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The New York Herald Tribune:
If reporting is correct, Mrs. Roosevelt uttered the following words before the Rotary Club of New York on January 8, referring to our boys fighting in the Southwest Pacific:
They have operated on the principle. "What you want you can take if you are organized" ... They have learned that getting what you want is the only thing that counts.
This is all perfectly correct in war, but Mrs. Roosevelt wanted her audience to understand that these same boys were coming home went on operating on that principle in their homeland when peace came. Is this a forerunner of a military dictatorship under the leadership of the Roosevelt clan, or is it just loose talk? In any case, it is most disturbing.
My two sons are in this war, one of them now missing in the Southwest Pacific for over a year. These men are offering their lives for liberty not dictatorship by brute force, and that is what I believe our other boys are doing.
Otto G. Lindberg
New York, January 8, 1944
To The New York Herald Tribune:
On January 4, 1944 about ten months before the 1944 Presidential election, Mrs. Roosevelt, speaking at a dinner of the Rotary Club, said, concerning the soldiers:
"What you want you can take if you are organized."
This is the language of revolution rabidly red "Want?" "Take?" "Organized?" This is the language that would, if it could, induce the soldiers to ease up a bit on Hitler, and make some sort of peace, and hurry on back home why they are "organized" and "take" what they "can."
W.W. Davies
New Canaan, CN, January 8, 1944
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