During World War 2, the new Bethesda Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland is dedicated by the Naval Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (NBMS ) on its 100th anniversary. New hospital building. Guards out front marching. Patients on hospital beds. Pharmacists in a sterilization chamber. A nurse at work with equipment. A group of doctors in an operation theater performs a surgery on a patient. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt arrives at the hospital in a chauffeur driven motor carriage with other personnel to address the patients on the occasion. Patients in wheel chairs with their attendants. A large gathering of doctors, nurses and other staff and patients of the hospital outside the hospital building. President Roosevelt addresses the gathering. He says that there is a national shortage of doctors and nurses. Medical, surgical and nursing care should be given to every civilian. To allow use of medical staff for the war effort, he also cautions Americans to be cautious and safe, citing those civilians who drive recklessly and those who do not take preventive measures in industrial plants.
President Franklin Roosevelt's address to the American citizens on Brotherhood Day from the White House in Washington DC. President Franklin Roosevelt sits by a fireplace in the White House with his wife Eleanor Roosevelt and mother Sara Roosevelt. The President speaks to the citizens of America on a Sabbath Day which is observed as Brotherhood Day. He says the National Conference of Jews and Christians has set this day for the citizens to meet as believing Americans and not as Protestants or Catholics or Jews. And it is on this day that they can dedicate themselves to the things that unite them and not to the things that divide them. He says that even though there are differences in religious beliefs in the citizens of different parts of the country they must learn to respect those differences. America is a product of no single class, creed or race. All citizens have gained much from their forefathers who had come to the country from different parts bringing different beliefs that enriched their life. The religious issue is not between the various beliefs, but between belief and unbelief. This is the time for a religious understanding. The United States is still in the making. Its completion requires the same qualities of faith in God and man. It should be possible for them to melt social, political or economic problems of the citizens on an occasion like this through a spiritual awakening as Brotherhood Day is an experiment in understanding, a venture in neighborliness.
President Franklin Roosevelt's address to the American citizens on a Sabbath Day from the White House in Washington DC. President Franklin Roosevelt sits by a fireplace in the White House. The President speaks to the citizens of America on the Sabbath Day which is observed as Brotherhood Day. He says that the good-neighbor idea, as in international relationships, should also be brought into community relationships. The well being of a family must depend on the well being of the neighbor's family. It is understanding and fellowship that leads to spiritual awakening. He says that the National Conference of Jews and Christians should act towards this purpose of neighborliness. Associations of Good Neighbors should be formed in every town and city and in every rural community. These a ssociations would be able to cross the lines of creed or of economic status and bind together the citizens of all kinds.
President Franklin Roosevelt's address to the citizens of the United States on a Sabbath Day from the White House in Washington DC . President Franklin Roosevelt sits by a fireplace in the White House. The President addresses the citizens of America on the Sabbath Day which is observed as Brotherhood Day. He says that this is not the time to gain from religious differences but to gain from religious understanding. The citizens who have faith should remain binded together. The main religious issue is not between the various beliefs, but it is between belief and unbelief. It is all faith that is brought into question. Religion in different parts of the world is against irreligion. It is because of this challenge that all citizens must be able to cross the lines of creed and class and be bound together.
Eleanor Roosevelt and Sara Roosevelt in the White House in Washington DC. Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt with Sara Roosevelt, the mother of President Franklin Roosevelt. Eleanor Roosevelt, an author, speaker, politician and an activist, knits in the White House. Sara Roosevelt, the wife of businessman James Roosevelt.
U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt speaks to farmers in Washington DC. A large number of farmers in the lawn of the White House. President Roosevelt stands in the balcony of the White House and addresses the audience. A group of dignitaries behind the President. A number of microphones fixed on a railing. President Roosevelt addresses the farmers. He calls the audience pretty good looking. He says he has a few members of the Congress in captivity with him referring to the members of the House Agriculture Committee behind him. He informs the farmers that those who are non-supporters of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) have been trying to mislead the people by lying about the farm program under which the U.S. was operating. The President says that each one of them should spread the fact that not a single program of the AAA plans the destruction of food crops in the United States in spite of what the people may read or hear.
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