ing to take a look at some old newsreel they may be a little scratched and worn but they still tell a story it's right so happens that they tell the story of a people who lived on an island an island called the united states of america it was a big island and a rich island here where the world's tallest building here where the world's longest bridges there were the most telephones on the most radio the biggest  dams and i draw electric projects here are a great industries that made the world's highest wages here in abundance were iron copper kember limestone and petroleum all it seems all of the great basic natural resources and in addition here the farmers produce more and more fruit beef or not milk butter a century than the people could eat in other words this island had everything including the security of a broad ocean on either side well folks i don't think any of us need be reminded of for the harbor we had the industries we had the resources and besides that we were good and so are we don't arm ourselves and we still need our lend lease commitments that is hemisphere that was plain to everybody we'd been asleep and while we'd been asleep our enemies had planned long and well from embassies and consulates in all the americas they had gathered more information on the western hemisphere then we had ourselves in latin america hundreds of german embassies consulates and businesses had done everything within their power to make friends for hitler and to broadcast suspicion and antagonism toward the united states the same c said of hundreds of german social an athletic club exactly as they had up here all over latin america they had organized crime and in many instances completely not surprised the whole community of largely german angeles and san diego our shipyards on the gulf are industrial cities in the deep south and especially the panama canal here at home we've had another road awakening we had the industry t make sure and we did as fast as we could but without the addition of a certain amount of live natural rubber a tire for example just wouldn't stand up with power from dva we'd been making more than enough nitrates for peacetime requirements but suddenly this was only a drop in the bucket with the surrender of the philippines we also found we could not fight a war in the east without trying to find the topic for malaria showing up quinine had come from this hemisphere even now on bottom our costa rica ecuador colombia and burrows there were scattered kin kona planting trees whose bark would give us cry night but these were not our tree they belong to our neighbors the over a low smoky fire somebody had to transport it to the river bank we needed rubber needed every one of these balls bouncing into the river on the first step in their journey to us and we needed somebody to get the rubber o pork no radio but again somebody had to get it out and even more important they had to want to sell it to us not that somebody else latin america could supply us with the industrial diamonds vital to our perception machine or latin america can send us most essential in the construction of lightweight mosquito bombers and lighter they could send us mahogany for p t boat sails for sprays and paint they c no more bumper crop some corn and wait in fact without certain latin american insecticide way to make pace with a serious menace to public health we had lost our him but here in mexico and central america and fear with the morning lines for our ships our cargo slangs and landing that somebody had to harvested and processed somebody had to get it out and want to get it out yes we were the people who lived on the island that had everything but we learned that we were not so selfish to make it as we thought well folks we got roberts not all we could have used but enough we got our ten on our clients and what is most important we got it in a hurry it cost a lot of effort and a lot of money some people i understand even said that it cost too much but what i'd like to do is well here's one of our flying cadets coming in from his first solo those tires folks i'd like to ask him what he thinks a little natural rubber is worth on the pride of this fighter landing on a i'd like to ask these boys shaking with malaria in the pacific but they think we ought to a favor krajina and going back to this meeting in rio de janeiro in one thousand forty joe i'd like to ask what the vote of confidence of these foreign ministers meant to us at that critical moment here we learn that what our latin american neighbors had we could have thought we were fighting for we would all fight for and this is something we must not forget and now let us hear of the military contributions of our neighbors from the commander of the army transport command major general harold dale jr for reasons of security many of the contributions of our friends and neighbors in mexico central america the caribbean and south america cannot be revealed until after the war but from a military point of view in terms of manpower the friendly cooperation of the other american also by way of the same basic casualties are being flown home for treatment and rest up and down shipping lee operating in conjunction with our own naval and air forces sea and air patrols of brazil and mexico and the caribbean america have hunted down enemy summary in line of duty latin american seamen have gone down gallantry in latin american ships in weighing the value of the latin america to the whole war effort i think we can even say that without the other america north africa might be in enemy hands this if you remember was the situation between  rummy on the outskirts of alexandria and his objective the suez canal where the british under montgomery virtually cut off from supplies and replacements by sea as well as by land in no condition certainly to launch an lead bombers and fighters if we couldn't get them to cairo but we had an idea planes could fly the caribbean they could also fly the atlantic and as a hub for this operation brazil has granted built without the aid of brazilian materials and later no more than could we have built a whole system of landing fields across the continent of africa without first having had our base that they tell from here every tool every item o sometimes direct from the factory the law just a thought meant and volume of military cargo ever to be carried by air we flew jeeps and small field pieces airplane mode and spare propellers we flew special ammunition along with our equipment had to go our own maintenance crews and personnel in conceding his brother had overlooked just one point with an air base on the boat to brazil we could apply the atlantic just as readily from west to east as he would have been able to do from east to west here in cairo and alexandria u c b and delivered to our allies the fresh trickle of materials that swelled into a burning stream to the beleaguered military experts have often referred to the battle of element as a turning point of the war it was the first step toward making the invasion of north africa possible and essential steps before italy and europe could be invaded in that to rule the world there would have been no superior equipment here let's not forget that if it had not been yet that's how we can go back even farther than that as far back as the nameless labor recruit on his way to some rubber camp two thousand miles up the amazon we can go back to the anonymous brazilian ports minus the bolivian ten miners the chilean ni invasion of north africa just as they have been fighting at our side in italy in the south pacific and in europe and will continue to fight at our side on land on the scene and in the air where ever axis forces can be met and destroy d materials can be bought yes but good friends never there far to our latin american friends we say in your words show some eagles in our language that thanks a million we