Evening star., 1941-05-06

velopment, and we want constantly
to improve our own position in life.
Multiplied and magnifled 100, 0,000,-
600 times this is also our Nations
ambition. As a Nation we want to
| have peaceful and mutually profit
| able relations with other nations; so
that we may 60 on adding to our
vast wealth OF roads and schools, i'm
proving the goods we make and the
goods we consume, raising our stand
ards of living and increasing the
benefits enjoyed by all of us who
live in this country.
This we are all resolved and de-
termined to do.
Today we have rolled up CUR
sleeves and gone to work to insure
this future. Our factories are hum
ming, making our military tablish.
ment strong-so that we may be inn
pregnable against any attack by
force. Scores of our cargo vessels
are being gathered to form a bridge
OF ships whereby supplies will be
carried to our friends-the enemies
Of force across the Atlantic. Our
young men are in training camps,
learning the discipline and tech
niques Of the modern Army.
Willing to Shoulder Burden.
We are keenly conscious now that
in addition to our bountiful privi-
leges, we have duties as well. For
a long time, the people have been
insistent in their desire to shoulder
responsibility by paying higher
taxes for defense. Eighteen months
ago, the opinion polls showed that
6 out of every 10 of us wanted to
shoulder this responsibility. A new.
sitter revenue act was passed; but
still more of us than before wanted
to put our dollars to work to expand
our Army, Navy and air forces. Our
leaders in Washington are now dis
cussing new tax schedules to meet
this want.
Last week the Treasury Depart
ment placed defense savings stamps
and Defense savings bonds on sale in
post ofIices and banks near you. You
already have heard about the nature
and purpose of these stamps and
bonds. They offer every citizen an
opportunity to lend his money VOL
unfairly to the Government. for his
own profit and to help achieve the
objectives that he wants to see
achieved.
Our desires for the furure and
our impulse to protect that future
now did not originate with us. They
are common to all men. Our dreams
for security, equality and the right
to stand on our own feet were borne
to this Nation on great streams of
immigrant peoples. They brought
these human yearnings from Sussex
and Clydeside, from the farms of
France, from Saxony and Bavaria,
from Sicily and Lombardy, from the
green hills of Ireland, and from
Galicia in Poland.
A Nation for Freedom.
We are not a Nation because we
speak one language; we speak many
tongues. We are not a Nation be-
cause we worship in the same way:
we belong to more than 200 religious
denominations. We are a Nation
because We are men and women OF
one idea: The idea of the greatest
freedom to each individual, so long
as that freedom does not harm our
society.
Refugees from totalitarian coun-
tries are amazed at what our equal
itarian society has achieved. Some
of them have spent hours just pho
tographing the hundreds and hum
dreds of automobiles which stand at
the curbs of every American city.
To us, this is commonplace; to them,
it is a miracle They are amazed at
our gigantic riches. They are
amazed at our spirit OF easy COM
radeship-between the diner at a
restaurant and the waiter. between
the taxi driver and his fare. All
men have had the same dreams as
these, but in our country. they look
more real, and we shall 60 on
making them more and more true.
Around US today, the world Is a
strange and almost unrecognizable
place. An invader is in uneasy
possession Of one-third Of China
an area AS big as our whole Nation
east of the Mississippi. Another
invader is astride almost the whole
continent of Europe. A crooked
cross, emblem of that invader.
waves in Norway at the continents
northern tip, and in Greece, nearly
o mn y,oi1oe Soy,thUarH
Bent on Vast Monopoly.
The war machine Of this invader
is being fueled by the enforced
labor and the confiscated money
and resources Of Czechs, Poles,
Dutchmen, Belgians, Frenchmen
and other subject peoples. After
the war, the carriers Of the crooked
cross intend that their industrial
machinery will be operated the
same way. In their world OF to-
morrow, they intend to be a master
race. controlling the life Of whole
continents. In their world OF the
future, they intend to control by
force the biggest monopoly OF labor,
Of business and of ideas in history.
We can see now some of the fatal
mistakes that were made in Europe.
One by one, the countries of Europe
were divided, one from the others.
Too late and too few, they began to
feel concern, one for the others.
One by one, they were swallowed.
AS with countries, so it was with
individuals. In France, there was
thought for present costs rather
than future gains. In the last year
but one before the outbreak of war,
France, on the edge of Europe's
cauldron, spent less for armaments