Evening star., 1943-08-25
RooseveIt's S Ottawa Text
Remarks Before Informal Session
Of Conudon Parliament
BY the Associated Press.

BY tne Associated Press.
OTTAWA, Aug. 25.-FolloDinq
is the tert OF President Roose-
Delts address today to an infor-
NAL session OF the Canadian Par
lament
Your excellency, members OF thu
Parliament, my good friends ane
neighbors Of the Dominion oI
Canada:
1t was exactly five years ago lasi
Wednesday that 1 came to Canada
to receive the high honor of a degree
at Queens University. On that oc.
casion-one year before the invasion
of Poland, three years before Pear
Harbor-I said
I'VE in the Americas are no longer
a far-away continent, to which the
eddies of controversies beyond the
seas could bring no interest or nc
harm. Instead, we in the Americas
have become consideration to every
propaganda Office and to every gen.
eral staff beyond the seas. The vast
amount of our resources, the vigor OF
our commerce and the strength OF
our men have made us vital factors
in world peace whether We choose ii
or not"
We did not choose this war-and
that I'VE" includes each and every
one of the United Nations.
War was violently forced upon Ills
by criminal aggressors, who measure
their standards of morality by the
extent Of the death and the destruc-
tion that they can inf1ict upon their
neighbors.
In this war Canadians and Ameri-
cans have fought shoulder to shoul-
oer--as our men and our women and
our children have worked together
and played together in happier times
of peace.
Today, in devout gratitude, we are
celebrating a brilliant victory won
by British, Canadian and American
fighting men in Sicily.
Today we rejoice also in another
event for which we need not apollo
gize. A year ago Japan occupied
several of the Aleutian Islands and
made a great ''to-do" about the in
vasion of the continent of North
America. I regret to say that some
Americans and some Canadians
for political purposes chiefly
wished our governments to with
draw from the Atlantic and the
Mediterranean campaigns and di-
vert all our vast strength to the
removal of the Japs from a few
rocky specks in the Aleutians.
War Council Compared
To Family Discussion.
Today our wiser councils have
maintained our efforts in the Allan
tic area and the Southwest Pacific
with ever-growing contributions
and in the Northwest Pacific a rela
lively small campaign has been as
sisted by the Japs themselves in the
elimination of the last Jap from Attu
and Kiska. We have been told that
Japs never surrender: their head.
long retreat satisfies us just as well
Great councils are being helc
here on the free and honored soil ol
Canada-councils which look to the
future conduct of this war and tc
the years of building a new prog
ress for mankind.
To these councils Canadians anc
Americans alike again welcome thai
wise and good and gallant gentle
man, the Prime Minister of Great
Britain.
Mr.. King, my old friend, may
through you thank the people o.
Canada for their hospitality to al
of us. Your course and mine have
run so closely and affectionately
during these many long years tha
this meeting adds another link tt
that chain. I have always felt a.
home in Canada and you, I think
have always felt at home in thu
United States.
During the past days in Quebec
the combined STATS have been sit
ting around table talking thing
over, discussing ways and means
in the manner of friends, in tn,
manner of partners, may even sa,
in the manner of members of tn,
same family.
We have talked constructively o
our common purposes in this war
of our determination to achieve vic
tory in the shortest possible time
of our essential cooperation will
our great and brave fighting Allies
And we have arrived, harmoni
ously, at certain definite conclusions
OF course, I am not at liberty t,
disclose just what these conclusion
are, but in due time we shall com
municate the secret information o
| the Quebec Conference to Germany
Italy and Japan. We shall com
municate this information to ou
enemies in the only language thei
twisted minds seem capable of un
derstanding.
Wishes Hitler Could
Attend in Spirit.
Sometimes I wish that that Rrea
master of intuition, the NaZi leader
could have been present in spirit q
the Quebec Conferenee-I am thor
oughly glad he was not there il
person. II he and his generals ha,
known our plans they would hav
realized that discretion is still tn
better part Of valor and that sur
render would pay them better no'
than later.
The evil characteristic that make
a Nazi Nazi is his utter inabilit
to understand and therefore to re
spect the qualities or the rights q