Evening star., 1940-12-30

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may take" But in that of all aid
to the democracies, he added, he
believes there is "the least risk now
and the greatest hope for world
peace in the future"
Assails Agsressors.
Probably never has the head of an
American Government at peace
spoken more belligerently or in more
direct scorn of another state than
did Mr.. Roosevelt last night. AL
though he did not mention Chan
cellor Hitler by name. he threw back
at the leader of the Nazis" receEt
Hitlerian pronouncement that Il
can beat any other power in the
world
The NaZi masters of Germany
have made it clear the President
declared. that they intend not only
to dominate all life and thought in
their own country. but also to en-
slave the whole of Europe, and then
to use the resources of Europe to
dominate the rest of the world.
In view Of the nature of this un-
deniable threat, it can be asserted,
properly and categorically, that the
United States has no right or reason
to encourage talk of peace until the
day shall come when there Is a
clear intention on the part of the
aggressor nations to abandon all
thought of dominating or conquering
the world"
Warns Against Axis Victory.
Victory for this axis combine.
which he described as "an unholy
alliance of power and self to domi-
nate and enslave the human race, "
would leave the Americas living
at the point of gun" the President
warned, "a gun loaded with explo-
sive bullets, economic as well as
military; new and terrible
era in which the underworld. our
hemisphere included, would be run
by threats of brute force"
Once he spoke of the "pious
frauds" by which Nazi spokesman
have justified the tactics of their
government in attacking and de-
stroying nearby nations, cautioning
that similar excuse might be given
for attempted occupation of South
American countries should the to-
talitarian bloc achieve control of
the seas, blocked to them at present
by the British, the Greeks, the
Chinese and the American feet in
the Pacific.
Secret emissaries of these "evil
forces" already are active in this
country and neighboring ones. Mr..
Roosevelt cautioned, attempting ito
divide our people into hostile groups
and to destroy our unity and shatter
our will to defend ourselves"
Aiding them, he went on, even If
sometimes unwittingly, are Amer
lean citizens-those who approve
totalitarian methods, those who
think appeasement can be obtained
by soft words, those who believe
Britain doomed and think America
should make its best bargain now.
No Dictated Peace, He Says.
"They call it negotiated peace"
he spoke almost angrily. Nonsense !!
Is it a negotiated peace if a gang
of outlaws surrounds your commu-
nifty and on threat of determination
makes you pay tribute to save your
own skins? Such dictated peace
would be no peace at all"
Beyond posing the overall ques-
ton of what specific sacrifices Amer
ica will be- called on to make in a
wartime production economy. Mr..
Roosevelt aroused speculation on
several other points.
Once he went beyond discussion
of the fate of the Americas if the
axis should win to ask what might
become of ireland, now under pres
sure to grant defense base rights to
Britain.
Gould Ireland hold out?" the
President queried would Irish
freedom be permitted as an amaz-
ing exception in an unfree world?
Or the islands of the Azores, which
still fly the flag of Portugal after
five centuries2"
Cites Italy's Position.
And again. after frequent denun-
citation of the NaziS and of the axis,
which includes the Fascist govern
ment, he made this distinction:
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"
An appeal to the Italian people
to reject their present Fascist lead
ership was made last week by Prime
Minister Churchill of Great Britain.
The President spoke from the
quiet of the oval room at the White
House, where his mother, Mrs. Sarah
D. Roosevelt, and some other guests
followed his address.
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