Evening star., 1942-09-03
The tert OF President Roose-
Delts address to the International
Student Assembly today tolloUs.

Student Assembly today tollotUs.:
1t may interest the members of
this Assembly Of the international
Student Service that, during the
past week, the Axis radio has given
unusual comment to your sessions
and to the speech which you are
hearing at this moment.
Our listening stations have picked
up an increasing volume of Axis
broadcasts, including controlled sta
tions in France, Hungary, the Meth
erlands and elsewhere, referring to
this meeting of the younger gener-
alton from all the United Nations in
terms of growing hate and, of
course, complete falsehood. Our
listening stations report that they
expect that at this moment the air
in all Axis dominated nations will
be thoroughly jammed -- blacked
out-in order that no sound of what
I am saying, either in English or in
translation, will be heard by any
rsst1ess yotng people MO are undef
HNfer'S hecl@ ~ Sss
The Nazi radio in Paris. for ex-
ample. tells the youth of France
that Roosevelt was solely responsible
for the defeat of France: that Roose-
velts is NOT qualified Ne address d
message fassiale youth OF the werld
because America is Nation that
has done nothing for youth.
Protested in Advance.
Berlin reports that four French
youth organizations have protested
in advance against this speech, since
Roosevelt must be blamed for the
Geath of more than 100000 young
Frenchmen. incidentally, it would
be interesting to know how many
real Frenchmen there are in these
So-called French Youth Organiza-
| tions.
A radio in Toxic says that I am
admitting to you at this moment
that my people are decadent-weak-
lings-playboys-spoiled by jazz
music and Hollywood pictures. OF
! course, this broadcast did not orig
mate from any of the japanese who
bumped into our playboys in the
Southwest Pacific.
The reason for this hysterically
defensive attitude toward this gath
ering is not hard to find. For many
years they have made their hypo-
critical appeal to youth-they have
tried, with all their blatant publicity
to represent themselves as the cham.
pions of youth.
Nazis, the Fascists and the mill.
tarists of Japan have nothing K
offer to youth-eXcept death.
On the other hand, the cause OF
the United Nations is the cause o.
youth itself. 1t is the hope of tht
new generation-and the generation!
that are to come-hope for new
life that can be lived in freedom
and justice and decency.
Backed Up by Guns.
The fact is becoming clearer ever!
!; day to the young people of Europe
: where the Nazis are trying to Great,
youth organizations built on the Naz
pattern. 1t is not a pattern devised
by youth for youth. 1t is a patterr
devised by Hitler and imposed upol
youth by a form of mental forcibl,
feeding-a diet of false facts, distor
, tions and prohibitions-all backed
up by the guns of the Gestapo.
If you have any doubt as to wha
| the decent youth Of Europe thinl
, about the false promises the Axi
masters make to the young peo
, pile of the world, look to the brav
{ young men of France and all tn
occupied countries who prefer t.
face the firing squads rather than
, lifetime of slavery and degradation
f under Hitler.
+ In such unfortunate countries q
{ Finland. Hungary. Bulgaria, Ru
/ mania and Italy, whose government
, have found it necessary to submit t
Hitler and do his bidding. the Quis
nngs have organized youth move
y ments, too-but these are onl
: movements of youth by the tens c
thousands to the slaughter of tn
eastern front, where the Nazis nee
cannon-fodder in their desperate at
tempts TO shatter the stalwart Rus
sian Army.
f In China, heroic youth has stoo
a steadfast for more than five veal
against all of Japan's Attempts
Z seduce and disarm them with sue
+ transparent lies as the promise {
" Asia for the Asiatics." For tn