Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
January 21, 1941.
ROOSEVELT SOUNDS A CLARION CALL TO DEFEND DEMOCRACY
Special to the "Telegraph" -
WASHINGTON, JAN. 20 (UP).—PRESIDENT FRANKLIN 'D. ROOSEVELT, IN THE COURSE OF HIS INAUGURAL ADDRESS TO-DAY, WHEN HE BECame the first MAN TO ASSUME THE U.S. PRESIDENCY FOR A THIRD TERM, URGED ALL AMERICANS TO PERPE- TUATE DEMOCRACY "IN THE FACE OF GREAT PERILS NEVER BEFORE ENCOUNTERED.”
He challenged the philosophy of men who believe that Democracy is
doomed and who believe that "tyranny and slavery will become a surging A
wave of the future.”
"Democracy is not dying,” declared President Roosevelt. "We know it, because we have seen it revive—and grow, We know it cannot die because it is built on unhampered initiative of individual men and women
Million People
joined together in a common enterprise-undertaken and carried through Observe
by free expression of a free-majority.”
“OUR STRONG purpose”.
"The preservation of the spirit and faith of nations does and will furnish | the highest justifiention for every sacrifice we may make in the cause of national defence. In the face of perils never before encountered
the perpetunte
integrity of de- wemocracy. For this we must muster|
the spirit of Amerles, the faith of America,
Ceremony
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGNAPH" WASHINGTON, Jan.
20
In concluding his speech, President Roosevelt de- clared: "In the face of great perils never before encountered, our strong purpose is to protect and per-strong purpose is to point ou Inauguration Described petuate the integrity of Democracy. For this must muster the spirit of American faith in America. We do not retreat. We are not content to stand still. As Americans we go forward in the service of our country and by the will of God.”
"We do not retreat; we are not
the
divine
CHINESE HELPS SAVE
THE
LINER
HE 26,000-ion Empress of Japan steamed triumphant- ly to her anchorage in a British port recently with two new wor heroes on board.
One was Captain Thomas, the liner's commander from Vancou ver whose name ix known wherever men sail the seas,
The other hero was a Chinese quartermaster, Ho A-Kin, whose name, by contrast, is unknown outside the ship's company.
Forward By Will of God |(UP).--President Roosevelt, be- fore going to the Capitol for his content to stand still. Aa Americans inauguration, went we go forward in the service of our historic St. John's Episcopal country by the will of God, to the church to ask for President Roosevelt did not needs of its neighbours-all other end (Cheers).
guidance, and he prayed for make any specific reference to nations that live within the narrowing Mighty cheers swelled up from the
circle of the world; and a nation, ilice multitude in the Plaze beneath the peace in the same pew where the conversion of American in- dustry into an arsenal for Demo-thing more permanent, sormething President reached
person, has something deeper, sume-Capitol's sun-flecked dome na the President John Madison prayed.
the concluding in 1810. cracy as in his declarations of larger than the sum of all its parts." passage of his inaugural speech. Meanwhile, thousands of December 10 and January 7ters most to its future, which calls fore re-entering his car to return to People were gathered around the
"It is that something which mat-After the speech, the President, be- instead the keynote address was the defence of the present. It is a thing for which we white-pillared pavilion which had address.
of his forth the most sacred guarding of its the White House, waited in the Capitol to hear the inaugural The streets were Democratic principle.
find it dificult, even impossible, to been specially erected in front of the crowded in the inaugural area hit upon in a single simple word and Capitol for to-day's ceremonies and and it was estimated that 1,000,- Tash of The People yet we all understand what it is-the stood with the multitude as the band WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (Reuter). spirit and the faith of America.
played the national anthem.
000 persons had come to observe "On each Inauguration Day, the
Observers noted that President the ceremony. The crowds out- American people have renewed their
"It is the product of centuries. De serious before he took the oath. He presidential party. There was Roosevelt looked more than usually side the church applauded the sense of dedication to the United States," declared President Rooseveltocratic aspiration is not a mere re-
cent happening in human history.
was also unusually strong in em- in his
address Inaugural
to-day.
