Evening star., 1941-03-30
u. ). Is United
Against Threats,
President Says
Politics Discarded
In Jackson Day
Dinner Speech
(Tert OF Presidents address on
Page A-9.D
BY GOULD LINCOLN.

President Roosevelt proclaimed
to the world last night that a
united America stands ready to
oppose the threatened domina-
ton of dictator nations.
Speaking over the radio to
thousands of Democrats gathered
throughout the country at Jack
son Day dinners and to millions
of other Americans who listened
in, the Chief Executive discarded all
political partisanship.
We Americans have announced
our determination that, with all our
resources and all our power, we shall
help those who block the dictators
in their march toward domination
of the world" he said.
The decision we have reached is
not partisan decision. The leader
of the Republican party himself
Mr.. Wendell L. wilhelm word and
action is showing what patriotic
Americans mean By rising above
partisanship and rallying to the
common cause"
President to Head North Today.
The President spoke from the
wardroom of the presidential yacht
Potomac in Port Everglades, Fla.
harbor where disturbing weather
reports had driven the boat at the
end of his vacation sea trip.
Mr.. Roosevelt arranged to head
North today, with inspection stops
at Camp jackson, S. c., and Fort
Bragg, N. c., tomorrow. He will
arrive here Tuesday.
Expressing regret that he was un-
able to attend one of the many din
ners, but pointing out that on his
trip he was able to think things
through" the President said:
You still seek peace of mind and
of spirit, but you come to realize
that today you have to work over
time, and work harder than ever
before to make that peace possible
later on.
IF we sit down now we may get
run over later. And if our kind of
civil zation gets run over. the kind
of peace we seek will become an un-
attainable hope.
That is why, in the comparative
quiet of this week, l have become
more than ever clear that the time
calls for courage and more courage
action and more action
1t was fitting, the President said,
to pay honor to Andrew Jackson, a
great American who placed his de-
votion to country above adherence
to party. In his day, the threat to
the country came from within, a
sectional threat. Today, the PreSi-
dent asserted, the threat comes
from a great part of the world
which surrounds us, and which
draws more tightly around us day
by day"
Eternal Principles Threatened"
To do the job that is before the
country, the President continued,
I'VE Americans-nearly all of us
have risen above any consideration
of party politics" This, he said,
is something that the dictators can
not realize-that a two-party DO
litical system can exist and that
America can at the same time main
tain "an inviolate and indivisible
nation.
I'VE are determined so to act" he
continued, that Americans will go
on year after year, holding free cleo
tionS," and that all the great free
domS which are the basis of Ameri-
can democracy shall be maintained.
These eternal principles, he said,
"are now being threatened by the
alliance of dictator nations.
The enemies of democracy" the
President added, ARE now trying by
every means to destroy our unity
Propaganda is their chief weapon,
and it is disseminated within our
own borders by agents or innocent
dupeS of foreign powers.
'Propagandists, defeatists and
dupes," he said. protected as they
are by our fundamental civil liber-
ties. have been preaching and are
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