August 22, 1935, President Roosevelt greeted by telephone the Bi-Centennial Celebration of the first permanent settlement in Missouri:
"The history of the town of Sainte Genevieve eloquently testifies to the fortitude of those pioneers who built their homes on the western bank of the Mississippi ... We admire that Christian courage which refused to be daunted by Indian depredations and massacres
"The Young Turkish gang who gained power when they had deposed Abd-ul-Hamid, have surpassed even that monster of cruelty in their slaughter of the unoffending Armenians ...
is now, oppressing or massacring, slaughtering or driving from their homes, the Christian population of Greek or Bulgarian stock ... and Cilicia, and Syria..."
"We have seen the treacherous use of the 'fifth column' by which persons supposed to be peaceful visitors were actually a part of an enemy unit of occupation ...
... These trouble-breeders have but one purpose. It is to divide our people into hostile groups and to destroy our unity and shatter our will to defend ourselves."