The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-12-30
PRESIDENT SAYS NATION
 MUST BE GREAT ARSENAL
 0FDEM0(RA(Y AND WHY
Asserts If Great Britain Is Defeated, Amerta Will Be Living al Point of Gun Says There Is No Chance for Peace Talk Does Noi Believe Axis Powers Will Win = Country Must Defend Itself, Also Give Aid 10 Those Being Invaded by Brute Force

made the suggestions, that the United States has mo right or reason to encourage the talk of peace until the day shall come when there is clear intention on ] the part of aggressor Nations to abandon all thought of dominat- l ing or conquering the world.
 If Great Britain goes down, the Axis Powers will control the con- tinents of Europe, Asia, Africa. Australia and the High Seas and be in position to bring enormous military and naval resources against this Hemisphere.
 At Point of Q Gun
 Tt is no exaggeration to say all of us ir the Americas would be living at che point of a gun--n gun loaded with explosive bullets, economic as well as military"
 The President said the defeat of Great Britain will bring a new and a terrible era for the whole world.
 To survive in such a world O. brute force said the President, this Nation will have to become per- manently a militaristic power.
 Danger Ahead
 Frankly and definitely, there :s danger ahead-a danger against which we must prepare, but we well know we cannot escape this danger or fear of it by crawling into bed and pulling the covers over our heads" said the Presi- dent
 Asserting that some European Nations, which had noninterven- tion pac.s with Germany, have been attacked. overrun and thrown into a modem form of slavery, the President said the fate of these Nations tells us what 1t means to live at the point of Nazi gun"
 Cannot Appease Nazi
 Experience of the last two years, the President declared has proved beyond all doubt no Nation can appease the Nazis. No man can tame the tiger into a kitten by stroking 1t.
 There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness.
 There can be no reasoning with incendiary bombs.
 We know how a Nation can have peace with the Nazis-only at the price of complete surren- der"
 Declaring that even the Italian people have been forced to become accomplices of the Nazis, Presi- dent Roosevelt added.
 Italians May Be Gobbled
 At this moment they do not know how soon they will be em- barrassed to death by their allies"
 The President then said he wished to make direct state- ment to the American people 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 to their defeat and submit tamely to an Axis victory and wait our turn to be the object of attack in another war later on. Our national policy is not directed toward war. Our sole purpose is 70 keep war away from our country and our people,
 Appeal to Labor, Industry
 President Roosevelt urged that industry. labor and the people of the entire nation, work shoulder to shoulder in the cause of na- tional defense. banning strikes ab- solutely He urged the manufacture of planes, tanks, everything used in war, be pushed to the limit and without any obstacles thrown in the way of such production. He asked that the people of this na- tion realize fully the conditions of the present and meet them.