USA / POLITICS: Roosevelt assails Pagan trends (1936)

BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit US President Franklin D Roosevelt makes a speech on the need for the “spirit of religion“. Full Description: Franklin D Roosevelt (US President) speech SOT - I am happy to speak to you from my home on a sabbath day that has been observed in so many of your home communities as brotherhood day / No greater thing could come to our land today than a revival of the spirit of religion that could sweep through the homes of the nation and stir the hopes and the hearts of men and women of all faiths / The good neighbour idea, ideal as we are trying to practise it in international relationships, needs to be put in to practice in our community relationships / The very state of the world is a summons to us to stand together / Religion in wide areas in different parts of the earth is being confronted with irreligion / Our faiths are being challen