Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-01-06

and Nazis a little idea Of Just what
they accomplished in the attack on
Pearl Harbor.
Our task Is harbour task is un-
precedented-and the time Is short
We must strain every existing
armament. producing facility to the
utmost. We must convert every
available plant and tool to wal
production. That goes all the way
from the greatest plants to the
smallest-from the huge automobile
industry to the village machine shop
Production for war Is based on
men and women-the human hands
and brains which collectively We
call labor. Our workers stand ready
to work long hours; to turn out
more In days work: to keep the
wheels turning and the fires burn
ing "a hours q day. and seven days
q week. They realize well that on
the speed and efficiency Of their
work depend the lives Of their sons
and their brothers on the fighting
fronts.
Production for war Is based on
metals and raw materials-steel,
copper, rubber. aluminium, zinc. tin.
Greater and greater quantities Of
them will have to be diverted to war
purposes. Civilian use Of them will
have to be cut further and still fur
ther-and. in many cases, completely
eliminated.
So, 00o, eoo, 900 War Budget
More Than Half National Income.
War costs money. So far. We have
hardly even begun to pay for it. We
have devoted only Is per cent of our
national income to national defense.
As will appear in my budget message
tomorrow, our war program for the
coming fiscal year will cost $50, 900, :
DOC, 900, or In other words. more than
one-half Of the estimated annual
national income. This means taxes
and bonds and bonds and taxes.
1t means cutting luxuries and other
non-esSentials. In q word. 1t means
an "all-out" war by individual effort
and family effort in a united coun-
try.
Only this about scale Of produc-
ton will hasten the ultimate about
victory. Speed will count. Lost
ground can always be regained-
lost time never. Speed will save
lives: speed will save this Nation
which is in peril: speed will save our
freedom and civilization-and slow
ness has never been an American
characteristic.
As the United States goes into its
full stride. we must always be on
guard against misconceptions which
will arise naturally or which will be
planted among us by our enemies.
Nation Must De on Guard
Against Csmplacency.
We must guard against COM
placency. We must not underrate
the enemy. He is powerful and
cunning-and cruel and ruthless.
He will stop at nothing which gives
him chance to kill and to destroy.
He has trained his people to believe
that their highest perfection is
achieved by waging war. For many
years he has prepared for this very
conflict-planning. plotting, train
ing, arming. fighting. We have al
ready tasted defeat. We may suffer
further setbacks. We must face the
fact OF a hard war, a long war, a
bloody war, q costly war
We must, on the other hand.
guard against defeatism. That has
been one Of the chief weapons of
Hitler's propaganda machine-used
time and again with deadly results.
1t will not be used successfully on
the American people.
We must guard against divisions
among ourselves and among all the
other united nations. We must be
particularly vigilant against racial
discrimination in any Of its ugly
forms. Hitler will try again to
breed mistrust and suspicion be-
tween one individual and another.
one group and another. one face
and another, one government and
another. He will try to use the same
technique OF falsehood and rumor-
mongering with which he divided
France from Britain. He is trying to
do this with us even now. But he
will find q unity of will and pur-
pose against him, which will per-
severe until the destruction of all
his black designs upon the freedom
and safety of the people Of the world.
War Cannot Be Waged
In = Defensive Spirit.
We cannot wage this war in 4 de-
fensive spirit. As our power and
our resources are fully modified
we shall carry the attack against
the enemy-we shall hit him and
hit him again wherever and when
ever we can reach him.
We must keep him far from our
shores, for we intend to bring this
battle to him on his own home
grounds.
American armed forces must be
used at any place in all the world
where it seems advisable to engage
the forces of the enemy. In some
cases these operations will be de-
fensive, in order to protect key DO
sitions. In other cases, these oper-
atoms will be offensive, in order to
strike at the common enemy, with
view to his complete enlightenment
and eventual total defeat.
American armed forces will oper-
ate at many points in the Far East.
American armed forces will be on
all the oceans-helping to guard the
essential communications which are
vital to the United Nations.
American land and air and sea
forces will take stations in the Brit
ish Isles-which constitute an es-
sential fortress in this world strus-
gle.
American armed forces will help
to protect this hemisphere-and also
bases outside this hemisphere. which
could be used for an attack on the
Americas.
Heroic Wake Island Defense
An Inspiration to All Of Us.
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