The Sauk Centre herald., 1941-11-27


thousand tanks, 20 Thousand
planes, fighting on her own sol
behind her own Notifications, with
her transportation wholly over lant
and on inside lines.
Sending an army from Americs
to the continent of Europe itself
today would not be like that OF
the first World war. Then we
transported our men safely te
France in installments over a year
This time we would have to land
overpowering forces all at once.
For us to do that we would need
prepare 5 to million American
boys in addition to the British. II
would take us five years to pre-,
pare the men and equipment. II
would take more than five years tc
build the shipping to transport
them.
No military expert believes we
could land such an army in Europe
even If we got overseas.
| To land a force Of a few hundred
thousand Americans in Persia or
Africa or other places would simply
invite another Dunkerque. For the
Germans with their inside land
lines could concentrate against
them.
We should not forget the futility
of the British landings in Belgium
Norway and Greece. In any event
no force in the suburbs of Europe
could overcome Hitler's armies
Such a force would automatically
be an emotional decoy to larger
armies.
The British today have block
ade of Germany as effective as ii
can be made. The addition of the
American navy does not overcome
Hitler by sea power.
The increase Of our supply Of air.
planes to the British helps defend
England. But the bombing of in
dustrial Germany is not likely to
be a decisive factor in this war.
Thus from the land, the sea and
the air there is every indication
that the war in Europe is a mill
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future.
And every practical reason OF
this situation points to the futile
waste Of American life by sending
armies overseas.
There is limit to the military
productivity Of even America. Our
own defenses are as yet unpre-
pared.
Production on our already gigan-
tic program is only just getting
under way We have not yet felt
it's economic effects.
The spirals Of shortages in raw
materials. unemployment in civil
ian industries, increased cost of liv-
ing and initiation are just begin
ming. They are ALREADY a warning
We are not in a position to add
the weight of expeditionary armies
to this burden.
One consequence of our going to
Africa or Europe would be that
out of justice to our own fightine
sons we will be forced to cut down
our supplies and ships to Britain
And what becomes of American
freedom while we are fighting a
long war overseas?
Even TODAY our country is justly
alarmed that freedom is slippine
in America. Truly under intoler.
ance we are slipping in the free
dom of expression. Certainly we
are slipping in the freedom from
fear.
Unquestionably with dislocations
Of employment and rising costs OF
living we are slipping in freedom
from want.
The American system is built
not on four freedoms but on five.
And absolutely we are slipping
from the fifth freedom, that is, the
freedom of men to choose their
own Jobs, the freedom to save for
ones children and old age, the
freedom of enterprise.
The four freedoms have never
survived in all history without eco
nomic freedom. The four freedoms
were born and live by economic
freedom.
Inevitably America could carry
such an economic burden of man
power and industry as required by
expeditionary forces only by repres-
sions which duplicate the repres-
sions of Nazism itself.
Whether we go to about war
or not, the volume Of our present
commitments requires the econom-
ic freedom must in some degree go
into eclipse.
The Dies committee has proved
that there are thousands OF men
employed in our government who