The Wilmington morning star., 1943-02-13

taken in the skies over China-and
Japan itself. N.
The discussions at Casablanca
have been continued in Chungking
with the generalissimo by General
Arnold and have resulted in de-
finite plans for offensive opera
tions.
There are many roads which lead
right to Tokyo. We shall neglect
none of them.
In an attempt to ward off the in
evitable disaster, the Axis pro-
pagandists are trying all of their
old tricks in order to divide the
United Nations. They seek to
create the idea that if we win this
war, Russia, England, China and
the United States are going to get
into a cat-and-dog fight.
This is their final effort to turn
one nation against another, in the
vain hope that they may settle
with one or two at time-that any
of us may be so gullible and so for
getful as to be duped into making
IDEALS" at the expense of our Al
lies.
To these panicky attempts to
escape the consequences of their
crimes we say-an the United
Nations say-that the only terms
on which we shall deal with any
Axis government or any Axis
factions are the terms proclaimed
at Casablanca: unconditional sur
render" In our uncompromising
policy we mean no harm to the
common people Of the Axis ma
tions. But we do mean to impose
punishment and retribution in full
upon their guilty, barbaric leaders.
The Nazis must be frantic in
deed if they believe that they can
devise any propaganda which
would turn the British and Ameri-
can and Chinese governments and
peoples against Russia-or Rus
sia against the rest of us.
The overwhelming courage and
endurance Of the Russian people
in withstanding and hurting back
the invaders-and the genius with
which their great armies have
been directed and led by Mr.. Stain
and their military commanders
all speak for themselves.
The tragedy of the war has
sharpened the vision Of the lead
ership and peoples of all the Unit
ed Nations and l can say to you
from my own full knowledge that
they see the utter necessity of our
standing together after the war to
secure a peace based on priciples
of permanence.
You can be quite sure that if
Japan should be the first of the
Axis partners to fall, the total
efforts and resources of all the
United Nations would be concen-
trated on the job of crushing Ger
many.
And, on the other hand, lest there
be any question in Nazi or Japa-
nese minds that we are wholly one
in the prosecution of the war to a
complete victory all over the
world, the prime minister wished
to make a formal agreement that
if Germany should be conquered
before Japan, all British Empire
resources and manpower would,
of course, join with China and us in
Japan. I told him that no formal
statement or agreement along
these lines was in the least bit
necessary - that the American
people accept the word of a great
English gentleman-and that it
was obvious and clear that all of
us are completely in accord in our
determination to destroy the forces
of babarism in Asia and in Europe
and in Africa. In other words
our policy toward our Japanese
enemies is precisely the same as
our policy towards our Nazi enc
mics: 1t is policy of fighting
hard on all fronts and ending the
war as quickly as we can on the
uncompromising terms Of uncon-
ditional surrender.
Today is the anniversary of the
birth of great, plain American.
The living memory of Abraham
Lincoln is now honored and cher
ished by all of our people, where
ever they may be, and by men
and women and children through
out the British commonwealth,
and the Soviet Union, and the Re-
public of China, and in every land
on earth where people love free
dom and will give their lives for
freedom.
President Lincoln said in 1852,
ssFellow Citizens, we cannot es-
cape history. We of this Congress
and this administration will be
remembered in spite of ourselves.
No personal significance or in
significance can spare one or an
other of us. The fiery trial through
which we pass will light us
In honor or dishonor, to the lat
est generation.
Today, eighty years after Lin
coin delivered that message, the
fires Of war are blazing across the
whole horizon Of mankind from
Kharkev to Kunming-from the
Mediterranean to the Coral Sea
from Berlin to Tokyo.
Again-we cannot escape his
tory. We have supreme confidence
that with the help of God honor
will prevail. We have faith that
f,,t,,re generations will know that
bore in the middle Of the twentieth