Evening star., 1941-07-23
Text of WeIIes' Address
Acting Secretary Of Stote Sees
Need of Enforcing Disarmament

Here is the tert OF speech
! BY Sumner Welles. Acting Secre-
tary OF State. made last night at
the Norwegian Legation:
! We are met here today to join in
! the dedication of the new wing OF
! the Norwegian Legation in Wash
/ ington
I These ceremonies are surely SYM
bolic Of the hope and of the faith
with which We meet.
Those of us who are citizens of
the United States are taking part
in these dedication ceremonies not
only because of the welcome privilege
which it affords us of rendering this
tribute to our traditional friends
the heroic people of Norway, but also
because We can thus best evidence
our conviction that the Kingdom of
Norway of the past. as we have
known it, some day-and we trust
that day will come soon-will once
more be free and independent.
Still Heroic.
We here in the United States will
always remember the superb courage
with which the Norwegian people
fought in the defense OF their homes
and of their liberties against the
Overwhelmingly superior strength of
an invader who had treacherously
taken them by surprise. We know
how bravely they are still fighting
with their allies on sea and land in
many parts of the world.
We shall always remember the
heroism of their monarch and of
their Crown Prince. And We have
heard with emotion the words Of
/ that same monarch when he said to
his people only few days ago: Hold
out Don't lose courage. And be
assured that Norway will once again
be free and independent, provided
( that we all continue to do our duty
and our utmost to reach our goal
/ in the battle which is now being
/ fought"
! Those words seem to us to ex-
emplify the soul of a people which
will never admit defeat and which
will never be cowed by alien DOM
| nation.
! But in a larger sence these cere-
monies constitute an act of faith in
/ the ultimate victory of the forces of
human liberty: in the triumph of
civiliza ton itself over the forces of
| barbarism.
Confident in Cause.
I feel that there are joined with
us in spirit here today, as silent
witnesses, the peoples of all of the
other countries which have been
mercilessly overrun during these
past two years I know that they
believe as We do that out of this
/ holocaust into which the nations of
/ the earth have been plunged by the
criminal obsession of world conquest
of one man and of the satellites who
surround him there can come no
peace until the Hitlerite government
of Germany has been finally and
utterly destroyed.
For I am confident that the cause
of liberty ano of freedom will not
go down to defeat. The determina-
ton and courage of free men and
women everywhere must now be ex-
ercised to the full limit of endurance
until their victory is won.
And yet, I do not doubt that mil
lions are asking Congratulations
In England and in China-millions
/ of enslaved peoples in Norway and
in the other countries now tenn
porarilv occupied-millions in the
countries which have not expert
enced war-yes, and millions in Ger
many and in Italy-are asking, what
does the future hold for us after
/ this struggle is over?
Great Responsibility.
Does the end of the present
carnage mean only return to
ruined homes: to the graves of
| slaughtered wives and children: to
! poverty and want: to social upheaval
and economical chaos: TO the same
gray and empty years of confusion
and bitterness. so barren in vision
and in human accomplishment
which marked the decades after the
termination of the last war?
1t seems to me that those OF us
who are fortunate enough to be able
| to live as citizens of the free Amer
ican republics have our great respon-
sibility in the' framing of the an
swer to that question.
For We all of us now see clearly,
if we did not before, that no matter
how great our American capacity
for defense may be. no matter how
perfect our hemisphere system may
become, our future welfare must in
evitably be contingent upon the