Evening star., 1941-08-31
President Saws
Peace 'Isn'tAI
In Our Keeping
Charge Thot Axis
Plans Domination
Of U. S. Is Quoted
BY JOHN c. HENRY,
Star Staff Correspondent.

HYDE PARK, N. Y, Aug 30
President Roosevelt warned Amer
lea of ever-increasing dangers of
war here today, and that peace for
Americans isn't all in our keeping.
The President quoted a charge
that domination of the world, in
cluding the Americas, was planned
by the dictators and indorsed a
thought that only through the de-
feat of Hitlerism can peoples every
where attain peace and live in peace.
The Chief Executive spoke eX-
temporaneously to several hundred
neighbors and friends-members of
the Roosevelt Home Club, holding
its 18th annual meeting on the lawn
of Moses Smith, tenant farmer on
the Roosevelt estate.
Labor Day Pronouncement.
In separate pronouncement on
Labor Day, he called for a new
affirmation of the high resolve that
not as workers alone. not as en-
ployerS alone, not as farmers alone,
but as united and determined peo-
pie We shall defend our democracy
to the utmost. with no labor and no
sacrifice too great" Speaking conf
IDENTITY of the successful compile
tion" of the task that lies ahead"
the President sounded a clear call
to labor and to industry to guaran-
tee the Nation full and uninterrupt-
ed maximum effort-an obvious ap-
peal for an end of work stoppageS
from whatever cause within control
Standing on flag bedecked
wooden platform under a half dozen
giant maple trees, Mr.. Roosevelt
gave full weight to the peaceful
quality of this background in i'm
pressing on his listeners the gravity
of the world situation.
1t is the third meeting of ours"
he said. since this world has been
convulsed with all kinds of dam
gers. They are not over yet and
it is very possible that they may
be even more serious at this moment
than they were at the end of Au-
gust and the beginning of Sep
tember, 1889
And yet. here We are in this
scene that is essentially a scene of
peace, living almost normal lives
Decision Isn't Ours.
"We have great deal to be
thankful for" he went on, "includ-
ing the fact that this is still
peaceful gathering-the third time
in succession think all of us pray
that next year-we will still be able
to say that.
"Yet as you know" he added,
"it isn't all in our keeping. 1t isn't
all our decision"
The Presidents Endorsement OF a
prayer for defeat of Hitlerism came
in the reading of a letter written
to him bv the wife of a man who
has travelled all over the world in
the service of the Government.
Describing the writer as a good
observer-who has seen things in
the world at first hand-who knows
geography and knows other coun-
tries" Mr. Roosevelt read with
marked emphasis:
"* = 1t is terrifying coming from
Europe. to realize that many of
these people seem to have no
idea of what hangs over their heads
TODAY -
Having seen with my own, eyes
the cruel and ruthless sweep of the
dictator armies through Europe in
the first year of the war; having
contact with the expansion of that
sweep to Africa and Asia during
the second year of the war-and
especially because personal, prac-
tical experience proves the point
I know that world domination, in
cluding of necessity the Americas,
is the definite planned purpose of
the dictators.
Victims Ha's Faith in Z. S.
Finally, I want to say to you
that in Europe or Africa or Asia
there is not nation of those who
have suffered abuse whose people
are not aware of what America
stands for. They pray daily that
America will save itself by helping
greatly to defeat Hitlerism. They
pray for this because it seems to
them that that is the only way in
which peoples everywhere can at
tain peace and live in peace"
The President then added, IT sup
pose that's the thought we all have
We all feel it down deep in
our hearts that we want to keep
America so that in all the years to
come, long after we have gone, long
after there isn't any home club any
more, somebody in this township
perhaps on this lawn-will be able
(See ROOSEVELT, Page A-4.)