Summary

Pres. Franklin Roosevelt predicts way of life in US if Adolf Hitler and the Nazis were to achieve world domination

Source Sherman Grinberg
Newsreel Paramount
Negative # C936B
Clip SR005468_03_03.mov
Date 5/27/1941
Title Pres. Franklin Roosevelt predicts way of life in US if Adolf Hitler and the Nazis were to achieve world domination
Description CU Pres. Franklin Roosevelt delivers radio address from the East Room of the White House, with MBS, CBS, NBC radio microphones in front of him; SOT: "The American laborer would have to compete with slave labor in the rest of the world. Minimum wages, maximum hours? Nonsense! Wages and hours fixed by Hitler. The dignity and power and standard of living of the American worker and farmer would be gone. Trade unions would become historical relics, and collective bargaining a joke / wider shot, SOT Roosevelt: "Yes, even our right of worship would be threatened. The Nazi world does not recognize any God except Hitler; for the Nazis are as ruthless as the Communists in the denial of God. What place has religion which preaches the dignity of the human being, the majesty of the human soul, in a world where moral standards are measured by treachery and bribery and fifth columnists? Will our children, too, wander off, goose-stepping in search of new gods? We do not accept, we will not permit, this Nazi 'shape of things to come.' It will never be forced upon us if we act in this present crisis with the wisdom, the courage which have distinguished our country in all the crises of the past"
Personality Franklin D Roosevelt
Country United States
City Washington DC

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