| ROOSEVELT ADDRESSES CONGRESS President Roosevelt makes a rousing speech about sending materials to aid the democracies. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 7519 |
| Catalog #: | 193236 | |
| Clip Number: | 193236-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | UN 170 C | |
| Timecode: | 01:20:50 - 01:23:14 | |
| Location: | Washington DC, United States of America (USA). | |
| Year Shot: | 1941 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | GOVERNMENT: United States, Congress LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, Washington D.C. PERSONALITIES: Roosevelt, Franklin D. (FDR) | |
| Description: | ROOSEVELT ADDRESSES CONGRESS President Roosevelt (FDR) makes a rousing speech about sending materials to aid the democracies. Excerpts from Annual Message to Congress on the State of the Union January 6, 1941 Washington DC, United States of America (USA). Various shots, American President Franklin D Roosevelt addressing Congress. "I address you, the new Members Congress, at a moment unprecedented in the history of the Union. I use the word 'unprecedented,' because at no previous time has American security been as seriously threatened from without as it is today. ... Let us say to the democracies: 'We Americans are vitally concerned in your defense of freedom. ... We shall send you, in ever-increasing numbers, ships, planes, tanks, guns. This is our purpose and our pledge.' ... Such aid is not an act of war, even if a dictator should unilaterally proclaim it so to be. When the dictators, if the dictators, are ready to make war upon us, they will not wait for an act of war on our part. They did not wait for Norway or Belgium or the Netherlands to commit an act of war. ... Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept there can be no end save victory." | |
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