Is human history. He said: "In this day the task of unclent life of early peoples, it and appeared to be in the best of Following the President's car were It permeated the phasis throughout his address, but bright sunshine and the air was
ofterwards he greeled friends gaily cold." the people is to Bave that nation and Its insiitutior from disruption from blazed anew in the Middle
ges, it
spirits. without. To us, there has come a was written in the Mogna Carta.
sirens 50 motorcycle police with Several members of Mr Roosevelt's roaring. They arrived at the rear of time in the midst of swift happen-been irresistible. Those
"In the Americas. Its impact has family, Including his mother, wit- the church where a special ramp had ings to pause for a moment
to take
who firstnessed the historic inauguration from been built to accommodate the party. stock-to recall what our place in to carry out the longings of the pavilion, over which the Pre- The President's sons, their wives, history has been, and to re-discover and the stock that sprang waved with the Stars and Stripes.
spirit and the millions who, sident's own blue and gold lag children, his wife and mother pre-and the obscure Chinese suitor, were what we are and what we may be. If we do not, we risk a real perii from them, all have moved forward of fraction,
their
Human History
It
constantly and consistently towards The lives of nations are deteran ideal which in itself has gained in mined not by the count of years but stature and charity with each genera- by lifetime of human spirit. The
Tation. life
a measure fustified by the resources and capacity of the innd, but it is not enough to achieve these purposes alone, for there is also the spirit.
e of man is three score years and "We know that we still have far ten, a little more, a little less. The to go und that we must more greatly life of a nation is the fullness of the build security and opportunity, for measure of its will to live. There the knowledge of every citizen is in are men who doubt this. There are men who believe that democracy, as form of government and a frame OLI life is limited or measured by u kind of mystical and artificial fate; that for Rome unexplained tyranny and slavery have become the surging wave of the future, and that freedom is an ebbing tide.
a
reason
If The Spirit Died
Export Of Rice To Japan
Indo-China Agreement. Is Reached
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
ceded him into the church where many high political celebrities and Cabinet members had assembled, The police and secret service officials had difficulty in keeping the crowds Ibehind the lines.
Leaves For Capitol
German Charge
Ho A-kin, Chinese Quartermaster of the ship.
These two, the famous commander
on the bridge of the liner as she drove through the Atlantic swell bringing war supplies to Britalo,
a
Six.
had been.
when suddenly out of the sun dived
roving Nazl bomber. Captain Thomas stood out on the wing
of the bridge and watched for At 11.30 am. President Roosevelt shouted an order to the quartermas- the first bomb to fall. Then he left the White House enroute to theter at the wheel Capitol where a colourful group of diplomats had met in the Capitol she had been but a little tug-boat, The huge ship swung round us if building, resplendent in their gold
and the bomb-tell harmlessly in the TOKYO, Jan. 21 (Domei).An braid and silver scabbards in readi killed even though the mon beds of the export of French Indo-China to the platform where the President the Nazi tried to hit the "If the spirit of America were agreement of views on the problem ness to parade through the rotunda sea where only a moment before the and mind, constricted
alien rice to In an
Japan. WOR reached on would take the oath of office, 20 feetliner and six times the skill of Cap- world, lived on, the American we know January 20 between the Japanese above the heads of the spectators. De tain Thomas and his Chinese quar- Democracy la Not Dying would have perished.
the delegations. Themmf, That spirit,
termaster saved the vessel. "But we Americans know that that faith, speake to us in our daily according to a communique Issued d'Affaires, dressed in a morning suit,
When machine-gun bullets began such is not true. Democracy is not lives in ways that are often un- yesterday evening by the Board of arrived early with his wife.
to rip round the bridge the quarter- dying. We know it because we have noticed. It speaks to us from other
Information.
Cheered By 100,000
master lay on its back and con- scen it revive and grow. We know nations of this hemisphere and from
The communique reade "Continu- At midday, 100,000 spectators in
tinued to steer with his hands that it cannot die because it is built those cross the sea, enslaved as well
their discussions of economic Capitol plaza cheered the arrival of
_above_his head. on the unhumpered initiative of in- as free
in-as
questions regarding French Indo- the President's automobile and the dividual men and women joined to- "Sometimes we fail to hear or heed legations headed by Ambassador Mr Hail to the
China, the Japanese and French de- United States Marine Band played tlon and steering
He could see nothing in this post- was extremely 'gether in g common enterprise-an voices because to us the pri-Hajime Matsumiya, and M. Rene scout cars equipped President's car.
these
Chief." Four army dimeult. enterprise undertaken
and Earried vilege of our freedom is such an old, Robin respectively, today the pro- The President waved a silic handker-with its machine-guns, riddling life.
with
machine through
With all its bombs gone the Ger- M free expression of old story."
renched guns surrounded the
man raked the liner from end to end Recalling President Washington's biem of export of French Indo-Chinu chief to the crowds. A squadron of boats and sending the chips nying sense that it is still sprending first inaugural address in 1700 when rice to Jupon. Discussions en other motor cycle units preceded the cat on every continent for it is the most he spoke of the "preservation of the matters are being continued." humane, the most advanced and in sacred fire of liberty and the destiny
from the deck..
