WELL RECEIVED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 January 1943, Page 2

WELL RECEIVED

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S SPEECH

GIVEN GUARDED PRAISE BY REPUBLICANS.

(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, January 7

President Roosevelt’s address to Congress has caused a more favourable impression in Congress circles than any other he lias delivered since his war message in 1941, states a Washington message. Though the Republicans were naturally more conservative than the Democrats in commenting on the speech, they guardedly praised it.

BRITISH ENDORSEMENT.

HIGH SENSE OF PURPOSE.

(British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.0 a.m.) RUGBY, January 8. President Roosevelt’s address has received the endorsement of the entire British Press. “The Times” describes it as one of the President’s foremost utterances and one which breathed a high sense of purpose, without once losing a characteristic grasp of realities. The "Manchester Guardian” lays stress on the American production figures, which it says must be astonishing even to the President’s own countrymen. The "News-Chron-icle” contrasts the tone of the address with the despondent tone of Hitler's recent speeches, and adds: "Germany cannot hope to resist indefinitely the torrent of weapons and munitions now pouring from the Allied factories.'’