Word: warms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt lays great store by what he calls "the spirit of Warm Springs." This spirit is a very tangible, carefully cultivated attitude of cheerfulness, confidence, determination. It is designed to fortify the resort's paralysis patients, put heart into their fight for recovery. When he goes to Warm Springs, Franklin Roosevelt steeps himself in this spirit quite as purposefully as he exercises in its waters. Easter afternoon, when he went to the train which was to take him back to Washington after a ten-day rest, his smile and bearing clearly reflected the spirit of Warm Springs...
...same time he made it plain that his ominous farewell Sunday night to friends at Warm Springs, Ga.--"I'll be back in the fall, if we don't have a war"--constituted an indirect warning to dictators that they must reckon with this nation's moral, if not physical force in any war they may wage against the democracies...
Spring being a good time for Franklin Roosevelt to leave and rest at Warm Springs, Ga., the President last week left Washington on his first trip since he maneuvered with the Navy last month...
Outside of Tuskegee Mr. Roosevelt changed from train to automobile, thereafter interspersed his jaunt with talks on a favorite theme: let the South make itself self-sufficient. At Auburn, he recalled how when he first lived in Warm Springs, he found that all the milk, apples, meat, shoes for sale there came from the North. To make the South selfsupporting, he said, "means a lot of work. It means, incidentally, getting the South out of hock to the North. I don't believe that the South is so broke that it cannot put its own capital into the establishment...
...Warm Springs Roosevelt had less relaxation than usual. He made no public comment on the speeches of Adolf Hitler at Wilhelmshaven, of Neville Chamberlain in Parliament (see p. 19), but he talked long on the telephone with his foreign relations experts both at Washington and abroad. While he vacationed his special train stood ready on a siding 70 miles from Warm Springs for a quick return to the Capital. "A source close to the President" gave out that Adolf Hitler must be plotting to extend his conquests beyond Europe into Asia, into the Americas...