Video: 'Quebec Conference' (Aug. 25, 1943, at 8:26)

(Wednesday, August 25, 1943; during World War II) — U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt told the people of Canada today that if Adolf Hitler and his generals had attended the First Quebec Conference they would have realized that “surrender would pay them better now than later.”

The American chief executive came to Ottawa directly from the war council meetings at Quebec, which ended yesterday, to extend a virtual invitation to the enemy in Europe to lay down its arms now, in an address from the archway of the peace tower in the main parliamentary building of the Dominion.