The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-04-13

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amber, 1890. traded SO old de-
troycrs to Britain for naval and
ir base sites in the Western Al
antic. The next month, selective
scTvlee became law. A new army
Nas drafted.
AavalNand air programs were
accelerated, industry put on a
wartime basis, and America be-
came the arsenal of democracy.
Japan's TreacherY
IL March, l94l, the dollar sign
was wiped from munitions for the
Allies in a multi-billion lend
Csee program. And, on May 81,
1874, few months after his third
term began, the Chief Executive
iocl,red an unlimited national
nc rgency."
The United States had watched
nlssily the victorious sweep of
Japanese arms through the South
g,st Pacific and had attempted
. cleck it by persuasion.
Eut suddenly Japan, borrowing
technique of surprise I'D
rc9chery from her Axis part
I, $, struck Pearl Harbor with
Ines and submarines on that
aleiul Sunday, December z, l94l
--t the very moment when her
h,issarics IN Washington deceit
lly talked peace with Secretary
.. State CoTdell Hull. The attack
eft many United States warships
INK or seriously damaged and
aused more than 5000 casualties.
Il was a day, Mr., Roosevelt de
dared, which will live in in
fanny"
-Four Fresdoms" Proclaimed
The statement was one of the
most militant and emotion arods-
lg he had ever made. Americas
war policies were developing
swiftly in the Presidents mind.
In that same address he said: Il
call for effort, courage, sacrifice
and devotion Granting the love
of freedom, all these are posi-
Die"
IN the midst of all his prepare
tons for emergency, the Presi-
dent had proclaimed to Congress
bis famed -four freedomS'-free-
dom of speech and religion, free
iom from want and fear-aS fun
damental to perpetual harmony
among nations.
In part, those concepts formed
he basis for that doctrine of peace
aims, the Atlantic Charter"
drafted by the President and
Prime Minister Churchill in their
first meeting. -
In August, 194l, Mr.. Roosevelt
set off on a fishing cruise and
Mr.. Churchill disappeared from
London. They met aboard war;
ships anchored off the Newfound7
land coast. One meeting was held
board the British battleship
Prince of Wales, later sunk by
japanese bomberS in the South
west Pacific. Other meetings were
aboard the AQerican cruiser Au-
gusta. From their deliberations
came the charter, later subscribed
10 by all the uHited. Nations,
Two Attempts On Life
Occasionally, too, he saw NOV
les at the White House, or worked
with valuable stamp collection.
Even before he lost the use of
his legs. swimming, fishing and
sailing had been faVorite past
times, and they continued to be
throughout the years.
Mr.. Roosevelt, the son of James
and Sara Delano Roosevelt, was
IN the national eye long before
entering the White House. He
had been a New York state SEN
ator, Assistant Secretary of the
Navy in World War l days; I'M
successful candidate for Vice
President when James M. Cox
was defeated for the Presidency
and governor of New York for
two terms.
II was during Mr. RooseveltS
first term as governor that the
first of two attempts was made on
his life. In April, 1929, a bomb
addreshed to him. was found IN
the Albany postoffice. A porter
accidentally kicked the package