The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-05-29
EMERGENCY IS
PROCLAIMED BY
THE PRESIDENT
Says United States Will Provide
Safe Delivery of All War Sup
plies to Great Britain

Proclaiming the existence of an
unlimited national emergency"
President Roosevelt said Tuesday
night that the United States would
do whatever may be necessary to as
sure the safe delivery of war supplies
in England, and served notice that it
would actively resist" any effort by
Hitler to gain control of the seas.
Bluntly, he accused the fuehrer and
his Axis partners of an intent to con-
quer the world and strange the
United States of America" asserted
the war was coming very close to
home" and warned that eve will not
hesitate to use our armed forces to
repel attack"
These things, together with reasser-
ton of ''the ancient doctrine of free
dom of the seas" were included in
his address delivered before the entire
diplomatic corps of the Western
Hemisphere.
In a proclamation the President de-
clared a state of full emergency. This
requires that the nations military,
naval, air and civilian defenses be put
on the basis of readiness to repel any
and all acts or threats of aggression
directed toward any part Of the West
ern Hemisphere.
He called upon manufacturers to
give precedence to products that the
nation needs and upon all our loyal
workmen as well as employers to
merge their lesser differences in the
large effort to insure the survival of
the only kind of government which
recognizes the rights of labor or of
capital"
"A nationwide machinery for con-
citation and mediation of industrial
disputes has been set up. That ma
chinery must be used promptly and
without stoppage of work" he said.
collective bargaining will be re-
tanned but the American people eX-
pect that impartial recommendations
of our government services will be
followed both by capital and by labor.
He pointed out that Great Britain
stood between the Axis in their pur-
pose to dominate the world and con-
troll the seas, but that the Germans
were sinking merchant ships at rate
more than double the combined ability
of British and American shipyards to
replace them. He pledged "all addi-
tional measures necessary to deliver
the goods"
The deadly facts Of war compel ma
tions, for simple self-preservation, to
make stern choices, he said. at does
not make sense, for instance, to say,
4 believe in the defense of all the
Western Hemisphere, and in the next
breath to say, 4 will not fight for
that defense until the enemy has
landed on our shores
Mr.. Roosevelt enunciated two
articles on national policy. First, we
shall actively resist wherever neces-
sary, and with all our resources,
every attempt by Hitler to extend his
Nazi domination to the Western
Hemisphere, or to threaten it. We
shall actively resist his every attempt
to gain control of the seas. We insist
upon the vital importance of keeping
Hitlerism away from any point in the
world which could be used and would
be used as a base of attack against
the Americas.
Second, from the point of view Of
strict naval and military necessity,
we shall give every possible assist
ance to Britain and to all, who, with
Britain, are resisting Hitlerism or its
equivalent with force of arms. Our
patrols are helping now to insure de-
livery of the needed supplies to
Britain. All additional measures
necessary to deliver the goods will be
taken"
The President called upon all loyal
citizens to place the nations needs
first in mind and action to the end
that we may mobilize and have
ready for instant defensive use all Of
the physical powers, all of the moral
strength and all of the material re-
sources of this nation. Indifference on