The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-07

and for guaranteeing freedom
from want and fear.
LAUDS RUSSIA
BY far the largest and most
important developments in the
whole strategic picture of 1912, "
Mr. Roosevelt asserted, were
the events on the long front in
Russia: First. the implacable de-
Tense of Stalingrad; and, second,
the offensives by the Russian
armies at various points which
started in the latter part of Mo-
vember and which still roll on
with great force and effective
ness"
The Capitol was the scene Of
unusual precautions taken to
safeguard the chief executive.
Hours before his arrival time
police, secret service men ard
regular Army personnel thi ew
a Gordon around the hill.
Steel-helmeted- soldiers, bay
onets affixed to garand rifles,
stood at attention all around the
Capitol and in its plaza.
POLICE ON GUARD
Special Capitol police, their
numbers augmented by metro
politan police, were on guard at
all entrances and were stationed
throughout the Capitol. No one
was permitted to enter the
building without a special pass
or Identification. Admission to
the House galleries was by spe-
cial card only.
Mr.. Roosevelt told the law
makers that the period of our
defensive attribution in the Pa
cific," was passing, adding:
Now our aim is to force the
japanese to fight. Last year, we
stopped them. This year, we in
tend to advance.
In the African theater, he pre-
dicted the last vestige of Axis
power would be driven from the
south shores of the Mediterran-
can.
Il do not prophesy when this
war will end" the chief execu-
tive said. But / do believe that
this year of 1913 will give to the
United Nations a very substan-
tial advance along the roads that
lead to Berlin, and Rome and
Tokyo.
Il tell you it is within the
realm on possibility that this
18th Congress may have the his
toric privilege of helping great
ly to save the world from future
fear.
Therefore, let us-all of us
have confidence, let us redouble
our efforts
The President opened his ad-
dress with his summary of war
operations. and, in it. said that
I'VE are going to strike and
strike hardin Europe"
WIDE POSSIBILITIES
II can not tell you," he said,
whether we are going to hit
them in Norway, or through the
low countries, or in France, or
through Sardinia, or Sicily, or
through the Balkans, or through
Poland-or at several points ST.
simultaneously.
But / can tell you that no
matter where and when we
strike by land, we and the Brit
ish and the Russians will hit
them from the air heavily and
relentlessly. Day in and day out
we shall heap tons upon tons of
explosives on their war factor
les and utilities and seaports."
The eventual outcome of the
fighting in the Pacific, the Pres
ident said, can be put on a math-
ematical basis, since it is known
that japanese strength in ships
and planes declines daily and
American strength rises. He said
this would become evident to the
Japanese people when we
strike at their own home islands,
and bomb them constantly from
the air."
Mr.. Roosevelt said he could
report with genuine pride on
the strides of war production in
1912. And, while achieving q
miracle of production, he said,
we have increased our armed
forces from little over 2,000,-
600 to 100000.
On production, he cited spe-
cific figures.
Last month, he said, $500
military planes rolled out of
American factories and the rate
Is rising rapidly. But he conced-
ed that the 1912 plane output
and tank production fell numer-
ically short of the goals set a
year ago. His goal last January