Show president asks fo for r military preparedness in opening congress warns dictators that americas will resist brute force and ambition in a dramatic speech on the state of the nation before a joint session of congress and b broadcast road cast to the tha entire world worl d president roosevelt wednesday warned the dictator nations that americans will resist their strident ambitions and brute force and made a plea for military preparedness he asserted that there are methods short of war of bringing home to aggressor governments the aggregate sentiments of our oan own people referring no doubt to embargoes and the like to cripple dictator nations and put them in their places mr air roosevelt made a plea for national unity discussing the necessity for elimination of class cass prejudices and internal dissensions through the abolition of social abuses so that a nation united in spirit might combat al threats of military and economic aggression from abroad mr air roosevelt announced that the period e of new deal social and economic innovations had reached at last a pause if not an end and asserted that the time had come for congress to improve the new i machinery which we havel have permanently installed continued spending president roosevelt outlined the accomplishments mavie made by his administration in the past six years of the building up of the nations reserves by soil and water control road construction and forest conservation etc he said that it would be up to congress to cut down expenditures if they are to be cut down and warned that b balancing al the budget would invite disaster as it did when expenditures were cut two years ago and the business recession developed national income he said that by spending the national income could be raised from sixty billion dollars collars to eighty billion and that the object of government spending is to put capital private as well as public to work if congress takes the point of view that the budget must be balanced then one third of government activities must be curtailed and congress must decide which of these must be abolished |