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F.D.R. Pushes Barter

WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt today urged swift Congressional action to pave the way for barter of American farm surpluses for strategic war materials from Great Britain, Belgium and Holland--latest Administration move to aid Europe's Anti-Nazi-Fascist Blee.

At the 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.

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