Foreign News: Brave Words

So much magic is packed into the syllables of Franklin Delano Roosevelt that foreign comment on the President's messages to Congress (see p. 14) mainly took the form of efforts to make local use of what he said rather than to appraise its worth:

Britain. Because that canny Scot, James Ramsay MacDonald will rush into no experiments, to the infinite distress of Britain's Hearstian press peers, they used the President's speech as a whip to make the Prime Minister giddap.

"What a lesson President Roosevelt, the hero of a nation, teaches the rulers of...

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