Evening star., 1943-12-06
Roosevelt Praises
u. !. Soldiers in Iran
lin Two Addresses
BY the Associated Press.

layed). - President Roosevelt
made two informal speeches to-
day to United States soldiers
based at Camp Amirabad here,
telling them Of his meetings
with Premier Stain and Prime
Minister Churchill, praising
their work here and wishing
them an early return home.
He said he and Mr.. Stain and Mr..
Churchill had made progress in
their effort Ito plan for a world for
us and our children when war would
cease to be a necessity but, of
course, the first thing is to win the
war and all of you who are
here and farther south in Iran can
always remember you have taken a
very necessary and very useful part
in winning the war"
Speaking first to a large body of
men after an inspection, the Presi-
dent said:
/ Officers and men:
Il seem at this moment to be
Thoroughly equipped with the
weapons of war two microphones). i.
IF you had said to me or I had
said to you three years ago that we
would meet in Iran today, we would
have probably said that we were
completely crazy.
Farley Had Two Purposes.
II got here four days ago to meet
with the Marshal of Soviet Russia
and the Prime Minister of England
to try to do two things.
The first was to lay military
plans for cooperation between the
three nations looking toward the
winning Of the war just as fast
as we possibly can, and 1 think we
have made progress toward that
end. The other purpose was to talk
over world conditions after the war,
to try to plan for a world for us and
for our children when war would
cease to be a necessity.
We have made great progress
In that, also. but of course the first
thing is to win the war, and I want
to tell you that you, all of you, in
dividually and collectively, are part
Of that purpose.
AL OF you who are here today
and all Of you who are farther
south In Iran can always remember
that you have taken very neces-
sary and a very useful part in win
ming the war.
When woke up this morning in
this camp and looked out I said to
myself: I am back in Arizona or
New Mexico And then I suddenly
realized how far away from home
we are.
America Is proud Of you and
proud OF what you are doing in this
distant place. l wish that great
numbers OF our people could see this
work OF getting necessary equip
ment and supplies through to our
Ally who has had very heavy losses,
but who is licking the Nazi hordes
And so I am on my way home and
wish / could take all Of you with
me.
The people back home know
what you are doing and how well
you are doing 1t. They, too are
proud Of you.
All l can say is. may you get back
nome to our good America Just as
soon as you can.
"Good-by and good luck"
Address at Camp Hospital.
In speech to ambulatory cases
at a camp hospital he said:
This place is a good deal like
home. I landed about 10 days ago
over in Morocco and this is the
nearest thing to the United States
that I have seen yet.
I wish the people back home
could all see what we are doing here
and how we'll we are doing it.
Il want you boys, all of YOU, to
remember that back at home we are
thinking of you. I know you wish
to get out Of the hospital as soon as
possible and come back to the United
States just as fast as We can lick
the Nazls.
Il have had conferences with Mar
shall Stain and Mr.. Churchill dur
ing the past four days, very success
full to laying plans as far as we can
to make it unnecessary for us again