Evening star., 1939-01-04
ARM FOR PROTECTION ROOSEVELT WARNS
Peace Not Assured at Munich.
President Informs Conoress:
Urges Continued U. S. SPENDING
Roosevelt Text

President ROOSeDeltS MESSAGE
to Congress follo,ps:
To the Congress of the United
States:
In reporting on the state of the
Nation, have felt it necessary
on previous occasions to advise
the Congress of disturbance
abroad and of the need of putting
our own house in order In the
face of storm signals from across
the seas. AS this Seventy sixth
Congress opens there is need for
further warning.
A war which threatened to
envelop the world in flames has
been averted, but it has become
increasingly clear that peace is
not assured.
All about US rage undeclared
wars-military and economic. kll
about us grow more deadly arma-
ments-military and economic.
All about us are threats of new
aggression - military and eco
nomic.
Storms from abroad directly
challenge three institutions in
dispensable to Americans, now as
always. The first is religion. It
is the source of the other two
democracy and international
good faith.
Religion, by teaching man his
relationship to God. gives the in
dividual sense of his own dig
nifty and teaches him to respect
himself by respecting his neigh
bors.
Democracy. the practice of self
government, is covenant among
free men to respect the rights
and liberties of their fellows.
International good faith. a sis
ter of democracy, springs from
the will of civilized nations of
men to respect the rights and lib
critics of other nations of men.
In a modern civilization all
three-religion, democracy and
international good faith-com-
plement each other.
Attack From Sources
Opposed to Democracy.
Where freedom OF religion has
been attacked, the attack has
come from sources opposed to de-
mocracy. Where democracy has
been overthrown, the spirit Of
free worship has disappeared.
And where religion and democ-
racy have vanished, good faith
and reason in international af-
fairs have given way to strident
ambition and brute force.
An ordering of society which
relegates religion, democracy and
good faith among nations to the
background can find no place
within it for the ideals of the
Prince of Peace The United
States rejects such an ordering
and retains its ancient faith.
There comes a time in the
affairs of men when they must
prepare to defend not their
homes alone, but the tenets of
faith and humanity on which
their churches. their govern
ments and their very civilization
are founded. The defense of
religion, of democracy and of
good faith among nations is all
the same fight. To save one
we must now make up our minds
to save all.
We know what might happen
to us of the United States if
the new PHILOSOPHERS of force
were to encompass the other con-
tinents and invade our own.
We. no more than other nations
can afford to be surrounded by
the enemies of our faith and
our humanity. Fortunate it is,
therefore, that in this Western
Hemisphere we have, under a
common ideal of democratic
government, a rich diversity of
resources and of peoples func-
tioning together in mutual re-
spect and peace.
That Hemisphere. that peace,
and that ideal we propose to do
our share in protecting against
storms from any quarter. Our
people and our resources are
pledged to secure that protect
ton. From that determination
no American flinches.
This by no means implies that
the American Republics disasso-
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