Evening star., 1944-11-05
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60STON, Moo. sls-Folloying
U the tert OF President Roose-
Ueits speech here tonight.
This Is not my first visit to Boston
a shall not review all my previou.
visits. I should have to go on talk.
ing for several days to do that
and radio time costs lot Of money
But ! want to recall one visit
back In October, 1928, when came
here to urge you to vote for great
American named al Smith.
: And you did vote for that eter-
nally Happy Warrior"
The Commonwealth of Massa-
schusetts-and your good neighbor
Rhode Island-went Democratic in
1928-four years before the rest oi
the Nation did.
! This year-and I am making nc
'predictions-this year we would like
to welcome into the fold Maine and
Vermont.
And while I am speaking of that
campaign Of 1928, let me remind
you that, having nominated Al
Smith for the second time for the
presidency, I was then running at
his request for, the governorship OF
New York. And pepole we're then
even then-saying that my health
would not permit me to discharge
the duties of public ONCE.
II Managed to Survive"
think that it is by now pretty
well established fact that managed
to survive my four years as Cover
nor of New York.
In this connection, in 1928 Al
Smith remarked publicly that the
Governor of New York does not have
to be an acrobat. And not many
months before his untimely death,
he remarked to me in my office in
Washington:
1T is perfectly evident you do not
have to be an acrobat to be Presi-
dent, either"
When I talked here In Boston in
1928 I talked about racial and re-
ligious intolerance which was then
as it unfortunately still is-"a mem
ace to the liberties of America"
And all the bigots were cunning
for Al Smith.
= Religious intolerance, social In
tolerance and political intolerance
have no place In our American life.
Cabots, Lowells, and Murrhys Mix.
Here in New England you have
been fighting bigotry and intoler-
ance for centuries. You know that
all OF our people - except pure
blooded IndiansIare immigrants or
descendants of immigrants, includ-
ing even those who came here on
the Mayhower.
Today, in this war, our fine boys
are fighting magnificently all oyer
the world, and among those boys
are the Murphys and the Kellys,
the Smiths and the Joneses, the
Cohens, the CaruSos, the Kowalskis,
the Schultzes, the Olsens, the Swo-
bodas, and-right in with all the
rest of them-the Cabots and the
Lowelk.
All of these and others like them
are the lifeblood of America. They
are the hope of the world.
1t is our duty to them to make
sure that, big as this country Is,
there is no room in it for racial or
religious intolerance-and that
there is no room for snobbery.
Our young men and young women
are fighting not only for their
existence, and their homes and
their families. They also are fight
ing for q country and aworld where
men and women of all races, colors
and creeds can live, work, speak
and worshir-in peace. freedom and
security @
If we can shorten the war by one
month-even by one minute-we
shall have saved the lives of some
OF our young men and women. We
must not let our comforts or con-
veniences, our politics or our pref
udices. stand in the way of our de-
termination to drive-to drive re-
lentlessly and unflinchingly-over
the hard road to final victory.
I'VE Must Stay on job"
You and I-all of us who are
war workers-must stay on the Job.
Although victory over the Nazis
and the Japanese is certain and in
evitable-and I for one have never
had one moments doubt of our ulti-
mate victory-the war is still far
from over. There is tough, hard
and bloody fighting ahead Of us.
We got into this war because we
were attacked by the Japanese-and
because they and their Axis part
ners, Hitler,s Germany and Mus
solihi's Italy, declared war on us.
I am sure that any real American
would have chosen, as this Govern
ment did, to fight when our own
soil was made the object of a sneak
attack. As for myself, under the
same circumstances, I>swould choose
to do the same thing-again and
again and again.
When our enemies flung the gage
OF battle at us, we elected to fight
them in the American way, which
meant that we went out after them
and we started punching-and we
are still punching.
One Of the tyrants, Mussolini, has
been knocked out. The others are
getting groggier and groggier every
day.