The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-09
FIR HINTS DRIVE
MAY BE HITTING
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err than easier, during the months
to come.
The president compared the
United Nations war effort to the
community task Of a Middle West
ern city where every person pitch
ed in to fill sand bags and hold
back a destructive flood.
Today" he said, in the same
kind of community effort, t h e
United Nations and their people
have kept the levees of civiliza-
ton high enough to prevent the
floods of aggression and barbarism
and wholesale murder from en-
quilting us all
THE flood has been raging for
four years. At last, we are begin
ming to gain on it; but the waters
have not yet receded enough for
us to relax our sweating work with
the sand bags. In this war bond
campaign we are filling bags and
placing them against the flood
bags which are essential if we are
to stand off the ugly torrent which
is trying to sweep us all away.
To-day, an armistice with Italy
was concluded.
This was great victory for
the United Nations-but it was
also great victory for the Italian
people After years of war and
suffering and degradation, TIL e
Italian people are at last coming
to the day of liberation from their
real enemies, the Nazis.
But let us not delude ourselves
that this armistice means the end
of the war in the Mediterranean.
We must drive the Germans out
of Italy as we have driven them
out of Tunisia and Sicily; we must
drive them out of France and all
other captive countries; and we
must strike them on their own
soil from all directions.
Mr.. Roosevelt told his vast radio
audience it was up to them to
prove to their fellow Americans
on the fighting fronts that they
were contributing more than their
share to the cause.
1--WE must put money into war
bonds which we would not nor
mally save" Mr.. Roosevelt as
serted. "Only then have we done
everything that good conscience
demands"
The money Americans lend the
government and pay in taxes, he
said, "buys that death dealing,
life-saving power we need for vic
tory" The people, he said, know
there can never be "any economic
justification for failing to save
freedom
No one knows, the chief execu-
tive told his countrymen, when to-
tai victory will come. Success of
the third war loan drive, he said,
will be a symbol that America
knows of the tough, bitter job
ahead and will not stop until it
is finished.
Voicing a renewed plea for sue
cess of the $4,000, $1,000 Third
War Loan. Secretary Morgenthau
said tonight "the fall of Italy is
glorious news-if we take it as
the end of round one instead of
the finish of the fight.
In statement issued only
hours before President Roosevelt S
radio address to the nation at
$40 pm. EW0 formally OPEN
ing the 22-day bond campaign, the
Treasury secretary said war
bonds already purchased 'have
paid for our victory over Italy in
part' but added that now, more
than ever before, we need the
help of every individual Ameri-
can"
The Treasury has set goal o:
at least SIS, 1000, 000,0 600 in war bond
sales to individuals. The balance
of the quota is expected to be
subscribed by insurance compa-
MES, corporations, and other bust
ness firms except banks. which
have been excluded for the first
time from participating in = war
loan.
Before the last shot is fired
lot of lives are going to be lost
and a lot of billions spent'' Mor
genthau declared. 'The m 49,
American dollars go into sunerior
equipment, the less Amerioan
blood is going to redden fore On
soil"