Boundaries of Human Intercourse

from a radio broadcast of FDR at the San Francisco World's Fair, 1939

As the boundaries of human intercourse are widened by giant strides of trade and travel, it is of vital import that the bonds of human understanding be maintained, enlarged and strengthened rapidly.

President Roosevelt was a master of the radio speech, and had a gift for winning the nation's confidence. Was it commerce or kinky sex that the president was calling for? All this talk of "intercourse," "giant strides," "bonds," "enlargement" and "rapid strengthening" seem off-color. FDR continues:

Unity of the Pacific nations is America's concern and responsibility . . . their onward progress deserves now a recognition that will be a stimulus as well. May this, America's World's Fair on the Pacific, in 1939, truly serve all nations in symbolizing their achievements of all the ages past . . . and in amalgamating their destinies . . . one with every other--through all the ages to come.

Maybe this erotic panacea could have come to fruition had it not been for the Axis powers.