Evening star., 1941-11-11
President Vows
Eternal Fight
For Liberties
Speaks at Tomb of
Unknown Soldier
At Arlington
TEXT OF SPEECH by President
Roosevelt at Arlington exercises.
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MANY SERVICES throughout city
mark Armistice Day celebration.
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mark Armistice Day celebration.
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Americans will fight eternally''
to preserve their liberties. Presi-
dent Roosevelt told the Nation to-
day in solemn ceremony before
the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
AT the Arlington Amphitheater.
Those who died in the last World
War. he reminded his listeners, did
so to make those liberties safe for
all time.
And it," he added then. by
some fault OF ours who lived be-
yond the war, its safety has again
been threatened, then the obliga-
ton and the duty are ours. 1t is
in our charge now, as il was Amer
ica's charge after the Civil War, to
see to it that these dead shall not
have died in vain"
This duty of fighting eternally. If
such becomes Our obligation, we
owe not to ourselves alone Mr..
Roosevelt concluded, but to the
many dead who died to gain our
freedom for us-to make the world
place where freedom can live
and grow into the ages"
Address Broadcast.
The President made his brief ad-
dress in the circular shrine OF the
national cemetery as a feature Of
the 23d annual Armistice Day cere-
mony sponsored by the American
Legion. His words were broadcast
on the major radio networks
Other addresses were made during
the services by Lynn U. Stambaugh,
national commander of the Amer
ican Legion; Haywood n. Saunders,
District Of Columbia Legion COM
mander, and Mrs. Mark w. Murrill,
national president OF the Legion
Auxiliary.
Emphasizing that wars for peo-
pies liberties are worth fighting and
worth winning al any price. the
President asserted that the Nation
knows now that it was in literal
truth. to make the world safe for
democracy that we took up arms in
1917. 1t was, in simple truth and in
literal fact. TO make the world hab-
liable for decent and respecting
men that those whom we now re-
member gave their lives. They died
to prevent then the very thing that
now. a quarter century later. has
happened from one end of Europe
to the other
Aggression Victims Enumerated.
Other peoples have known the
need and the merit in fighting to
the fullest in defense of liberty. the
President went on, and with en-
phatic deliberation then he called
the roll of those who are living
today without that liberty-the
French. Czechs, Poles. Danes. Dutch,
Serbs, Belgians, Norwegians and
the Greeks.
Before he took his place at the
speakers stand in the amphitheater,
Mr.. Roosevelt stood respectfully at
attention in the chill autumn wind
while Capt. John r. Beardall, his
naval aide, placed a huge wreath at
the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
In plain view to the east was the
shining Potomac River with a half
dozen service planes circling up
from Boiling Field. An Army and
marine detachment stood at atten-
tion also as bugler played Taps" "
Accompanying the Grief Executive
from the White House to the cere-
mony were Secretar of War Stimson,
Secretary of Navy Knox. Gen.
George C. Marshall, Army Chief of
Staff; Admiral Harold R. Stark,
chief of Naval Operations, and Maj.
Gen. Thomas w. Holcomb, COM
mandant of the Marine Corps. Brig.
Gen. Albert L. Cox. commander of
the Washington Provisional Brigade,
also was in the party. as was Mrs.
Knox and Postmaster General
Walker.
The President entered the amphi-
theater on the arm of Maj. Gen. Ed
ward M. Watson, his military aide
and secretary.
Stambaugh Gives Talk.
After the Presidents address,
Lynn U. Stambaugh, national COM
mander of the American Legion,
called for a conservation of all citi-
zens in the spirit of the Ameri-
canism of the Unknown Soldier to
"the task ahead"
THAT task" he added. lin peace
or war, will not be easy"
Declaring that the spirit of
Americanism now cannot be "the
spirit of the soft and easy way" Mr.
Stambaugh said the main national
objective today lis the defeat of
Hitler and what he stands for"
by the defeat of Hitlerism,' he
continued, I'VE mean the perpetual
ton of Americanism, an Ameri-
canism of which you (speaking to
the Unknown SOLDIER who fell to
save America may we'll be proud"
The national commander conclud-
ed by pledging to the Unknown Sol
Gee ADNEYCTI~r