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ADD RCOLEVELT a mira ali oe ee miele a eee IN] MRe ROCSEVELT SYA LITICIZED COL» CHARLES AND OTH! eVE THAT THE AXIS WILL WIN THE WAR AND COMPARED PERSONS WHO HCLD THAT VIEWPOINT TO THE COPPERHEADS OF CIVIL WAR DAYSe THESE VIEWS, THE PRESIDENT. SAID, ARE HELD EY CNLY A SMALL MINORITY - CF THE AMERICAN PECPLEs HE CHALLENGED THE PATRIOTISM OF THIS VIEWPOINT AND ADDED THAT HE WAS SORRY THAT SC MANY WITH THIS TYPE OF MENTALITY ARE IN POSITIGNS OF PROMINENCE TO SPEAK AND WRITEs FOR HIMSELF AND CTHERS WYO SHARE HIS VIEWPOINT, THE PRESIDENT SAID, THEY ARE FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS AND ARE WILLING TO FIGHT FO! 1Te HE DECLARED HE DID NCT WANT TO LIE DOWN AND ACCEPT THE CONQUERI( HE ASSERTED THAT DURING CIVIL WAR THERE WERE PERSONS WHO BELIEVED THE NORTH CCULD NOT WIN. “HE DESCRIEED AS TYPICAL OF THIS GROUP TYE ONE HEADED BY CLEMENT Le VALLANDIGHAN, A OHIO CONGRESSMAN, WHOSE FOLLOWERS WERE REFERRED TO AS COPPERUEADS. HE ADDED T'NAT CEORSE WASHINGTON WAS BESTEGED EY PERSONS WHO WANTED PEACE AFTER VALLEY FORGE. MRe ROOSEVELT ALSO CRKITICIZED THE CONTENTICN THAT THERE ALWAYS HAVE EEEN CONQUERORS AND THE CNES TODAY SHGULD NOT BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY. K/25 me LISSA Se a og ADD ROCSEVELT IN ADDITION, MR. RCOSEVELT REMINDED, THE UeS. NOW HAS AN INTEREST PASES ACQUIRED FROM ERITAIN WITHIN THE YEAR» ASKED WHETHER TRE EXPANSION OF THE PATROL WOULD NOT PROVIDE WHAT ONE REPORTER DESCRIBED AS A "NICE, SAFE SEA ROAD® TO GREENLAND, THE PRESIDENT ADDED THAT HE HOPED THAT THE ROUTE TO GREENLAND WOULD BE SAFE» THEN HE ADDED THAT HE HOPED THERE WOULD BE NO MORE ACTS OF ACGRESS 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 PEOPLEs 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 PY BEGAN HIS DISCUSSION OF THE NEUTRALITY PATROL. -Med