Evening star., 1940-11-03

sides Of the fence at the same
time. Ours is the foreign policy
of an administration which has
an undying faith in the strength
of our democracy today. full con-
fidence in the vitality of our
democracy in the future, and a
consistent record in the cause of
peace.
Our strength is measured not
only in terms of the might Of our
ornaments. 1t is measured not
only in terms of the horsepower
of our machines.
Faith In Institutions r.
Declared Necessary.
The true measure of our
strength lies deeply imbedded in
the social and economic Justice
of the system in which we live. (
For you can build ships and
tanks and guns galore; but they
will not be enough. You must
place behind them an invin-
chile faith in the institutions
which they have been built to de-
fend. 4,
The dictators have devised a
new system-or, rather a mod
ern, streamlined version of an
ancient system. ...
But Americans will have none
of that. They will never sub
NIT to domination or influence
by Nazism or Communism either.
They will hesitate to support
those of whom they are not abb
solutely sure.
Americans are determined to
retain for themselves, the right Of
free speech, free religion, free
assembly and the right which
lies at the basis Of all of them
the right to choose the officers
of their own Government in free
elections.
We intend to keep that free
dom-to defend it against attacks
from without and against corrup-
ton from within. We shall de-
fend it against the forces of die
tatorship, whatever disguises and
false faces they may wear.
We have learned, however,
that freedom in itself is not
enough.
Freedom of speech is of no use
to a man who has nothing to say.
Democracy Must Provide
Opportunity to Citizens
Freedom of worship is of no
use to man who has lost his
God.
Democracy, to be dynamic,
must provide for its citizens
opportunity as well as freedom.
We of this generation have
seen a rebirth of dynamic de-
mocracy in America.
: The American people have
faced with courage the most
severe problems of all OF our
modern history.
The start toward a, solution Of
these problems had to be made by
providing the bare necessities
of life-food and shelter and
clothing. The American people
insisted that these obligations
were concern of Government;
they denied that the only solu-
ton was the poor house.
Your Government assumed its
proper function as the working
representative of the average
men and women of America.
And the reforms in our social
structure that we have achieved
these permanent reforms are
your achievement.
Declares American People
Created the New Deal.
The New Deal has been the
creation of you, the American
people.
You provided work for free
men and women in America who
could find no work.
Idle men were given the op-
portunity on roads to be built,
homes to be erected, rivers to be
harnessed and power to be made
for farm and home and industry.
You used the power of Gov
ernment to stop the depletion of
the top soil of America, to stop
decline in farm prices, to stop
foreclosures of homes and farms.
You wrote into our law the
right of working men and wom-
en- to bargain collectively, and
you set up machinery to enforce
that right.
You turned to the problems Of
youth and age. You took your
children from the factory and
shop and outlawed the right Of
anyone to exploit the labor Of
those children; III you gave to