by
the end the most unconquerable of all forms of human society, Mind of A Nation
of the republican model of govern-
and Frenchi Indo-China
an agreement of views
D V skape formatlan. Mrs Roosevelt rode directly behind the BOMBAY, Jan. 20 (Reuter).-The President's car followed by a ment" Mr Roosevelt declared, "If we Governor, Str
car Roger Lumley, lose that sacred fire, if we let it be reived and inspected a unit of
re bearing the retiring Vice-President, 20 Mr John Garner and then another "A nation, like person, lus a smothered with doubt or fear, then ambulances subscribed for by private car bearing the Vice-President elect, mind a mind that must be kept in- we shall reject the destiny that donors within a few weeks of the Mr Henry Wallace. formed and alert, that must know Washington strove so valiantly and Governor's appeal on behalf of the itself, that understands the hopes and 'sa triumphantly to establish.
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Mr Wallace took the oath of office minute before, the President took
his onth. Chier Justice Charles Evans Hughes administered the Pre- sidential oath and the retiring Vice- President, Mr John Garner, swore In Vice-President Wallace,
Freezingly Cold WASHINGTON, Jon. 20 (Reuter). Thousands of visitors from all over the country, Including a large con- Ungent from Canada, left crowded hotels and homes early to-day to at- tend the inaugural.ceremonies, many
But no one was Injured and the only visible damage was caused by n heavy bomb which made a near miss and exploded in the fathoms below.
many
L
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Vichy Policy Unchanged
Petain-Laval Meeting
The Petain-Laval meeting in. VICHY; Jan. 20 (Reuter).—
volves no change in policy, according to well-informed quar- ters here as reported by the
of them wrapped in rugs and furs Havas" agency. because the weather was freezingly
or
cold the
though the sun was shining The agency says. "In well- brightly.
Informed quarters it is declared that After the Church service, Pre-the evergrowing prestige of Petain sident Roosevelt and family returned throughout France has allowed him to Ho the White House" in an open car
take such an Initiative while in no jand were enthusiastically cheered by
way modifying the internal
CX- the erowds lining the route. The
ternal policies. President later left the White House and drove up the broad befiagged Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capito smid more cheering throngs.
A New Meaning The various ceremonies had all the colour
of past inaugurations but there when new meaning owing to Jevents abroad.
Washington was no crowded that some visitors who came by car brought trallers in which to live, and railway companies temporarily housed passengers In "Pullman cilles" in milway yards.
Thousands of people stamped and shouted as Mr Roosevelt waved his silk hat to the crowd along the route to
die. Capitol, The crowd WAS estimated
at 75,000.
"It is added that the Marshal, who remains at the head of France, occupied or free, as well as beyond the sens, has complete and absolute authority which is recognised by all."
GREEKS SINK SUBMARINE
LONDON, Jan. 20 (Reuter)...----An Italian submarine has been sunk by anti-submarine defences, This la announced by the Minister of Marine quoted by the. Athens radio.
the oath to President Roosevelt, who
was standing bareheaded,
Sensational Incident WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (Router). A sensational incident marked the closing stages of the presidential in- auguration,
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present
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In aid of the S. C. M. Post
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Table seats can be reserved at the Club (Tel, 57018) Ladies at $1.50 and Gentlemen $2.00
The talented Chinese dan cor Miss Ai-lion Tai is shown above in a graceful pose from her pastoral dance "Ruth" which is one of the numbers, she will present at the China Hospitals' Benefit show at the King's Theatre to-morrow at 9,30 p.m.
R.N.R. Officer's:
Appeal Ends
Court upon Vincent Oswald Peters, 40, Lieutenant of the British Naval Reserve, upon conviction of violation was concluded yesterday afternoon in the Osaka District Appelate Court..
The judgment will be pronounced, on February 3.
An escort of Police and Secret Servicemen guarded President Roo- sevelt as be drove 10 the Capitol accompanied by Mr Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House of Representa- tives, and Senator Baridley, Democra- An unidentified man, carrying a tie. Leader of the Senate, Mrs. Roo-londed revolver, was arrested by sevelt occupied the second cor, Mr secret service men In the square. SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" John Garner, the former Vice-Pre-fronting the White House just before OSAKA, Jan. 21 (Domel)-The aldent, the third car and Mr and Mrs the President returned from the six-day appeal hearing against the Henry Wallace followed.
Capitol. The man was taken to hos- 18-year bard Inbour sentence imposed Chief Justice Hughes administered · pital for examination.
on January 20 by the Kobe · District ¦enmera,
The appeal hearing was heard\In.