The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-30
President Roosevelt HurLs Def AtAxis POUers In Spirited Speech
Indicts DictatOrs for Pres-
 ent War in Europe, Asia; No Peace Talk Now

Ing not only arraigned the totali- tarian governments Of Europe and Asia for their plot to dominate the world, but very definitely pledged full aid to Great Britain and Greece in their struggle to preserve Democracy. This is not the time to talk peace or appease- ment, he declared. He concluded his fOrty-minute address with a plea for national unity and urged labor and capital to cooperate i'm \. bringing Americas production capacity to the highest possible level. War essentials for self de- fense and war essentials for Great Britain in the greatest possible amounts will be Amer- ica's answer to the challenge of the Nazi, the Fascists and the Japanese.
 The text of the presidents ad- dress follows:
 This is not fireside chat on war. It is a talk on national se- curity; because the rub of the whole purpose of your President IS to keep you now, and your children later, and your grand children much later, out of last ditch war for the preservation of American independence and all of the things that American inde- pendence means to you and to me and to ours
 Tonight, in the presence of a world crisis, my mind goes back eight years ago to night in the midst of a domestic crisis. It was a time when the wheels of Amer ican industry were grinding to a full stop, when the whole banking system of our country had ceased to function.
 Visualizes Picture.
 well remember that while l sat in my study in the White House, preparing to talk with the people of the United States, had before my eyes the picture of all those Americans with whom I was talk ing. saw the workmen' in the mills, the mines, the factories; the girl behind the counter; the small shopkeeper; the farmer doing his spring blowing: the widows and the old men wondering about their life's savings.
 I tried to convey 10 the great mass of American people what the banking crisis meant to them in their daily lives.
 Tonight. I want to do the same thing, with the same people, in this new crisis which faces Amer ica.
 We met the issue of 1883 with courage and realism. We face this new crisis-thiS new threat to the security of our nation-with the Sam0 courage and realism.
 Never before since Jamestown and Plymouth Rock has our American civilization been in such danger as now.
 For, on September 27, 1940, by an agreement signed in Berlin, three powerful nations, two in Eu- rope and one in Asia, joined them selves together in the threat that if the United States interfered with or blocked the expansion pro- gram of these three nationS-a program aimed at world control they would unite in ultimate ac- tion against the United States.
 The Nazi masters of Germany have made it clear that they in- tend not only to dominate all life and thought in their own country, but also to enslave the whole of Europe, and then to use the re- sources of Europe to dominate the rest of the world.
 Three weeks ago their leader stated there are two worlds that stand opposed to each other" Then in defiant reply to his oppo- nents, he said this: Others are correct when they say: With this world we cannot ever reconcile ourselves . I can beat any other power in the world" So said the leader of the Nazis.
 In other words, the Axis not merely admits but proclaims that there can be no ultimate peace be- tween their philosophy of govern :. ,ment and our philosophy of gov- ernment.
 No Peace Talk.
 In view of the nature of this fundeniable threat, it can be as- serted, 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 clear intention on the part of the aggreSsor nations to abandon all thought of demi- hating or conquering the world. : At this moment, the forces of :. the states that are leagued against .rall peoples who live in freedom, are being held away from our -.ShoreS. The Germans and Ital- ians are being blocked on the other side of the Atlantic by the Hritish, and by the Greeks, and by .4tiousands of soldiers and sailors who were able to escape from sub jugated countries. The Japanese are being engaged in Asia by the i. Chinese in another great defense.
 In the Pacific is our fleet. ;. ' Some of our people like to be- lieye that wars in Europe and in Asia are of no concern to us But it is a matter of most vital concern to us that European and Asiatic warmakers should not gain control sOf the oceans which lead to this hemisphere.
 :. One hundred and seventeen years ago the Monroe Doctrine was conceived by our govern ment as measure of defense in the face of threat against this hemisphere by an alliance in con- tinental Europe. Thereafter, we stood on guard in the Atlantic, . with the British as neighbors. There was no treaty. There was, |, no ''unwritten agreement" 1. Yet, there was the feeling, prov en correct by history, that we as { neighbors could settle any disputes in peaceful fashion. The fact is that during the whole of this time . wwr~.Ao..w. TTa,s. fox.1a 1aae wa