National Affairs: Speech

Between telling Congress how he proposed to end the Depression and telling the country what he had told Congress, Franklin Roosevelt last week sandwiched in a warning to European dictators against meddling with South America. Said he in a Pan-American Day broadcast to South America, at which his immediate audience consisted of the 20 Pan-American diplomatic missions in Washington:

"The 300,000,000 citizens in the American republics are not different from other human beings.

"We have the same problems, the same differences, even the same material for controversy which exists elsewhere. Yet, we have undertaken contractual obligations to solve these normal human differences by maintaining peace; and that peace we are firmly resolved to maintain.

"It shall not be endangered by controversies within our family; and we will not permit it to be endangered from aggression coming from outside of our hemisphere."