PHILADELPHIA--President Roosevelt tonight restated his promise to keep America out of foreign wars and charged his Republican opponents with using propaganda technique of the dictators in a verbal blitzkrieg of deliberate mis-statements.
In an address to the entire nation by radio, Mr. Roosevelt asserted many of the charges against him "must be deliberate falsifications of fact." He did not mention Wendell L. Willkie by name but he made it clear that his address was directed at his opponent in the third term race.
It was Mr. Roosevelt's first direct campaign attack on his opposition and came, he explained, only because he felt the time has come to "look at the record" of a "blitzkrieg of verbal incendiary bombs" conducted by opponents of his third term.
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