The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-28

 day address at Washington last evening told the world that the shooting" has started and the United States is ready to meet the challenge. The address Is regarded as one of the most belligerent talks ever made by the President. The text is as follows:
 Five months ago tonight l pro- claimed to the American people the existence of a state of unlim- tied emergency. Since then much has happened. Our army and navy are temporarily in Iceland in the defense of the Western Hemisphere.
 Hitler has attacked shipping in treas close to the Americas throughout the Atlantic.
 Many American owned mer- chant ships have been sunk on the high seas. One American oe- stroyer was attacked on Sept, 4. Another destroyer was attacked and hit on Oct. r. Eleven brave and loyal men of our navy were killed by the Nazis.
 We have wished to avoid shoot ing. But the shooting has started. And history has recorded who fired the first shot. In the long run, however, all that will mat ter is who fired the last shot.
 America has been attacked. The U. S. s. Kearny is not just navy ship. She belongs to every man, woman and child in this nation.
 Illinois, Alabama, California, North Carolina, Ohio, Louisiana, Texas, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Ar kansas New York, Virginia those are the home states of the honored dead and wounded of the Kearny. Hitlers torpedo was di- rected at every American, whether he lives on our sea- coasts or in the innermost part Sf the nation, far from the seas and far from the guns and tanks of the marching hordes of would be conquerors of the world.
 Purpose of Attack
 The purpose of Hitler's attack was to frighten the American people off the high seas--to force us to make a trembling retreat. This is not the first time he has misjudged the American spirit. That spirit is now aroused.
 If our national policy were to be dominated by the fear of shooting, then all of our ships and those of our sister republics would have to be tied up in home harbors. Our navy would have to remain respectfully, abjectly, behind any line which Hitler might decree or any ocean as his own dictated version of his own war zone.
 Naturally we reject that absurd and insulting suggestion. We re- ject 1t because of our own self interest, our own self-reSpect and our own good faith. Freedom of the seas is now, as 1t has always been, the fundamental policy of this government.
 Hitler has often protested that his plans for conquesion do not extend across the Atlantic ocean. His submarines and raiders prove otherwise. So does the entire de- sign of his new world order.
 For example, have in my pos- session a secret map made in Germany py Hitler's government, by the planners of the new world order. It is a map of South Amer ica and a part of Central Amer ica, as Hitler proposes to reor- ganize 1t.
 Today in this area there are fourteen separate countries. The geographical experts of Berlin, however, have ruthlessly obliter- ated all existing boundary lines, and have divided South America into five vassal states, bringing the whole continent under their domination. And they have also so arranged 1t that the territory of one of these new puppet states includes the Republic of Panama and our great life line, the Pana- ma Canal.
 Your government has in its pos- session another document made in Germany by Hitler's govern ment. It Is detailed plan, which for obvious reasons, the Nazis did not wish to publlcize just yet, but which they are ready to impose on a dominated world, If Hitler wins.
 'Mein Kampf"
 It is a plan to abolish all exist ing religions, Protestant, Catholic, Mohammedan. Hindu. Buddhist and Jewish alike. The property of all churches will be seized by the Reich. The cross and all oth- CT symbols of religion are to be forbidden. The clergy are to be forever silenced under penalty of the concentration camps. where even now so many fearless men are being tortured because they placed God above Hitler.
 Tn the place of the churches of our civilization, there is to be set up an international Nazi church, a church which will be served by orators sent out by the Nazi Government. In the place of the Bible, the words of 'Mein Kampf" will be imposed and en- forced as Holy Writ. And in place of the cross of Christ will be put two symbols, the swastika and the naked sword.
 The god of blood and iron will take the place of the god of love and mercy.
 These grim truths which I have told you of the present and fu- ture plans of Hitlerism will of course be hotly denied tomorrow in the controlled press and radio of the Axis powers. And some Americans will continue to insist that Hitler's plans need not wor- ry us, and that we should not concern ourselves with anything that goes on beyond rifle shot of our own shores.