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BROKE AT BEGINNING OF WAR EVEN IF WAR WERE TO END RIGHT NOW EVERY
ONE OF THESE THREE COUNTRIES IS CONFRONTED WITH HUGE SOCIAL
PROBLEMS THAT ARISE OUT OF BAD ECONOMIC CONDITIONS EVERY ONE OF
THESE COUNTRIES WILL CONFRONT SOME KING OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC
DIFFICULTIES THAT CONFRONTED YOU WHEN YOU TOOK OFFICE AS PRESIDENT
FOR YOUR FIRST TERM THE PEOPLE OF EUROPE ARE PATHETICALLY EAGER TO
SEE YOU MR PRESIDENT TAKE SOME KIND OF A HAND IN THE WHOLE SITUATION
FOR TWO REASONS FIRST THEY HAVE A WARM CONFIDENCE IN YOU BECAUSE
OF YOUR HUMANE QUALITIES AND COMPASSION FURTHER YOU HAVE SHOWN
CONSTANTLY IN YOUR SPEECHES AND PUBLIC ATTITUDES THAT HOWEVER A
SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT IS CONSTRICTED OR OPERATED IN ANY COUNTRY IT
SHOULD HAVE AS ITS INSPIRATION THE FREEING OF MEN FROM THE HAUNTING
FEARS OF OPPRESSION AND STARVATION X THE SECOND POINT IS A VERY
PRACTICAL POINT THE POLITICAL LEADERS IN THE BELLIGERENT COUNTRIES
ARE VERY CONSCIOUS OF THE POLITICAL ECONOMIC AND MILITARY POWER OF
UNITED STATES THEREFORE ARE EXTREMELY EAGER TO AVOID OFFENDING
YOU RO AMERICAN PUBLIC OPINION IN ANY WAY THEY WILL RESPECT