President Roosevelt Makes History (1941)

Title reads: “President Roosevelt makes history“. Washington DC, United States of America (USA). Various shots of men and women in evening dress entering large room in White House. They are representatives of all the American Republics. As they enter they shake hands with President Franklin D Roosevelt and Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt. C/U of Roosevelt speaking: “The war is approaching the brink of the Western Hemisphere itself. It is coming very close to home. No spurious argument no appeal to sentiment, no false pledges like those given by Hitler at Munich can deceive the American people into believing that he and his axis partners (cut) would not relentlessly on this hemisphere of ours. Our national policy today therefore is this, first we shall actively resist wherever necessary and with all our resources every attempt by Hitler to extend his Nazi domination to the western hemisphere (cut) We shall actively resist his every attempt to gain control of the seas. We will not hesitate to use our armed forc