to those
who have charged the United States
with imperialistic designs within this
half of the world, the President as
serted early that no one group or
race in the new world has any de-
sire to subjugate the others. No one
nation in this hemisphere has any
desire to dominate the others. In
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