Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-28

III our OOVeTnmenu-alt helr Qe-
featist forebodings that Britain
and democracy are already beat
en-all their selfish promises that
we can do business" with Hitler
all Of these are but echoes of
the words that have been poured
out from the Axis bureaus of
propaganda. Those same words
have been used before in other
countries-to scare them, to di-
vide them, to soften them up.
Invariably, those same words
have formed the advance guard
of physica, attack.
Your Government has the right
to expect of all citizens that they
take loyal part in the common
work of our common defense
take loyal part from this moment
forward.
l have recently set up the ma
chinery for civilian defense. It
will rapidly organize, locality by
locality. 1t will depend on the
organized effort of men and wom-
en- everywhere. All will have re-
spOnsibilities to fulfill.
Defense today means more
than merely fighting. 1t means
morale. civilian as we'll as mill
tary; 1t means using every avail
able resource; it means charging
every useful plant. 1t means the
use OF a greater American COM
mon sense in discarding rumor
and distorted statement. 1t means
recognizing, for what they are,
racketeers and fifth colup1nists.
who are the incendiary bombs of
the moment.
All of us know that we have
made very great social progress
in recent years. We propose to
maintain that progress and
strengthen it. When the Nation
is threatened from without, how
ever, as it is today, the actual
production and transportation Of
the machinery of defense must
not be interrupted by disputes
between capital and capital,
labor and labor, or capital and
labor. The future of all free en-
terprise-of capital and labor
alike-it at stake.
No Time for Capital
To Make Excess Profits.
This is no time for capital to
make, or be allowed to retain ex-
cess profits. Articles of defense
must have undisputed right of
way in every industrial plant in
the country
A Nation wide machinery for
Cancellation and meditation Of in
dustrial disputes has been set up.
That machinery must be used
promptly-and without stoppage
of work. Collective bargaining
will be retained, but the Ameri-
can people expect that impartial
recommendations of our Govern
ment services will be followed
both by capital and by labor.
The overwhelming majority of
our citizens expect their Govern
ment to see that the tools of de-
Tense are built: and for the very
purpose of preserving the demo-
cratic safeguards of both labor
and management, this Govern
ment is determined to use all of
its power to express the will of its
people, and to prevent interior
ence with the production of ma
terials essential to our Nations
security.
Today the whole world is di-
vided between human slavery and
human freedom-between pagan
brutality and the Christian ideal.
We choose human freedom
which Is the Christian ideal.
No one of us can waver for
moment in his courage or his
faith.
We will not accept a Hitler
dominated world. And we will
not accept a world. like the post
war world of the 1920s, in which
the seeds of Hitlerism can again
be planted and allowed to grow.
We will accept only world
consecrated to freedom of speech
and expression-freedom of every
person to worship God in his own
way-freedom from want-and
freedom from terrorism.
Is such a world impossible of
attainment?
Magma Carta, the Declaration
of Independence, the Constitu-
ton of the United States, the
Emancipation Proclamation and
every other milestone in human
progress-all were ideals which