The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-06
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ontinued from Pare One

That was the purpose, he ex-
planned, Of conferences which
have been held during the past
two weeks here, in Moscow and
in Chungking and was the pri-
mary objective of the declara-
ton of solidarity signed in
Washington at the start Of the
new year by 26 nations united
against the Axis forces.
1.-THE militarists in Berlin and
Tokyo started this war;" tn e
chief executive charged sternly.
But the massed, angered forces
Of common humanity will fin
ish it,"
The war cannot be waged in
a defensive spirit, the president
declared, adding:
"As our power and our re-
sources are fully modified, we
shall carry the attack against
the enemy-we shall hit him
and hit him again wherever
and whenever we can reach him.
1--WE must keep him far from
our shores, for we intend to
bring this battle to him on his
own home grounds"
WIDE THEATER
Wherever in the world i!
seems advisable to engage en-.
envy forces, Mr.. Roosevelt said,
American armed forces must be
used. The operations in some
cases are to be defensive and in
others offensive with a view to
complete enc ir c m e mt and
eventual total defeat" of the
foes.
american armed forces will
operate at many points IN the
Far East" the chief executive
said.
American armed forces will
be on all the oceans-helping to
guard the essential commurica.
tons which are vital to tn e
United States nations.
american land and air and
sea forces will take stations in
the British Isles, which con-
stitutc an essential fortress in
this world struggle.
american armed forces will
help to protect this hemisphere
and also bases outside h S
hemisphere, which could be
used for an attack on the Am
ericas."
SKETCHES OPERATIONS
In these terse paragraphs, the
President gave a sketchy pic
ture of possible operations of
another American expeditionary
force and of possible occupation
of strategic bases across the
seas which otherwise might be
used as jumping off places for
onslaughts on this hemisphere.
Any long range bombing raids
on America by Suicide" squad
rons of enemy planes from
Europe or Asia, Mr.. Roosevelt
predicted, will be attempted
only in the hope of terrorizing
our people and disrupting our
morale. But our people arc
not afraid of that, he remarked.
I'VE know that we may have
to pay a heavy price for free
DOM" he continued. eve will
pay this price with a will.
Whatever the price, it is a thou
sand times worth it.
"No matter what our enemies,
in their desperation may at
tempt to do to us-we will say,
as the people of London have
said, We can take it, And
what's more, we can give it
back-and we will give 1t back
with compound interest.
CHALLENGE TO ALL
"When our cnemincs chal-
lenged our country to stand up
and fight, they challenged each
and every one of us. And each
and every one of us had accept
ed the challenge-for himself
and for the nation"
The message was the annual
one to Congress on the state OF
the Union. At the very outset,
the president said he was proud
to report that the spirit of the
American people was never
higher. that the union was never
more closely knit together, that
the country was never more
deeply determined to face the
solemn tasks before it.
He outlined the steps leading
up to Americas entry into the
new world conflict and declared
that our own detectives were
clear: smashing the militarism
imposed by war lords on their
enslaved peoples, liberating sub
jugated nations, establishing and
securing freedom of speech,
freedom of religions, freedom
from want and freedom fear ev-
crywhere in the world.
1--WE shall not stop short OF
these objectivesnor shall we be
satisfied merely to gain them
and then call il a day." Mr..