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As I've said, I was opposed to the third term on principle, and yet I saw no other alternative. As the international situation grew tighter and tighter, obviously Roosevelt's prestige because greater and greater throughout the country, particularly in European circles. There was great confidence in him because apparently, so far as the outward eye could see, he had saved the American people from a worse recession than the one they were in when he came into office. Some people in Europe even thought that he had pulled them out of the depression completely. Certainly we never went back into the depression completely, although I think a bona fide economist would say that it was never totally conquered until the war economy supplanted it. But certainly a great deal had been done to take the eage ofi it in suffering. A great deal had been done to stimulate industry. The courage of the American people had revived and they were coping with their economic and industrial life very well. So all over Europe and all over the united States there was a confidence in Roosevelt.

There was also a kind of intellectual confidence in him in, we'll say, learned or intellectual groups, although there were some protestors who didn't agree with what they called his economic theories - that is, the





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