The President proceeded that if any Government, bristling with impiements of war, insists on policies Of power, weapons of defence will give only safety.
He declared that God-fearing demo-erades of the world cannot evermore let pass, without effective protest, acts of aggression against sister nations—acts which automatically undermine all of us.
"We learned the old, old lesson," continued the President, "that the probability of an attack is might Gecreased by the assurance of an ever ready defence."
President Roosevelt said he would send a special message to Congress in a few days, recommending measures for adequate defence.
"It another form of Government can present a united front in an attack on democracy," the President continued, "the attack must be met by a united democracy.
"Such a democracy can and must in the United States.
"Never have there been six years of such far-flung preparedness in the history of the United States.
"And all this has been done with-
Out any dictator's power of command, without conscription of labour, confiscation of capital, concentration camps and without a scratch on the freedom of speech, freedom of the press or the rest of the Bill of Rights."—Reuter,
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