The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30

tne WOrlQ.
Let us no longer blind ourselves
to the undeniable fact that the evil
forces which have crushed and I'm.
dermined and corrupted so many
others r already within our own
gates. Your government knows
much about them and every day
is ferreting them out.
Their secret emissaries are &C.
tive in our own and neighboring
countries. They seek to stir up
suspicion and dissension to cause
internal strife. They try to turn
capital against labor, and vice-ver.
sa. They try to reawaken long
slumbering racial and religious en-.
mites which should have no place
in this country. They are active
in every group that promotes in.
tolerance. They exploit for their
own ends our national adherence
of war These trouble : breeders
have but one purpose. It is to di.
vide our people into hostile groups
and to destroy our unity and shat
ter our will to defend ourselves.
Aiding Agents
There are also American citi.
zens, many of them in high places,
who, unwittingly in most cases,
are aiding and abetting the work
OF these agents. I do not charge
these American citizens with be.
ing foreign agents. But I do charge
them with doing exactly the kind
of work that the dictators want
done in the United States.
These people not only believe that
we can save u own skins by shut.
ting our eyes to the fate of other
nations. Some of them 60 much
further than that. They say that
we can and should become the
friends and ven the partners oil
the Axis powers. Some of them
even suggest that we should imi.
tate the methods of the dictator.
ships. Americans never can and
never will do that.
The experience of the past two
years has proven beyond doubt
that no nation can appease the
Nazis. No man can tame a tiger
into a kitten by stroking it. There
can be no appeasement with ruth.
%lessness. There can be no reason.
ing with an incendiary bomb. We
know now that a nation can have
peace with the Nazis only at the
price of total surrender.
Even the people Of Italy have
been forced to become accomplices
of the Nazis; but at this moment
they do not know how soon they
will be embraced to death by their
Allies.
The American appeasers ignore
the warning to be found in the fate
of Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland,
Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands,
Denmark, and France. They tell
you that the Axis powers are going
to win anyway; hat all this blood
shed in the world could be saved
and that the United States might
just as well throw it's influence into
the scale of a dictated peace, and
get the best out of it that we can.
They call it a negotiated peace
Nonsense! Is it a negotiated peace
if a gang of outlaws surrounds your
community and on threat of eXter-
mination makes you pay tribute to
save your own skins?
Such a dictated peace would be nc
peace at all. 1t would be only an.
other armistice, leading to the most
gigantic armament ace and the
most devastating trade wars in his
tory. And in these contests the
Americas would offer the only real
resistance to the Axis powers.
With all their Wanted efficiency
and parade Of pious purpose in this
war, there are still in their back
ground the concentration camp and
the servants of God in chains.
Affairs OF DictatOrships
The history of recent years proves
that shootings and chains and con-
c%entration camps are not simply the
transient tools but the very affairs of
modern dictatorship. They may talk
of a new order in the world, but
what they have in mind is but a re-
vival of the oldest and the worst
tyranny. In that there is no liber-
ty, no religion, no hope.
The proposed new order" is the
very opposite of a United States of
Europe or a United States of STA.
1t is not a government based upon
the consent Of the governed. 1t is
not a union of ordinary, self-respect-
ing men and women to protect them
selves and their freedom and their
dignity from oppression. It is an
unholy alliance Of power and pelf to
dominate and enslave the human
race.
The British people are conducting
an active wal against this unholy al
lance. Our own future security is
greatly dependent on the outcome Of
that fight. Our ability to keep out
of war" is going to be affected by
that outcome.
Thinking in terms of today and to-
morrow, I make the direct ~tate-
ment to the American people that
there is far less chance of the United
States getting into war, if we do all
we can now to support the. nations
defending themselves against attack
by the Axis than if we acquiesce in
their defeat, submit tamely to an
Axis victory, and wait u turn to
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