Page v TABLE OF CONTENTS 1933 Paper Page I Address before the Governing Board of the Pan American Union, April 12, 1933 ....................................... 1 II Message to the nations of the World, May 16, 1933 ........... 3 1935 III Statement on approval of the Neutrality Act of 1935, August 31, 1935 ............................................. 7 IV Address on Armistice Day, November 11, 1935 ................. 8 1936 V Address at Chautauqua, New York, August 14, 1936 (the "I hate war" speech) ................................... 11 VI Address before the Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace, Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 1, 1936 ............................................ 16 1937 VII Address at Chicago, Ill., October 5, 1937 (the "quarantine" speech.) ................................... 21 1938 VIII Message to the Congress recommending increased armament for national defense, January 28, 1938 ...................... 25 IX Address at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, August 18, 1938 ............................................. 27 X Message sent direct by the President of the United States to the President of Czechoslovakia and to the Chancellor of the German Reich, and through the Secretary of State to the Prime Ministers of Great Britain and France, morning of September 26, 1938 .......................................... 30 1939 XI Annual Message to the Congress, January 4, 1939 ............. 32 XII Letter to the Chancellor of the German Reich, April 14, 1939 .............................................. 40 XIII Address to the Governing Board of the Pan American Union, April 14, 1939 .............................................. 43 XIV Address before a joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives recommending revision of the neutrality law, September 21, 1939 .......................................... 47 1940 XV Address by radio to the Eighth Pan American Scientific Congress, May 10, 1940 ...................................... 54 XVI Address before a joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives asking additional appropriations for national defense, May 16, 1940 ....................................... 57 XVII Address at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va., June 10, 1940 ............................................... 62 XVIII Message to the Congress recommending additional appropriations for national defense, July 10, 1940 .......... 66 Page vi 1940 Paper Page XIX Message to the Congress informing them of the exchange of certain over-age destroyers for British naval and air bases September 3, 1940 ........................................... 70 XX Address to the registrants under the selective-service law October 16, 1940 ............................................ 71 XXI Fireside Chat on National Security and the Common Cause ("Arsenal of Democracy" speech), December 29, 1940 ......... 73 1941 XXII Annual message to the Congress ("Four Freedoms" speech), January 6, 1941 ............................................. 81 XXIII Third Inaugural Address, January 20, 1941 ................... 88 XXIV Address at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner Washington D. C., March 15, 1941 ............................ 91 XXV Address over the radio in celebration of Jackson Day, Fort Lauderdale Fla., April 1, 1941 .............................. 97 XXVI Address before the Governing Board of the Pan American Union, May 27, 1941 ......................................... 101 XXVII Message to the Congress relating to the dispatch of naval forces to Iceland, July 7, 1941 ............................. 110 XXVIII Joint statement of the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Great Britain ("The Atlantic Charter") August 14, 1941 ............................................. 112 XXIX Address over the radio concerning the attack upon the destroyer Greer, September 11, 1941 ......................... 114 XXX Address over the radio on Navy Day concerning the attack upon the destroyer Kearny, October 27, 1941 ...................... 120 XXXI Address before a joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives asking for the declaration of the existence of a state of war with the Japanese Empire, December 8, 1941 ............................................ 125 XXXII Address over the radio following the declaration of a state of war with the Japanese Empire, December 9, 1941 ........... 127 XXXIII Message to the Congress requesting the recognition of a state of war with Germany and Italy, December 11, 1941 ............ 133 XXXIV Address over the radio on the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the American Bill of Rights, December 15, 1941 ........................................... 134 1942 XXXV Annual Message to the Congress, January 6, 1942 ............. 136 XXXVI Address over the radio in celebration of Washington's Birthday, February 23, 1942 ................................. 143