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1939 USA / POLITICS: President Roosevelt urges Congress to arm for defence
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4:05Now PlayingDate: 12th January 1939
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A.
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
SLATE INFORMATION: Roosevelt Urges U.S To Arm for Defence
USA: Washington, D.C:
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Geneal view Congress / members applauding / US President Franklin D.Roosevelt speaking SOT
Sound Effects. Roosevelt says that sources opposed to democracy have attacked freedom of religion, and when religion and democracy have vanished it is given way to ambition & brute force. Dictatorship, he continues, means loss of freedom of speech, capital confiscated, being afraid to walk down the street with the wrong neighbour & having our children brought up as pawns moulded for a machine, but if to avoid these things taxes are required on income and death duties Roosevelt says he will willingly pay them for the price of his own and his children breathing free air in a free country.
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Congress applauding / Speaker Bankhead talking to Assembly / newspaper men / General view House of Representatives taking Oath, standing with raised hands / Exterior Capitol buildiing / cars arriving at Capitol / Roosevelt posing on steps / General view House applauding / Spectators on balcony / House in session / Roosevelt making speech & applause / senators listening / Farley listening / Senators / House of Representatives, Roosevelt talking and takes drink / House seen from above
Sound Effects. Bankhead says that the first session of the 76th Congress will now be in order.
Bankhead administers the Oath of Office.
Personalities - Politicians; United States of America; Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)
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