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and profitable trade relations
with YOU in the New World"

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with you in the New World"
And were any of us in the
Americas so incredibly simple
and forgetful as to accept those
honeyed words, what would then
happen?
Those in the New World who
were seeking profits would be
urging that all that the Dictator
ships desired was peace" They
would oppose toll and taxes for
more erican armament.
Meanwhile, the relationships
would be forcing the enslaved
peoples of their Old World con-
quests into system they are even
now organizing-to build naval
and air force intended to gain and
hold and be master of the At
lantic and the Pacific as well.
They would fasten an economic
stranglehold upon our several
nations. Quislings would be
found to subvert the govern
ments in our republics; and the
Nazis would back their fifth COL
umns with invasion, if neces-
sary.
I am not specializing about all
this. I merely repeat what is al
ready in the Nazi book of world
conquest. They plan to treat
the Latin American nations as
they are now treating the Bal
kans. They plan then to strange
the United States of America and
the Dominion of Canada.
The American laborer would
have to compete with slave labor
in the rest of the world. Mini
mum wages, maximum hours?
Nonsense! Wages and hours
would be fixed by Hitler. The
dignity and power and standard
of living of the American worker
and farmer would be gone. Trade
unions would become historical
relics and collective bargaining a
joke.
Farm income? What happens
to all farm SURPRISES without
any foreign trade? The Ameri-
can farmer would get for his
products exactly what Hitler
wanted to give. He would face
obvious disaster and complete
reorganization.
Tariff walls-Chinese walls of
isolation-would be futile. Free
dom to trade is essential to our
economic life. We do not eat all
the food we can produce; we do
not burn all the oil we can pump;
we do not use all the goods we can
manufacture. 1t would not be
an American wall to keep Nazi
goods out; 1t would be Nazi wall
to keep us in.
Nazi World Recognizes
No God but Hitler.
The whole fabric of working
life as we know it-business,
manufacturing, mining, agricul-
ture-all would be mangled and
crippled under such system.
Yet to maintain even that Grip
pied independence would require
permanent CONSUMPTION of our
man power; it would curtail the
funds we could spend on educa-
ton, on housing. on public works,
on flood control, on health. In
stead, we should be permanently
pouring our resources into arma-
ments: and, year in and year out,
standing day and night watch
against the destruction of our
cities.
Even our right of worship
would be threatened. The Nazi
world does not recognize any God
except Hitler; for the Nazis are
as ruthless as the Communists in
the denial of God. What place
has religion which breaches the
dignity of the human being, Of
the majesty of the human soul, in
a world where moral standards
are measured by treachery and
bribery and fifth columnists?
Will our children, too. wander
off, housekeeping in search Of
new gods?
We do not accept, and will not
permit. this Nazi shape OF things
to come" 1t will never be forced
upon us, if we act in this pres
ent crisis with the wisdom and
the courage which have distin-
guished our country in all the
crises of the past.
The Nazis have taken military
possession of the greater part OF
Europe. In Africa they have
occupied Tripoli and Libya, and
they are threatening Egypt, the
Suez Canal, and the Near East.
But their plans do not stop there,
for the Indian Ocean is the
gateway to the East.
They also have the armed
power at any moment to occupy
Spain and Portugal; and that
threat extends not only to French
North Africa and the western
end of the Mediterranean, but
also to the Atlantic fortress Of
Dakar, and to the island out
posts of the New World-the
Azores and Cape Verde Islands.
The Cape Verde Islands are
only seven hours distance from
Brazil by bomber or troop
carrying planes. They dominate