The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-18
TURNING POINT IN-WAR HERE
President Tells Nation Tide Is Turned; Warns, About
 ''ExaltatiOn"

Washington, November i8. = (UP) - President Roosevelt told the country last night that the turning point of the war has at last been reached, but warned against "exul- tation".
 There is no time now for any thing but fighting and working to win," he told the New York Herald Tribune Forum in New York and the country by radio.
 Speaking to the forum in New York via radio from the White House, Mir. Roosevelt said, We have had an uphill fight, and it will con- tinue to be uphill, all the way there can be no coasting to victory"
 He particularly cautioned the country against needing war dis cussions of the uninformed, not calling names but blistering war critics who "are actuated by politi- cal motives"
 Nearly everybody understands" he said, that the government in time of war cannot always give spot news to the people" with the result that the relatively few" who do have the facts can discuss them pub licly only in general terms lest they "help tl,e people who are trying to destroy us."
 Tn reverse" he added, "those who are not in possession of all the news must almost inevitably speak from guesswork based on information of doubtful accuracy. They do not know the facts and, therefore. the value of their statements becomes greatly reduced. Nor must we, in the actual progress of the war, lend ears to the clamor of politics or to criticism from those who, as we know in our hearts, are actuated by political motives"
 Reporting that he had made "a constant effort To keep pcli- tics out of the fighting of this war" the President expressed confidence in the ability of most Americans to discriminate between informed dis musson and verbal thrusts in the dark"
 MT. Roosevelt admitted having made mistake in yielding to a clamor against suppression of the news from the fighting fronts"
 The time when his foot slipped once," the President related, was 10 days before the November election when an American aircraft carrier was sunk by American forces in the Pacific when 1t was apparent she could not make port as result of enemy Inflicted damage. To avoid charges that the news was sup pressed until after the elections, the President said he permitted release of the news which resulted shortly in protests from admirals in the Pacific.
 The admirals contended, the Pres ident said, that "in all probability the Japanese navy had no informa- ton of the sinking and that hand ing them the information on a silver platter = although We were careful not to reveal the name of this carrier - gave them a military advantage which they would other wise not have had"
 MT. Roosevelt warned against loose talk - loose talk costs lives he said, quoting the posters. Those posters do rot exaggerate, he added.
 Loose talk delays victory" he said. Loose talk is the damp that gets into the powder. We prefer to keep our powder dry
 He said that tine reason political criticism has done less harm in the United States than might have been expected was the good old horse sense of the American people,
 T know from a somewhat long experience in wartime as well as peacetime that the over- whelning majority of our people arow how to discriminate in their reading and in their radio listening between informed discussion and verbal thrustS in the dark