The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-01-03
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THE PRESIDENTS TALK

Virtually everyone with radIo was tuned ill last Sunday night to hear President Roosevelt discussing the state ot the world in an epic making fireside chat. Probably new CT Delore mas he sounded a aOteI which drew more praise from his fellow countrymen and less critieismI There were a few to be sure who saw 1t drawing the United States into war, but the vast majority saw in the Presidents words the best avenue by which we can hope to stay out Of war.
 Here are highlights of the Chief Executives talk:
 President Franklin D. Roosevelt told the Nation that fl Great Bri- IaIn Is defeated the United States Would be living at the point of a gun, and then declared that this country must be a great arsenal of Democracy
 The Chief Executive, broadcast ing over all networks, expressed the bele1 that the Axis Powers are not going to win this war.
 The President declared that this assertion is based "on the latest and best information
 No Talk ot Peace
 The President further said, eYi- dentIy replying to those who have made the suggestions, that the H. tied States has mo right or reason to encourage the talk or peace until the aay snail come when there is a clear intention on the part of ag gressor Nations to abandon all thought or dominating or conquer ing the world.
 IT Great Britain goes down, the Axis powers will control the con tInents or Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and the High Seas and De ill a position to bring enormous military and naval resources against this Hemisphere.
 At Point of a Gun
 Tt is no eXaggeration 10 say all of us in the Americas would be living at the point Of gun-a gun loaded with explosive bullets, ee- onomic as well as military
 The President said the defeat of Great Britain will bring a new and a terrible era for the whole world.
 To survive in such a world of brute force said the President, this Nation will have to become per manently a militaristic power.
 Danger Ahead
 Frankly and definitely, there is danger ahead-a danger against which we must prepare but we we'll or fear of it by crawling into bed and pulling the covers over our heads, said the President.
 Asserting that some European Nations, which had nonintervention pacts with Germany, have been at tackled, oyerrun and thrown into q modern form of slavery, the Presi- dent said "the fate of these Na- tions tells us what it means to live at the point of a Nazi gun
 Cannot Appease Nazi
 Experience of the last two years, the President declared "has proved beyond all doubt no Nation can ap- pease the Nazis. No man can tame the tiger into a kitten by stroking it.
 There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness.
 There can be no reasoning with incendiary bombs.
 We know now Nation can have peace with the Nazis-only at the price of complete surrender"
 Declaring that even the Italian people have been forced to become accomplices of the Nazis, President Roosevelt added:
 Italians May Be Gobbled
 At this moment they do not know how soon they will be embarrassed to ueath by their allies"
 The President then said he wish ed to make a direct statement to the American people-there is far less chance of the United States getting into war if We do all we can now to support the Nations de- lending themselves against attack by the Axis than if we acquiesce to their defeat and submit tamely to an Axis victory and wait our turn to be the object of attack in an- other war later on. Our national policy is not directed toward war. Our sole purpose is to keep war away from our country and our people,"
 Appeal To Labor, Industry \ President Roosevelt urged that