The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-11
ROOSEVELT WARNS
WHOLE WORLD IS
CONQUERORS' GOAL
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proclamation in which Queen Will
helmina of the Netherlands sum-
moned her soldiers to fight the in
vasion and voiced a Flaming pro-
test against thi; unexampled vio-
lation of good faith"
In the speech tonight, he told the
scientists:
What has come about has been
cause solely by those who would
use, and r using your inventions
of peace in a wholly different cause
those who seek to dominate
hundreds of Millions of people in
vast continental areas-those who,
if successful in that aim will, we
Lust now admit, enlarge their wild
dream to encompass every human
being and every mile of the
earth's surface"
Distance
And TO the distance which lies
between Am :ica and the battle
field of Europe, he asserted:
To-day we know that until re-
cent weeks, too many citizens of
the American republics believed
themselves wholly safe-physically
and economically am. socially
from the impact of the attack on
civilization which are in progress
elsewhere.
perhaps this mistaken idea was
ba. ed on the false teaching of
geography-the though that a dis
from war-tor~ Europ gave to us
lance of several thousand miles
some form of mystic immunity
which could never be Violated"
In the ne world, he said, I'VE
live for each othe- and in the
service of a Christian faith" That,
he termed ''our solution" But ne
permanent or sole" if it solves
the problem for the American ma
tons alone. That, he said, was
'the most immediate issue" be-
fore the Americas.
Can we continue our peaceful
construction if all the other con-
tinents embrace by preference or
by compulsion a wholly different
principle of life?" He Inquired.
Surely it is time for our re-
publics to spread that problem be-
fore us in the cold Light of day,
to analyze it, to ask questions, to
demand answers, to use every
knowledge, every SC. nc we pos
sess, to apply common sense and
especially to act with unanimity
and singleness of purpose.
81 Am a Pacifist"
II am a pacifist. You, my fell
low-citizen of twenty-one American
republics, are pacifists.
"But I believe that by over
whelming majorities you and l.,
in the long lun and i it be neces-
sary, will act together to protect
and defend by every means DUR
science, u culture, u freedom
and our civilization"
The President w-st-i no words
in getting into the subject which
had absorbed him throughout last
night and today. All came to the
convention hall tonight, Sc said,
with heavy hearts," All had seen
event follow event in lie last few
years, each one a "shock to
hopes for the peaceful develop
ment of modern civilization" he
continued. Then he added simply
t the day had seen "three more
indeT "ndent nations cruelty
invaded"
"In some human affairs" he
continued, "the mind of man grows
accustomed to unusual actions if
the r oft repeated. That is not
so in the world. happenings of to-
day-and I am proud that it is
not so.
II am glad that we are shocked
and angered by the tragic news
from Belgium, the Netherlands and
LUXEMBOURG"
This hemisphere, he went on, is
almost the only part of the earth"
in which such a meeting as that
which he addressed could take
place, for elsewhere war or poll
tics has compelled teachers and
scholars to leave their great call
ing and to become agents of de-
Favors Queen
After spending a largely sleepless
night last night receiving the grim
news from abroad, Mr.. Roosevelt
old reporters today that he was "in
ful sympathy with the very ex-
cellent statement" of the Dutch
queen.
The President indicated, in e
sponse to a reporters question,
That he believed American peace
prospects were unchanged by the
of Holland and Belgium.
IN congress, the invasion prompt