Arkansas State press., 1941-05-30
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THIS Is NO TIME FOR
APPRAISERS!
WASHINGTON, MAY 20.

Night "flreside chat, comparable
10 Lneoln's historic Emancipation
Proclamation, strongly and wildly
placed before the American Peo-
pie and the world of democracies
the grave emergency occasioned
BY the ever widening conflict in
The Old World.
The appeasers, who refuse to
view the international scene as it
makes its way with increased
velocity toward the Western
Hemisphere, must have received
heavy jolt when our President
said -"What we face is cold,
hard fact ~
While the German Government,
after being informed of the poll
eies Of the United States, refused
to spend their opinion on Mr..
Roosevelts pronouncement, it with
out any question can reshape its
strategy of continuous aggres-
sion if it proposes to defer for
ever the expected battle with I'm
Gle Sam For defeat she Ger
many will face if her present
policies bring the United States
into the conflict. Likewise, she
is doomed by the plan of Ameri-
ca to continue "all out aid to be-
leaguered demoeracies,
The President traced the meth
DDS used by Adolf Hitler in gain
ing the confidence of smaller and
weaker nations under the disguise
of "a new order" 1t was explain
ed how Hitler's tightening at
lacks have given rise to world
wide resentment. His persecution
of the Jews; his announcement of
Christianity; his description of the
Nero as being a Monkey and hav
ing no thinking faculties, and
how, as our Chief Executive ex-
planned, Hitler would assure the
world after a blitzkrieg that-"I
nm now completely satisfied. This
Is the last territorial re-adjust-
ment | will seek"
Consequently, to measure UP
military and civilian life to the
acts before us, it was necessary
that the COMMANDMENT chief of
Our Army and Navy declare our
country as being on a FULL
EMERGENCY basis. To circum-
vent any interruption of this pro-
gram he called upon the Ameri-
IAN people and the peoples who
rake up the 81 American Repub-
les and the Dominion of Canada
10 UNITE for the duration of the
conflict until Hitlerism has been
put to death.
Some Of the ways in which this
'esolute objective can be ac-
were listed as fol
lows
/. eve reassert the Ancient
American Doctrine of Freedom of
Seas.
2. 1--WE reassert the solidarity
Of the 81 American Republics ard
the Dominion of Canada in the
preservation of the independence
IS the hemisphere
3. ave have pledged materia'
support to the other Democracies
Of the world, and we will fulfil
that pledge.
a. Eve in the Americas will
decide for ourselves whether ant
when and where our American in
terests are attacked or our secur
ity threatened.
5. eve are placing our arme'
forces in strategic military posi-
tions. ~"
G. 1--WE will not hesitate to us
our armed forces to repel attack
Z. ave reassert our abidin'
faith in the vitality of our con
stitutional Republic as a perpet
nal nome of freedom, of toleranc
and of devotion to the word o
God.
3. therefore, with profoun
consciousness Of my responsible
ties to my countrymen and to m
country's cause, | have tonight is
sued a proclamation that an VI
limited National Emergency e.
lists and requires the strenther
ing of our defense to the el
treme limit Of our National Pow
er and authority
Accept World Consecrated
Ts Freedom"
Although Franklin Delano Roc
sevclt's talk to the nation reflec
ed the dark days ahead for III
American people, numerous sect
ions in the carefully messau
| provided considerable room fo
hope, peace and security. W
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awe will accept only a worl
consccrated to freedom Of speec
! and expression-freedom Of ever
rerson to worship God in his ow
way freedom from want, an
freadom from terrorism Il sue