The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-08
Monagan Backs FDR
 In Au-Out War Effort
Democratic Candidate Sees But One Issue in Cam.
 paign; Heard Last Night in Radio Address

Attorney John s. Monagan off, cially launched his campaign fol election to Congress in the Fifth District last night in 15-minute radio talk heard over VERY. The Democratic candidate is whole 'leartedly behind President Roose- elt's demand for an all-out war on he Axis powers and reiterated his intention of supporting such a pol cy if sent to Washington.
 His speech in full follows:
 The course of this Congressional campaign has been sharply altered by the war. If it had not been for Pearl Harbor there would have been a discussion of many social and economic domestic problems. The Roosevelt-H foreign policy would have been subjected to crit icism by the isloationists. With the outbreak of war, however, these issues have been side-tracked. A Congressional candidate can now have only one platform: to support our Commander-in-C Chief, Presi- dent Roosevelt, until the war has been won. make this pledge gladly because I know that we can defeat the enemy only through a united support of our President.
 Issues might arise on which I might find myself differing with the administration; this is to be expected, and I am certain that the people of this district do not want rubber stamp" representa- ton. Nevertheless, on the broad course which has been charted there can be no substantial dis agreement if our fight is to be successful.
 Blow United Us
 Now this nation is unified, but it has taken mortal blow in the Pacific to bring us to our senses. It should be remembered, however, that President Roosevelt has been predicting our present difficulties for years. It was in 1886 that he called for quarantine of the aggressor nations;;" you will re- member that his proposal was greeted with ridicule and abuse. But there is one and only one req son why we are tdoay in any way prepared to wage a successful war; it is because Franklin Roose- welt waged a continual, dogged fight against the ineytia and blindness of the American peo- pie. By the Lend-Lease Bill he kept supplies flowing to China and to .Ingland: he sent the fifty destroyers to Britain; he increased the Navy; he secured island bases to prote t the Atlantic approach es to the United States. In short, he has :hLwn a perfect grasp of the foreign situation. He has recognized the menace of the totIlitarians and he alone is re- sponsible for the existence of the strong allies who now are giving US comfort and assistance.
 The country as whole Is ac- knowledging his leadership late in the game but the important fact is that 1t is being acknowledged and with unanimity that has never before existed. We give him our confidence and our loyalty and we pledge the Whole-hearted CO., operation of every element in the nation.
 Cooperation Needed
 This cooperation is necessary to win the war and victory is essen- tial. We all recognize this: if we go down to defeat now, the bases of our democracy will be destroyed. The people of this country now realize that they have a very def mite stake in this war and, as 8 result, they enter the fight with a spirit and determination that cannot be matched in the subju- gated countries. They know that If we are defeated the whole world will be ordered according to the Nazi pattern. All the hard fight up to comparative social maturity will be sacrificed. The gains of labor and to the under privileged will be discarded. We will be living in an iron age in which the very word democracy" will be ridiculed.
 We know that the Nazi concep- tion of life Is unalterably opposed to ours. National Socialism is a revolutionary movement and one that is not constructive but is bent on the destruction of all institu- tions and forms of government that are inimical to 1t. It is not based on more or less permanent general principles but it is purely dynamic and under the control of a ruling caste whose only purpose is to keep itself in power and whose only restraint Is its own conception of expediency.
 After the last war it became fashionable to find flaws in our system of government, with the result that we over-emphasized the defeats and disregarded the benefits. We must admit that our democracy has not been perfect. There has been injustice. But 1t is essential to distinguish between incidental injustice of this type and calmly pursued national policy of hatred and greed and lack of faith. We must remember that the NaZis preach slavery of subjugated peoples, the superiority of the Morales and the qualification of war. Their foreign policy has been founded upon succession of cynical breaches of confidence. The brotherhood of man, individ- ual liberty, freedom of thought, all these are condemned as effemin- ate and outmoded. Hitler was not content to regain for Germany a place in the international sun. He did this at Munich, but this was only a beginning. After this triumph of the appeasers 1t be- came obvious that he was not the moderate that he claimed to be. He was bent coolly and cynically
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