The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-06

ithout explanation. Observers
I viewed the statement as designed tc
support the general administration
program of preparedness.
Hull, who is mentioning at White
Sulphur Springs, Va, said that q
basis for continental defense had
been established at the recent Pan
American consultative conference al
Havana. He said it was up to the
United States to be ready to back
up that compact by action.
1.-THE one and only sure way for
our nation to avoid being drawn
into serious trouble or actual war by
the wild and destructive forces now
abroad elsewhere in the world, and
to command respect for its rights
and interests abroad" he said, sis
for our people to become thoroughly
conscious of the possibilities of
danger, to make up their minds
that we must continue to arm and
to arm to such an extent that the
forces of conquest and ruin will not
dare make an attack upon us or on
any part of this hemisphere"
HulTs Statement Follows
1.-THE strong belief of the repre-
sentatives of the 81 American ma
tons at the recent Havana meeting
was that the military and other
sinister activities on the part of
some nations in other large areas
of world present real possibilities
that threat to any important part
of the Americas means a threat to
each and all of the American ma
tons.
ut was therefore agreed that full
and adequate preparations for con-
tinental defense could not be taken
too soon if the threatened danger
from abroad was to be checked and
terminated it was also the unani-
nous view at Havana that the
prompt strengthening of unity and
solidarity for the purpose of CONT
mental defense and for its imple-
mentation by concrete programs
supported by the 81 nations was in
dispensable to the safety, security,
peace and welfare of this hemi-
sphere.
There was general agreement
that if the peaceful nations of Eu-
rope had thus promptly organized
themselves for self-defense on the
most cooperative basis, the changes
are that their situation and that of
Europe would be vastly different to-
day. Instead many of those coun-
tries complacently relied upon ut
terances of peaceful purpose and
upon their own neutrality to safe
guard them against the mighty
forces of invasion, conquest, and
destruction. Some of them have
been overrun and destroyed by the
invader. Their fate should be a
tragic lesson to us.
Vast Lawless Forces
"The vast forces of lawlessness,
conquest and destruction are still
moving across the earth like say
age and dangerous animal at large.
BY their very nature, those forces
will not stop unless and until they
recognize that there exists I'M
breakable resistance.
"At Havana we forged new instru-
mentalitieS of continental defense.
These will be of vast Importance to
our nation and to every American
nation. But there are other and i'm
menSe tanks still before us.
Il would greatly prefer to say that
that we are safe in this country
and in this hemisphere from outside
danger. But I am firmly convinced
that what is taking place today in
many areas of the earth is a re-
lentless attempt to transform the
civilized world as we have known it
into world in which lawlessness,
violence and force will reign SUI
preme, as they did thousand years
ago. The people of this country can
not recognize too soon this fact and
its overwhelming significance for our
national safety and for the main
tenance of our national institutions.
Conscious of Danger
1.-THE one and only sure way for
our nation to avoid being drawn
into serious trouble or actual war
by the wild and destructive forces
now abroad elsewhere in the world,
and to command respect for its
rights and interests abroad, is for
our people to become thoroughly
conscious of the possibilities of
danger, to make up their minds
that we must continue to arm and
to arm to such an extent that the
forces of conquest and ruin will not
dare make an attack upon us or on
any part of this hemisphere.
To this end, each citizen must be
ready and willing for real sacri-
flee of time and of substance, and
for hard personal service. In the
face of terrific problems and condi-
lions, and until the present serious
threats and dangers have disap-
peared, we cannot pursue compla-
Gently the course of our customary
normal life.
Il feel constrained thus to offer
my views in the light of what is al
ready dangerously widespread
for world conquest and
for the destruction of most of the
worthwhile things which civilization
has given the human race"