The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-23
Endorsements President Leads Prom inent Citizens in Ap- proving Defend
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 "In our unity, in our American unity, we will pursue two obvious and simultaneous courses; we will extend to the opponents of force the material resources of this nation and, at the same time, we will har- ness and speed up the use of those resources in order that we ourselves in the Americas may have equip ment and training equal to the task of any emergency and every de- fense. We will not slow down or detour. Signs and signals call for speed-full speed ahead" PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. Despite the views of the narrow isolationist, America does have vital interest in the continuation in this world of the English, French and Norwegian way of life. If the tOtalitarian states prevail the odds are very substantial that we shall have to meet them in armed con- flict when they have been victorious over the democracies. . On behalf of our peace and security and our own spiritual values we should give the democracies such assistance as we can, short of war;"
 WENDELL WILLKIE.
 
 Mine minutes was the time con- stunned when a square mile of the | city of Rotterdam was utterly blot ted out.
 There was never much virtue in any war, but the new kind has re- versed the standards painstakingly set up by the greatest and best of the nations.
 "They of the Axis have taken over ten or more nations already and are fighting hard for more. These are facts plainly spread be- fore us and they lead to only one reasonable conclusion.
 Since the new kind of organized evil can only respect bombing air. planes, let us have them. Since it only pauses when there are tanks and machine guns and men in uni- form let us have them, in order that we may safeguard democratic liberty for ourselves and for the millions who already have been robbed of it."
 CARRIE CHAPMAN GAIT
 "The Allies are really our own soldiers and sailors, and are being slaughtered in vast hecatombs in our cause as much as if they wore our. uniform. They. are. making vicarious atonement for our sins of unpreparedness. If we let them fail without 9 supreme effort in their behalf, we shall deserve the fate of those who prize their liberty SO lit- tie that they will not put forth their hands to save it. To delay or to play the miser with the Allies now is to play the traitor to ourselves" =.
 RUPERT HUGHES
 People are still deluding them graphical isolation. Nothing is fur- them from the truth. If the Nazis should win everything that we have cherished, everything that we have fought for since our earliest days would be in the greatest danger. Even if armed attack should not come immediately-as it well might we would be under continuous threat to our territory and to our liberties. This country could not hope to compete either in a military or economic way with the salve labor of Nazi controlled world"
 HERBERT H. LEHMAN
 There is no question of sending our young men to Europe. But we should help the Allies now with every means short of an actual dec- larati0n of. war. We. should send munitions, food, extend credit, and take our part in a life and death struggle for religion, morality, and freedom"
 WILLIAM LYON PHELPS
 "The Nazi flood of destruction threatens not only our physical safety and lives, but also the moral and intellectual values we hold pre- cious. Should Nazi power dominate this country it would mean the end of all we value most in our educa- tion, in our scholarly pursuit of truth, in our teaching of human brotherhood and kindliness."
 VIRGINIA c. GILDERSLEEvE H
 l Perhaps it is the doom, the 0b- ligatiOn and the privilege of each generation to lay it's own Hitler by the heels, and since England and France have put their hands to this task, the most that we can do to help them is the least we should do. I am one of those who believe that by such help, given now and with out stint, we shall best defend all that we are and most of what we have. It seems to me that the isola- tionists are not only faithless to this country's tradition, but frivo- Iously indifferent to the freedom and well-being of all Americans for a hundred years to come" ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT
 Already the Germans have cut our foreign trade and imposed on us burdensome armament pro- gram. This is a faint foretaste of what is in store unless we act swift ly and save the Allies from a crush- ing defeat.
 "The moral issue is between the triumph of interruptions and brutal tyranny and forces which promise an orderly world in which free men can breathe. I do not see how we can hesitate"
 HENRY SLOAN COFFIN
 
 Speaking for my friends and as- sociates In the theatre. I am glad Co say that the Committee to De- fend America by Aiding the Allies represents their sentiments whole- hesrtedly.
 sAmerlcans from coast Co ceast