Evening star., 1944-10-22
Text Of President Rooseves Foreign Policy Address
Strikes Out Strongly Republican Iootionit Leaders
And Warns Nation After
4Y the Associated press

NEW YORK, Oct. 2l.-Follow-
ing is the text of an address by
President Roosevelt at a Foreign
Policy Association dinner here
tonight:
Tonight I am speaking as a
guest of the Foreign Policy As
sociation-a distinguished or
ganization composed of Ameri-
cans Of . all shades Of political
opinion.
I am going to talk about our
American foreign policy.
I am talking without rancor
or snap judgment.
1 am speaking without losing
my temper or losing my head.
When the First World War was
ended, I believed believe now
that enduring peace in the
world has not a chance unless
this Nation is willing to CO.
operate in winning it and main
tanning it. I thought then-I
know now-that we have to back
our words with deeds.
No Assurance of Another Chance.
A quarter of century ago we
helped to save our freedom but
we failed to organize the kind of
world in which future genera
tions could live in freedom. OPP
portunity knocks again. There
is no guarantee that it will knock
a third time.
Today, Hitler and the Nazis
continue the f1ght-desperately,
inch by inch, and may continue
to do so all the way to Berlin.
And we have another impor-
tant engagement in Tokyo. No
matter how long or hard the
road we must travel, our forces
will fight their way there under
the leadership Of Macarthur and
Nimitz.
All of our thinking about for
eign policy in this war must be
conditioned by the fact that mil
lions of our American boys are
today fighting, many thousands
of miles from home, for the de-
fense OF our country and the per-
petuation of our American ideals.
And there are still many hard
and bitter battles to be fought.
Defense Policy Unchanged.
The leaders of this Nation have
always held that concern for our
national security does not end at
our borders. President Monroe
and every American President
following him were prepared to
use force, if necessary, to assure
the independence of other Amer
ican nations threatened by ag-
greSsors from across the seas.
The principle has not changed,
though the world has. Wars are
no longer fought from horseback,
or from the decks of sailing ships.
1t was with recognition of that
fact that in 1888 we took, as the
basis for our foreign relations,
the good-neighbor policy - the
principle of the neighbor who,
resolutely respecting himself,
equally respects the rights of
others.
We and the other American re-
publics have made the good
neighbor policy real in this hemi-
sphere. 1t is my conviction that
this policy can be, and should be,
made universal.
At r-American conferences,
beginning at Montevideo in 1888
and continuing down to date, we
have made it clear to this hemi-
sphere that we practice what we
preach.
Same Philosophy Toward
Philippines.
Our action in 1884 with respect
to Philippine independence was
another step in making good the
same philosophy which animated
the good-neighbor policy.
AS I said two years ago: Il like
to think that the history of the
Philippine Islands in the last A
years provides in a very real
sense pattern for the future of
other small nations and peoples
of the world. 1t is a pattern of
what men of good will look for
ward to in the future"
cite another early action in
the field of foreign policy of
which I am proud. That was the
recognition in 1888 of Soviet
Russia.
For Is years before then the
American people and the Russian
people had no practical means of
communicating with each other.
We re-established those means.
And today we are fighting with
the Russians against common foes
and we know that the Russian
contribution to victory has been
and will continue to be gigantic.
Hits Critics of Red Recognition.
However, certain politicians,
now very prominent in the Re-
publican party, have condemned
our recognition.
I am impelled to wonder how
Russia would have survived
against German attack if these
same people had had their way.
After the last war-in the po-
litical campaign of 1920 - the
isolationist old guard professed
to be enthusiastic about inter-
national cooperation.
While campaigning for votes in
1920, Senator Harding said that
he favored with all his heart an
association of nations 80 organ
lied and so participated in as to
make the actual attainment of
peace a reasonable possibility"
However, after President Hard
ing's election the association of
nations was never heard of again.
One of the leading isolation
lists who killed international CO.
operation in 1920 was Senator
Hiram johnson. In the event
of Republican victory in the Sem
ate this year-1944-that same
Senator johnson would be chair
man of the Senate Foreign Re-
lations Committee. I know the
American voters will bear that
in mind.
Hand of COP IsOlationism.
During the years which fol-