fighting for their country while half a world away fighting for their country and for more than that country fighting for an idea the idea bigger that without the idea the country  in this brotherhood america was for one nation indivisible liberty and justice for the bigamist thirteen states along the atlantic seaboard pushed across the allegheny the ohio river the i lift my lamp beside the golden do the sweet feeding the good earth to make the midwest automobiles that are on the entire world we demand the highest standards and sanitation already food medical care our hospitals a model of the world economy we want the best for the average man woman or child but secularly cho we have reduced the hazard of being born from then on we protect foster and generally spoil the majority of our children but it doesn't seem to hurt them much they go to schools all kinds of schools again it got in public schools private schools great schools high school to twenty five thousand high school and the college and the last what twenty percent of all men in the armed forces and the high school the college in this war sixty three percent there are a great two weeks vacation the press yes it's the biggest but most important it's the phrase on or over twelve thousand newspapers of all shades of opinion books on every conceivable subject and more than six thousand different magazines not counting the comic churches we have every the nomination are sixty million of us regularly attend and no one has tell us which one to go to we elect our own neighbors the governess we believe in individual enterprise and opportunity for men and women alike we make mistakes we see the results the kind of people we are most easygoing sentiment but underneath passionately dedicated to the ideal our forefathers passed on the liberties and dignity of man they have toward the fields of pens potations communication or aviation wars would soon be as old fashioned as the horse and buggy we take we know that in war it's the common man who does the dime we bend over backwards for the boy but that our freedoms be endangered and we'll pay and suffer and fight to the last man that is the america that is the way of living which we fight today but at that price necessary if we want war at was to be no more war in their time or their children they spoke to our treaty obligations were destroyed once again men who were peaceful became the slaves of men who were by in washington d c our secretary of state made a most vigorous protest the american government does not intend to recognize any situation treaty or agreement which may be brought about by means of aggression but we the people have much time to think about and i'm sure we were wrestling with the worst depression in august some of us the day we rule germany tomorrow the world our kind of talk was that it must be on a hot day at war could buy a manufactured arms on the nations from the united states nine hundred thirty six when you were running around in july we were disturbed by news from space nov nineteenth thirty six the american institute of public opinion known as the gallup poll asked a representative cross section of american people if another war develops in europe should america take part again not ninety five percent we the people had spoke nineteen out of twenty of us said include us to further insulate ourselves we added a cash and carry amendment to the neutrality not only wouldn't we sell munitions but we wouldn't sell anything at all not even a spool of thread on less warning powers sent their own ships and paid cash on the line in the month in thirty seven the press services received a flight from asia we answered with china or three percent with japan who percent undecided fifty five percent we hadn't made up our mind about china armaments only to nations of war japanese had not declared war only went right on shouting scrap iron and aviation gasoline to japan in march nineteenth thirty eight now we had his word peace in our time at home with the gallagher screen very principles which made us the people we a military use never voted during peace in american history seen that a few years later it would look like peanuts this was the only answer the presiden on september the first nine thirty and i am actually amish smashed air lifted the embargo on bombs a new mission now we would say if purchased would pay and take the stuff away in their own ships american ships were still barred from combat zones meanwhile on the other side of the thirty nine the same question seventy four percent said we were with  i follow exports work a tail of to the limit which those responsible for our defense were willing to risk it was a fearful responsibility on one god with the possibility in fact the probability the danger was suddenly clubs countries conquered by the nastiest a possessions outside of your please possessions are in america germans who lived exactly as they did in europe twelve hundred german schools with nazi textbooks are meant to teach not to use also in brazil there were two hundred sixty thousand japanese taking orders from japan in ecuador within easy bombing range of the panama canal german airlines are going to stop german pilots were reserve officers of the l the greatest the world has ever known at least it would be the greatest maybe when completed in nine hundred forty four then in one thousand four it was only a paper in a fighting force at that time consisted of an army of one hundred eighty seven matches overran france so we called our minuteman the national guard to the forty eight states and placed them into federal service most important congress passed the selective service act for the first time in our history we began mobilizing a nominee while still a piece the first number is serial number one fifty a chain of bases spectrum from newfoundland to british canada these bases through a steel wall around the caribbean these bases gave new safety to the panama canal it was not clear to the aggressors that we were conscious of the threat they represented to our country mr burley assistant secretary of state tell us how they got together and tried to scare us off from thirty six it became june the twenty second nineteen forty one the success craze in that case took the longest step toward world conflict without any declaration of war they pledged into russia why did we supply war materials to the countries defending themselves against actions aggression was it our natural sympathies for people on willing to lose their freedom was it our engine antagonism to conquerors imposing their rule on others by some and we were the leading example of that free world that hitler was committed to breaking the sun would have been a defensive position if the aggressors had succeeded in co of the two billion people in the world the nazis would rule roughly one quarter of five hundred million people of europe and africa forced into slavery the labor for german german and to the preservation of american freedom as it has ever rendered in all its glorious history we  the second threat the japanese conquest was us japanese southward expansion was too dangerous to attempt without bases still standing in the philippines and our supply lines open the way to midway and i was they were in their way the japanese envoy smiling and correct arrive at the state