The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-07
Sacrifices Necessary
 To Defeat Axis Power
No Time Now to Talk of Peace or Appeasement De-
 cIares Nations Chief Executive in Message

the state of the union follows:
 To the congress of the United States:
 I address you, the members of the 77th Congress, at a moment unprecedented in the history of the union. I use the word "unpre- cedented," because at no previous time has American security been as seriously threatened from with out as it is today.
 Since the permanent formation of our government under the con- stitution, in 1789, most of the periods of crisis in our history have related to our domestic af- fairs.
 Fortunately, only one of these --the four year war between the states-ever threatened our na- tional unity. Today, thank God, 130 million Americans in 48 states have forgotten points of the con- pass in our national unity.
 It is true that prior to 1914 the United States often had been dis turbed by events in other conti- nents. We have even engaged in two wars with European nations and in a number of undeclared wars in the West Indies, in the Mediterranean and in the Pacific for the maintenance of American rights and for the principles of peaceful commerce. Tn no case, however. had a serious threat been raised against our national safety or our independence.
 Not IsolatiOnist
 What I seek to convey is the historic truth that the United States as nation has at all times maintained opposition to any att tempt to lock us in behind an an- cient Chinese wall while the pro- cession of civilization went past. Today. thinking of our children and their children, we oppose en- forced isolation for ourselves or for any part of the Americas.
 That determination of ours was proved, for example, during the quarter century of wars following the French revolution.
 While the Napoleonic struggles did threaten interests of the Uni ted States because of the French foothold in the West Indies and in Louisiana, and while we en- gagel in the war of 1872 to vindi- cate our right to peaceful trade, it is. nevertheless. clear that neither France nor Great Britain nor any other nation was aiming at dom- ination of the whole world.
 In like fashion rom 1915 to 1914-99 years-no single war in Europe or in Asia constituted a real threat against our future or against the future of any other American nation.
 No Foreign Intrusion
 Except in the Maximilian inter- Jude in Mexico, no foreign power sought to establish itself in this hemisphere; and the strength of the British fleet in the Atlantic has been a friendly strength. It is still friendly strength.
 Even when the World War broke out in 1914, it seemed to contain only small threat of dan ger to our own American future. But, as time went on, the Amer ican people began to visualize what the downfall of Democratic nations might mean to our own democracy.
 We need not over-emphasize imperfections in the peace of Yer sailles. We need not harp on fail ure of the democracies to deal with problems of world recon struction. We should remember that the peace of 1919 was far less unjust than the kind of "pacification' which began even before Munich, and which is be- ing carried on under the new or der of tyranny that seeks to spread over every continent today. The American people have un- alterably set their faces against that tyranny.
 Democratic Way Assailed
 Every realist knows that the democratic way of life is at this moment being directly assailed in every part of the world-assailed either by arms, or by secret spreading of poisonous propa- ganda by those who seek to de- stroy unity and promote discord in nations sti' lat peace.
 During 16 months this assault has plotted out the whole pattern of democratic life in an appalling number of independent nations, great and small. The assailants are still on the march, threatening other nations, great and small.
 Therefore, as your president, performing my constitutional duty tion of the state of the Union," to give to the Congress informa- find 1t necessary to report that the future and the safety of our country and of our democracy are overwhelmingly involved in events far beyond our borders.
 Armed defense of democratic existence is now being ga'lantly waged in four continents. If that defense fails, all the population and all the resources of Europe, Asia, Africa and Australasia will be dominated by the conquerors. The total of those populations and their resources greatly exceeds the sum total of the population and resources of the whole of the west errl hemisphere-many times over.
 At times like these it is imma- tu-e-and incidentally untrue-for anybody to brag that an unpre- pared America, single handed, and with one hand tied behind its back. can hold of the whole world.
 No Security from Dictator
 No realistic American can ex- pect from dictator's peace in- ternational generosity, or return of true independence, or world disarmament, or freedom of ex- preSsion, or freedom of religion or even good business.
 Such a peace would bring no se-