Evening star., 1942-10-04
Halifax Says Nazis
Face Choice Of Drive
Or Production in 1943
Message From Roosevelt
Read at Foreign Policy
Association Meeting
By the Associated Press.


By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. 3.-Germany
will have to choose between a great
military campaign in the spring OF
1943 and maintenance of her mill
tary production level, Viscount Hall
fax, British Ambassador to the
United States, asserted today.
4 Citing manpower shortage as a
Factor which will contribute to Ger
bnan defeat, Lord Halifax told about
R,ooo members of the Foreign Policy
Association:
| 1--WE can feel sure that our joint
production will still be rising when
theirs Germany begins to sag.
lThe air force has been steadily
hammering at the Ruhr. and at i'm
Portant industrial centers like Co.
Eogne and Dusseldorf. But apart
from these bombing raids, and what
must be their effect on output, there
ps good reason to think that in order
TO find men for their Russian cam
paigns, the Germans have had to
comb their factories and farms.
Start Lost by Nazis.
This means that if Germany has
sto face-as she will have to face
t,another campaign in the spring of
| 1943, she can hardly maintain both
her military and industrial efforts
lat their present pitch, but will have
Eto choose between them. The race
sts still on. and the finish is long
Fway off, but Germany has lost her
tstart."
T A letter from President Roose-
fvelt was read by Gen. Frank R. Nc
fCoy, president of the Foreign Policy
sAssociation. Mr.. Roosevelt said:
; Last year, in a message to the
Sforum OF the Foreign Policy Asso-
kciatlon, I said that, although we
Ewere not then actively at war, ours
swas as great responsibility for de-
stroying the totalitarian menace to
everything for which we stand as
ssthat Of the people who were fight
Eing against it. 1 expressed my con-
eviction that our country would not
@shrink from that responsibility. nor
quail before whatever sacrifices it
might demand.
~ THE crucial test came only few
Eweeks later when the foes of human
Mfreedom struck at us and plunged
Sour country into war.
> Faith Vindicated.
" During the months that have
Iaelapsed, my faith in my countrymen
Eand their. faith in themselves have
8heen more than vindicated before
"the Axis powers treacherously at
tackled us, they sought strenuously
to lntlmidate us into inaction as
®ards our most sacred duty to
S,ourselves-defense against the threat
, which was so clearly and so inexor-
ably moving in our direction.
Far from being intimidated, our
nation has risen in superb unity
OF purpose and sacrificial spirit of
devotion that will never abate until
victory is ours-final, unmistakable,
and complete.
g I'm war as in peace, our foreign
Spolicy is the instrument through
(which we establish our relationships
with the world of which we are a
spart. Today it is focused solely
and lneyorably upon finding the
most effective means of defeating
{pur enemies as speedily as possible
Ean order that our right to live as free
men may no longer be menaced.
With victory secured, our foreign
policy must be focused upon finding
the most effective means of en-
riching our lives as free men
spiritually, morally, and materially
s through all the manifold ways in
I which international relationships
contribute TO this end.
In war as in peace, our foreign
/ policy can be only what we as a
4 people want it to be. We know
L how, better than we ever knew be-
Z fore, that free men can survive as
4 free men only when they make their
\ public decisions on the basis of free
y discussion, informed by an adequate
understanding of the facts and the
4 issues involved, and founded upon
I a sense Of individual and national
Z responsibility. This kind of free
l discussion is needed now. It will be
1 needed as never before in the hard
I years ahead"
Elmer Davis Speaks.
Lord Halifaxs talk followed one
\ by Elmer Davis, director of the Of
Z fee of War Information, who envis-
\ ioned postwar world in which
the United States would need not
only some form of international or
ganization for her own security and
for that of smaller States, but a
Z large military organization for an
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