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BHITI3ti KMBA3SX,
VA5!Iiri0T0If D.C.,
February- Slat, 1939
Uy Lord,
I have the honour to inform Your Lordship
that considerable prominence was given in the press to
certain passages in the messages which the President
sent by wireless on February 18th in connexion with the
inauguration of the Golden Sato Exhibition at San
Francisco and the Do Soto Pan*Amer i c an imposition at
Tampa, Florida.   In these passages ttr« Roosevelt
extolled the virtues of democracy and emphasised the
determination of the peoples of the Western Hemisphere
to defend "the self "governing way of life"«   Though the
President made no speolfio reference to European affairs
nor to the totalitarian countries his remarks seem
generally to have been interpreted as intended as "a
blunt warning to the dictators to stay out of the
2. The texts of the relevant passages in the two
messages ran as follows.
"Many times. In the elaboration of what I call the
good neighbor policy, I have stressed the point that the
maintenance of peace in the Western hemisphere must be
the first concern of all Americans - North Americans,
South Americans and Central Americans - for nothing Is
mors true than that wo hero in the Vow World carry the
hopes of millions of human beings In other less
fortunate lands*
"By/
The Right Honourable
The Viscount Halifax, K.O.,
etc., etc., etc.

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"By setting an example of international solidarity,
cooperation, Mutual trust and mutual helpfulness, we may
keep faith alive in the heart of anxious end troubled
humanity, and at the same time* lift democracy high
above the ugly trueulence of autocracy,
"And so, when I wish the Golden Gate International
i&poflitien all possible success, it is as an instrument
of international goodwill as well as an expression of
the material and cultural progress of our own West and
of our Fac&fic Ocean neighbors/'
and
"It is the certain and unfailing safeguard of our
inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.   Although the peoples of the Hew World are
of many origins', they are united in a common aspiration
to defend and maintain the self-governing way of life*
That way of life is instinctive in all the peoples of
the Western Heraisphere*
"To show our faith in democracy,, we have made the
policy of the good neighbour the cornerstone of our
foreign relations.   Mo other polioy would be consistent
with our ideas and our ideals*   In the fulfillment of
this polioy we purpose to heed the ancient Scriptural
admonition not to move our neighbor's landmarks, not to
encroach on his metes and bounds*
"We desire by every legitimate means to promote
freedom in trade and travel and in exchange of cultural
ideas among nations*   We seek no territorial expansion*
we are not covetous of our neighbor's goodst   we shall
cooperate in every proposal honestly put forward to
limit armaments;   we abhor the appeal to physical force
except/
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except to repulae aggression;   but wo say to all tho
world that in tho Weo'terri Heihiaptiei'e - in the three
Americas • tho institutions of denocraoy - government
with tho consent of the governed • must and shall bo
maintained."
X have the honour to be,
with tho highest respect,
£fy Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient,
humble servant,
(33D$ R* 0. LIHD3AY