Washington, May 1, President Roosevelt yesterday appealed to the people of the United States to pay for the huge US. armament programme in order to secure existence of America's future generations, Speaking at opening of the national defence bond and savings stamp campaign, President Roosevelt said that "in this time of national peril" the people must realize that the United States Government is "you and I and all the other families next door all the way àcross the country back again, It is one great Democracy.
"We are engaged in an all out effort to perpetuate Democracy in the New World by aiding an embattled Democracy in the Old World," thought that "it is in just such measure as support our government, will it be strong, effective and safe.
"Defences that were adequate a decade ago today are broken reeds, New machines ín the; air, on land and sea have created a revolution in the conduct of offensive war and defensive war. pone "Nations which were safe in the. last decade by virtue of the mere fact of distance from possible aggression, today have been overrun by mechanized conquerors," said the President, "Your Government, therefore, is arming; factories are springing up. Production is multiplying," he said.
The President said he was making an appeal for "financial support to pay for our arming, to pay for American existence for later generations,"
The Government, he said, was asking for sacrifice "but is it sactific. ing for us to give dollars when more than a million of our finest young /men are being withdrawn i from civilian life to accept the discipline of military life? Ths defence savings programme is rather a privilege and opportunity to share in the defence of all things we cherish," "United Prem, 4
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