Roosevelt asks aid for war fund
Washington (UP) –
President Roosevelt last night called for greater-than-ever contributions to the national and community war fund campaigns “to show that there is no letdown in the spirit and unity of this country.”
He said in a broadcast that the voluntary nature of the community war fund campaign was demonstrative of “democracy at its best.”
He said this year “more than ever” the needs of both war fund drives were important not only because of their aid to needy people at home but to help the “long suffering peoples of the United Nations” and services helping American fighting men.
He said:
It is through this gift that we send a token of our personal friendship to the tragic victims of brute slavery and to those who have so long borne the burden of fighting this war.