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ee ee ee ee Ae : ADD ROOSEVELT / MY MRe ROCSEVELT SYA BITICIZED COL. CHARLIE! -AND OTY! WHO BELIEVE THAT THE AXIS WILL WIN THE WAR AND COMPARED PERSONS #HO HOLD THAT VIEWPOINT TO THE COPPERYEADS OF CIVIL WAR DAYS. THESE VIEWS, TYE PRESIDENT. SAID, ARE HELD EY CNLY A SMALL MINORITY - CF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. HE CHALLENGED THE PATRIOTISM OF THIS VIEWPCINT AND ADDED THAT HE WAS SORRY THAT SC MANY WITH THIS TYPE OF MENTALITY ARE IN POSITIONS OF PROMINENCE TO SPEAK AND WRITES. FOR HIMSELF AND CTHERS WYO CHARE HIS VIEWPOINT, THE PRESIDENT SAID, THEY ARE FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS AND ARE WILLING TO FIGHT FO! ITe HE DECLAPED HE DID NOT WANT TO LIE DCYVN AND ACCEPT TKE CONQUER! HE ASSERTED THAT DURING CIVIL WAR THERE WERE PERSONS WHO BELIEVED . THE NORTH CCULD MOT WIN. “HE DESCRIEED AC TYPICAL OF THIS GROUP TYE ONE HEADED BY CLEMENT Le é < VALLANDIGHA!, & OHIO CONGRESSMAN, WHOSE FOLLOWERS WERE REFERRED TO AS COPPERHEADS.» HE ADDED T'AT GEORGE WASHINGTON WAS PESTEGED EY PERSONS WHO WANTED PEACE AFTER VALLEY FORGE. MRe ROOSEVELT ALSO CRKITICIZED THE CONTENTICN THAT THERE ALWAYS RAVE EEEN CON AVERCRS AND THE ONES TODAY SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY. W/25=cK 1153A ADD ROCSEVELT IN ADDITION, MR. ROOSEVELT REMINDED, THE UseSe NOW HAS AN INTEREST BASES ACQUIRED FROM ERITAIN WITHIN THE YEAR. ASKED WHETHER THE EXPANSION OF THE PATROL WOULD NOT PROVIDE WHAT ONE REPORTER DESCRIEED AS A “NICE, SAFE SEA ROAD® TO GREENLAND, THE PRESIDENT ADDED THAT HE HOPED THAT THE ROUTE TO CREENLAND WouLD BF FEe THEN HE ADDED THAT HE HOPED THERE WOULD BE NO MORE ACTS OF AGGRESS ICN IN GREENLAND. IT WAS AT THIS POINT THAT HE SAID HE THOUGHT THE AXIS ALREADY MAY BE IN GREENLAND. THE PRESIDENT WOULD NOT SAY WHAT INSTRUCTIONS HAVE BEEN AS To ‘WHAT THE NEUTRALITY PATROL IS TO DO IF IT SEES A BRITISH CONVOY ATTACKED. THE DISCUSSION ON THE NEUTRALITY PATROL EXTENSION WAS INDUCED BY REQUESTS FOR COMMENT FROM THE PRESIDENT ON THE SPEECHES MADE LAST NIGHT BY SECRETARY HULL AND SECRETARY KNOX. THE PRESIDENT SAID HE THOUGHT THESE CABINET OFFICERS SPOKE FOR ‘THEMSELVES PRETTY CLEARLY AND FOR THE GREAT MAJORITY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. HE ADDED, IN REPLY TO A QUESTION, THAT THEY SPOKE FOR HIM A WELL. WHEN IT WAS SUGGESTED THAT THE SPEECHES INDICATED THAT THE NAVY MIGHT BE USED TO HELP GET WAR AID TO BRITAIN SAFEL THE Ait ENT, BEGAN HIS DISCUSSION OF THE NEUTRALITY PATROL. ~ Huda