Evening star., 1941-12-01
President Revealed
As Prophet Of Nazi
Aim 10 Rule World
Documents Disclose
His Forecast Of War
5 Months in Advance


Five months before Germany in
vaded Poland. starting the Euro
pean war. President Roosevelt ex-
pressed his belief that Adolf Hitler S
Third Reich WAS committed to a
program Of world dominance
without limit.
At the same time Mr.. Roosevelt
said France and Great Britain had
decided that the Nan program must
be halted. and that Germany was
"souarely" on nctlce that response
hility for war would be Berlin's if
Germany invaded one more nation.
These statements and others Civ
ing Concisely history Of the
formula ton and pubiicizin9 of pres
day American foreign policy are
contained in a volume OF transcripts
Of President Rooseyelts press con-
ferences from January 4, 1853.
through January IA. 194l. The tran
scripts were releas sed today by the
White House in advance of the pub
lication of material from them in
second set OF Roosevelt papers
scheduled to be published soon in
book form.
The White House Yesterday re-
leased transcripts on conferences
extending from 1886 TO 1889
Hoped For Peace.
Afr Rooseveit's statements con-
cernlng Nazi aims of world doml-
nance were made at a press confer
ence al Warm Springs. Ga. on
March 81. 1889 He told reporters
at the time the material could not
be attributed to him.
On September l. 1939-the day
German troops marched into Poland
President Roosevelt at another
press conference expressed his hope
for continued peace for the Ameri-
can people
Responding to question. Can we
stay out?" Mr.. Roosevelt replied
that Il not only sincerely hope so
but l believe We can" and that
@every effort will be made by the
administration 10 do so"
The Presidents Warm Springs re-
marks of March, 1899. were made
IN response 10 questions as to what
was behind Germanys moves
threatening Poland and requests for
comment on indications that Eng
land and France would fight if Hit
Ter invaded Poland.
Mr. Roosevelt has since repeatedly
blamed Germany for starting the
war. and on that occasion said:
what is concerning Europe and
all the rest of the world is
that the hopes that the world had
last September tat Munich, that
the German policy was limited and
would continue to be limited. to
bringing contiguous German people
into the Reich. have been dis
sipated by the events of the last
few weeks
Brought in Nom G Germans.
I'm other words. they have brought
into the Reich great many million
Slavs: they have brought under
the domination of the Reich a great
Iiit L." iIAAIIlVll IliAiieCI Idll> anu lIlt'N
have brought in part under the eco
RON c domination of the Reich
ero1 r''nv million Rumanians. none
ct which squares with the an
nounCrd intention of Hitler up to
and through the events of last
autumn.
Therefore. it is felt by people in
every continent that where there
was limit last autumn. there is
no limit today. 1t makes very
different picture. And. there be-
ing no apparent limit today. this
new policy NAV logically be carried
out on An increasing scale in any
part of the world.
From our point of view such a
policy could, in the absence of anv
check TO it mean German
domination, not only in all the small
nations Of Europe. but very possibly
In other continents.
We also know from the news
papers that there have been many
stories Of the fear of Switzerland,
of the fears Of Holland and Dutch
colonies. of the fear of the Baltic
states, Finland. Esthonia. Latvia. of
the fears of the Yugoslavs. and the
fear of peoples in Asia Minor, Tur-
KEY and Persia. for example
In other words general fear Of
an effort by the Nazis to attain
world dominance, and make subject
to them a great many other nations
and races. That is what is giving
the world concern today.
SquareIy Up to Germany.
Nov. on the current situation, 1t
seems to have been made clear by
England and France today that
they have decided there must be a
halt to the continuation of a policy
seeking to dominate other nations
and peoples.
Therefore, by their action. it has
been put squarely up to Germany
that If there should be war it would
come only by an invasion Of some
other nation by Germany; that
there will be no war II there Is no
such invasion.
Thereby the world is being put
on notice as to where the RESPONSE
bility will lie II there is war
On July S. 1910, Mr.. Roosevelt, at a
press conference in Hyde Park. N. Y,
jtemized the freedoms" which are
basic objectives of this Nations con-
duct-freedom OF information, free
dom OF religion. freedom OF express
sion as long as 1t does not include
advocating overthrow OF the Gov
ernment. freedom from fear and
freedom from want
The volume made available today
does not contain any of the-record
discussions by the Chief Executive
by contrast with the earlier collec-
ton which included three confer
ences never before made public. The
transcripts chosen for publication
range from simplified statement Of
foreign policy on February 3, 1899,
through the Presidents vain ap-
peals to Europes leaders for mainte-
nance of the peace. his carefully
worded expression Of hope and be-
lief that this Nation could remain