The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-13
F. :. ENUNCIATES
DEFENSE POLICY
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democracy.
mo combination of dictator coun'
tries of Europe and Asia Will STOP
the help we are giving to almost the
last free people fighting to hold
them at bay"
81. That, in its essence, appeared to
be his answer to the creation OF the
Observation-Disclosures alliance.
81 1--WE arm to defend ourselves
the President said. 1.-THE strongest
Z reason for that. is that it is the
strongest guarantee for peace.
go "The United States Of America is
mastering its men and resources
arming not only to defend itself, but
in cooperation with the other Amer
!: lean republics, to help defend the
z whole hemisphere.
= 1--WE are building a total defense
on land and sea and in the air, suf-
ficient to repel total attack from
: any part of the world. "Forewarned
by the deliberate attacks of the die
tators upon free peoples, the United
. States for the first time in it's his
tory, has undertaken the mastering
of it's men in peace time.
unprecedented dangers have
caused the United States 20 under
take the building of a navy and
an air force sufficient to defend all
the coasts of the Americas from
any combination of hostile powers"
Asserting that I'VE have learned
the lessons of recent years." Mr..
=, Roosevelt said that it could no
longer be disputed that forces of
evil bent on conquest of the world
would destroy whomever and
whenever they could destroy.
The people of the Americas, he
said, reject the doctrine of ap-
~peasement, recognizing it as a ma
jor weapon of the aggressor n
lions.
Appeasing them by Withholding
aid from those who stand in their
way, he said, would merely hasten
the day of their attack on us.
He emphasized that this coun-
try wants no war with any nation,
this hemisphere wants no war with
any nation"
And, on this side of the ocean,
he said, there is no desire and will
be no effort on the part of any
control any other.
$50 bound together" Mr.. Roose-
welt said, 1--WE are able to with
stand any attack from the east or
from the west"
The naval and air bases, strung
out in the Atlantic from New
foundland to British Guiana, were
acquired from Britain for the de-
tense not only of the United States
but also for that of the entire
hemisphere" he declared.
Yet he admonished Americans of
all types not to question the pos
sibility of danger of overseas.
"Why" he asked, Should we &C.
cept assurances that we are i'm.
mune? History records that not
long ago those same assurances
were given to the people of Hol-
land and Belgium"
None Second Class"
Reiterating that no nation in
this hemisphere has any desire to
subjugate the others, he said that
none of these countries was con
fsidered second class"
Striking out, then, at fifth COL
umn and propaganda activities, he
added:
1--WE know that attempts have
been made and we know that they
will continue to be made to divide
these groups within a nation, and
to divide these nations among
themselves.
There are those in the Old
World who persist in believing that
here in this new hemisphere the
Americas can be torn by the
hatreds and fears which have
drenched the backgrounds of Eu-
rope for so many centuries.
Americans as individuals, Amer
lean republics as nations, remain
on guard against those who seek
to break up our unity by preach
ing ancient ace hatreds, by work
ing on old fears, or by holding out
glittering promises which they
know to be false.
eve are determined to use u
energies and our to
1counteract and repel the foreign
plots and propaganda, the whole
technique of underground warfare
originating in Europe and now
clearly directed against all the re-
publics on this side of the ocean"
The President observed it was
mo mere, coincidence" that his
message was broadcast on the an
adversary of the New Worlds dis
scovery, when "all of us Ameri-
cans of North and Central and
South America join with our fell
low citizens of italian descent to
do honor to the name of Column
bus.
: Italians who emigrated to the
New World and became American
citizens, he continued, "have been
an essential element in the civil.
,ization and makeup of all the
:twenty-one republics. During these
centuries italian names have been
high in the list of statesmen in the