Evening star., 1942-10-13
The tert of President Roose-
Uelts address last night follotDs.

Of camps and training stations and
war factories.
The main thing that I observed
on this trip is not exactly news. It
is the plain fact that the American
people are united as never before in
their determination to do a job and
to do it we'll
This whole Nation of 100 900
free men and women and children
is becoming one great fighting force.
Some of us are soldiers or sailors,
some Of us are civilians. Some of
us are fighting the war in airplanes,
5 miles above the continent of
Europe or the islands of the Pacific
and some of us are fighting 1t in
mines deep down in the earth of
Pennsylvania or Montana.
| A few of us are decorated with
medals for heroic achievement, but
all of us can have that deep and
permanent inner satisfaction that
comes from doing the best We know
how-each of us playing an honor
able part in the great struggle to
save our democratic civilization.
United Nations Strength
Still on Upgrade.
Whatever our individual circum-
stances or opportunities-we are all
In it, and our spirit is good, and we
Americans and our Allies are going
to win-and do not let any one tell
you anything different.
That Is the main thing that saw
on my trip around the country-un-
beatable spirit. If the leaders of
Germany and Japan could have
come along with me, and had seen
what saw, they would agree with
my conclusions. Unfortunately, they
were unable to make the trip with
me. That Is one reason why we are
carrying our war effort overseas
to them.
With every passing week the war
increases in scope and intensity.
That is true in Europe, in Africa, in
Asia, and On all the seas.
The strength of the United Ma
tions is on the upgrade in this war.
The Axis leaders, on the other hand,
know by now that they have already
reached their full strength, and that
their steadily mounting losses in
men and material cannot be fully
replaced. Germany and Japan are
already realizing what the newt
able result will be when the total
strength of the United Nations hits
them-at additional places on the
earth's surface.
One of the principal weapons OF
our enemies in the past has been
| their use Of what is called "the war
of nerves" They have spread false
hood and terror; they have started
fifth columns everywhere; they have
duped the innocent; they have To-
mented suspicion and hate between
neighbors: they have aided and
abetted those people in other ma
| tionS-even our own-Whose words
and deeds are advertised from Ber-
lin and Toxic as proof of disunity.
Nazi Propaganda Machine
Forced on Defensive.
The greatest defense against all
such propaganda Is the common
sense of the common people-and
that defense is prevailing
The war of nerves" against the
United Nations is now turning into
a boomerang. For the first time
the Nazi propaganda machine Is on
the defensive. They begin to apollo
gize to their own people for the
repulse of their vast forces at Stall
ingrad, and for the enormous cas-
ualties they are suffering. They are
compelled to beg their overworked
people to rally their weakened pro-
duction. They even publicly admit,
for the first time, that Germany can
be fed only at the cost of stealing
food from the rest of Europe.
They are proclaiming that a sec
ond front is impossible; but, at the
same time, they are desperately
rushing troops in all directions and
stringing barbed wire all the way
from the coasts of Finland and Nor
way to the islands of the Eastern
Mediterranean.
Meanwhile, they are driven to
increase the fury of their atrocities.
The United Nations have decided
to establish the identity OF those
Nazi leaders who are responsible for
the innumerable acts Of savagery.
As each of these criminal deeds Is
committed, 1t is being carefully in
yestigated, and the evidence Is being
relentlessly piled up for the future
purposes Of justice.
We have made it entirely clear
that the United Nations seek no
mass reprisals against the popula-
tions of Germany or Italy or Japan.
But the ringleaders and their brutal
henchmen must be named, and ap-
pretended, and tried in accordance
with the judicial processes Of Grim
inal law.
There are now millions Of Amer
leans Tn army camps, in naval sta
tions, in factories and in shipyards.
Made Trip to Learn
Answers to Questions.
Who are these millions upon
whom the life of our country de-
pends? What are they thinking?
What are their doubts and what are
their hopes? And how is the work
progressing?
The Commander in Chief cannot
learn all of the answers to these
questions in Washington. That is
why I made the trip did.
1t is very easy to say, as some have
said, that when the President travels
through the country he should go
with a blare of trumpets, with
crowds on the sidewalks, with bat
teries of reporters and photogra-
phers-talking and posing with all
the politicians of the land.
But, having had some experience
in this war and in the last war, ]
can tell you very simply that the
kind of trip I took permitted me to
concentrate on the work had to do
without expending time, meeting all
the demands Of publicity. And-1
might add-it was a particular
pleasure to make a tour OF the
country without having to give q
single thought to politics.
expect to make other trips for