"It will be a new mechanized Europe with some of the forms but none of the substance of freedom—Europe wherein units will be held together by central controls of Nazi fdeologues and Nazi economies, with mailed fist in the background, Real freedom, personal or national, will have perished. The principles of freedom of speech, thought, religion and press, which have been the guid ing ideals of the west, will have been effectively suppressed. The name of the Monroe Doctrine for this Europe will be invoked but it will be a mere mockery and travesty of the Monroe Doctrine of America, which is a bulwark of {ree national self-development for a whole continent. This in. essence will be Hitler's plan.
"It doubtless will be dressed up in attractive forms and make its appeal to a certain order of minds everywhere. Tired, war-sick Europe rack= with suffering, appalled by the spectre of coming starvation, may even accept it' as an. escape' from greater miseries, but it will be a negation of what the human spirit and free human soul stood for through Tong ages and looked forward to as fan inspiring ideal. The vision which guided our long stow advance. will have perished in utter darkness and
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