The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-28
Speech Drew Close To An "Undeclared War"
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 lo give united and loyal support for our "common defense"
 And the sun rose today on a steadily expanding Atlantic partol, steadily reinforced Atlantic fleet and e tremendously extended vest ern hemisphere.
 Mfr. Roosevelt's address pushed hemispherical outposts 1000 miles or SO to the Portuguese Cape Verde Islands off the coast of Africa and Threatened to repel Nazi encroach- rnents there or on the Azores, Greenland, Iceland or any Islands of the Atlantic.
 Capital, Labor Curbed
 He virtually forbade further stop pages of national defense produc- ton and said capital and labor must adjust their disputes without lock- outs or strikes on the basis of fed- eral concilIation or mediation. He pledged the government to use 'all of It's powers" to prevent interfer- ence with production for national defense.
 His prohibition of defense stop- pages was directed not only at dis- putes between employees and employ CTS but to those between opposing units of capital and to jurisdictional or other disputse between compet- ing labor organizations It was the most direct warning ever uttered from the White House that the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Orgarl- zations must learn to live together in peace.
 The president re-asserted the "an- cient American doctrine of the freedom of the seas, although 1t is materially restricted at the moment by the neutrality act which forbids our commerce with belligerent states. ...0
 He countered that program with q policy of active resistance in which he pledged the United States to "all further methods or combi- nations of methods" necessary to deliver munitions to Great Britain. N National Policy Explained
 "Our national policy today, there- fore" he said, "is this:
 "First, we shall actively resist wherever necessary, and with all our resources, every attempt by Hitler to extend his Nazi domination to the western hemisphere, or to threaten 1t. We shall actively resist his every attemt 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 0 base of attack against the Americas.
 "Second, from the point of view of strict naval and military neces- slty, we shall give every possible as- sistance to Britain and to oil who, with Britain, are resisting Hitler asm or its equivalent with force of arms. Our patrols rae helpng now to insure delivery of the needed supplies to Britain. All additional measures necessary to deliver the goods will be taken. Any mad all further methods or combinations Of methods, which can or should be utilizDd, are being devised by our military mad naval technicians, who, with me, will work out and put !n- to effect such new and additional safeguards as may be needed"
 While House Secretary stephen T. Early explained that this did not mean the administration would adopt the obsolete convoy system" but that there would be better and larger Atlantic patrol. When Mir. Roosevelt plunked for freedom of the seas he answered Nazi Grand Admiral Erich Raeder and German spokeSmen who within 48 hours ,challneged the Atlantic partol ad threatened that their naval forces would not submit to 1t.
 Goes Much Further
 MT. Roosevelt went further. He said Iceland and Greenland were stepping stones to Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and our own indus trial areas of the north, the east and the midwest. He said Nazl control or occupation of the Azores, the Cape Verde Islands or any islands in the Atlantic would jeopar- dize our safety. He noted the re- cent presence of the late German battleship Bismarkc in the vicinity of Greenland and said that attacks on shipping off the shores we are protecting presnt an actual military danger to the United States.
 Therefore, Mir. Roosevelt said we would fight to prevent Axis control or occupation of those Atlantic Islands. The safety belt which he drew around the western hemisphere at distance of some 200 or 300 miles of our shores when Europes war began was extended with those words to encircle the Cape Verdes which lie 1856 miles from Sandy Hook. but some l,700 miles from Brazil.
 F0reSees Trouble
 The president foresees trouble on the high seas.
 .t "Our Bunker Hill of tomorrow, he said, may be several thousand miles from Boston, Massachusetts" E"
 
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