The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-30
Calls Upon Labor, Capital to Speed Up Production
 of War Essentials

e rupted so many others are already within our own gates. Your gOv- ernment knows much about them and every day is ferfetiI1g them out.
 Their secret emissaries are act- i've 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. versa. They try to reaWaken long sIumbering racial and re- ligiouS en1nitieS which should have no place in this country. They are active in every group that promotes intolerance. They exploit for their own ends our rla- ton abhorrence of war. These trouble breeders have but one purpose. It is to divide our people into hostile groups and to destroy our unity and shatter our will to defend ourselves.
 There are also American cite zens, many of them in high places, who, llnwittingly 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 do charge them with doing exactly the kind of work that the dicta- tors want done in the United States.
 Friends of Axis?
 These people not only believe that we can save our own skins by shutting our eyes to the fate of other nations. Some of them go much further than that. They say that we can and should be- come friends and even the part ners of the Axis powers. Some of them even suggest we should in1i- 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 6 tiger into kitten by stroking 1t. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb. Ke know now that a na- tion can have peace with the Nazis only at the price of total surrender.
 Even the people of Italy have been forced to become accomp- lices 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 1n the fate of Austria, Czecho- Slovakia, Poland, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, ark, and France. They tell you that the Axis powers are going to win anyway; that all this bloodshed in the world could be saved, and that the United States might just as well throw its influence into the scale of 8 dictated peace, and get the best of it that we can.
 They call it a negotiated peace" Nonsense! Is 1t a nego- tiated peace if a gang of outlaws surrounds your community and on threat of extermination makes you pay tribute to save your own skins?
 Another Armistice
 Such a dictated peace would be no peace at all. It would be only another armistice, leading to the most gigantic armament race and the most devastating trade wars in history. And in these contests the Americas would offer the only real resistance to the Axis powers.
 With all their vaunted effi- ciency and parade of pious pur- poses In this war, there are still in their background the concen- tration camp and the servants of God in chains.
 The history of recent years proves that shooting and chains and concentration camps are not simply the transient tools but the very altars of modern dictator ships. They may talk of a new order" in the world, but what they have in mind is but re- vival of the oldest and the worst tyranny. In that there is no liberty, no religion, no hope.
 The proposed new order" is the very opposite of a United States of Europe or United States of Asia. It is not a government bas- ed upon the consent of the gov- erned. It is not 8 union of ordi- nary. self-respecting men and women to protect themselves 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 conduct ing an active war against this un- holy alliance. Our own future se- curity is greatly depenGent on the outcome of that fight. Our ability to keep out of war" is going to be affected by that outcome.
 Direct Statement
 Thinking in terms of today and tomorrow, I make the direct statement to the American peo- pie that here 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 then if we acquiesce in their defeat, submit tamely to an Axis victory, and wait our turn to be the object of attack in an- other war later on.
 If we are to be compltely hon. est with ourselves, we must admit there is risk in any course we may take. But I deepiy believe that the great majority of our people agree that the course that I advo- cate involves the least risk now and the greatest hope for world Tl0aGA ii1 the ffitaHrA