For the most part, Coughlin's speeches in the last few weeks contained nothing new; he still concentrated all his efforts on criticizing the New Deal for failing to solve the depression by monetary reforms and for flirting with communism. One notable exception, however, was his radio talk of October 25 when he injected foreign affairs into the campaign by contending that the real issue in the election was peace or war. Roosevelt, the priest claimed, was dragging the United States into the League of Nations through the back door by playing a leading role at such international conclaves as the recent Pan American Conference at Buenos Aires. Such a course of action would surely lead to war in two or three years, since the League, in Coughlin's view, was a menace to world peace.