The President mentioned the Nazi plots in Uruguay, Argentinn ana Bolivia, adding that "within the past few weeks discovery has been made of secret air landing fields in Colombia within easy range of the Panama Canal. I cora multiply the instances," he added.
ident Roosevelt called sub-maginess the "rattlesnakes of the At-antic" and declared: "Let us not split hairs, Let's not ask whether the Americas should begin to defend themselves after the fifth, 10th or 20th attack.
"The time for active defence is now "ib is the time for prevention of attack, "the American people will stand their ground against this latest assault on their democracy, sovereign-ana freedom."
President Roosevelt said the American Navy can remain invincible "only if the British Navy survives" because the Axis, if it controls the world outside America, will have building facilities two or three times greater than the Americas. the seas, President Roosevelt declared that this "means no nation has the right to make the broad oceans of the world at great distance from the actual theatre of land war unsafe for the commefoe of others."
"The President repeatedly assailed Herr Hitler and the Nazis throughout his speech.
begun a campaign to contro! e seas "it is clear that Herr Hitler has by ruthless force, and the wiping out Of every vestige o? international law and humanity," he declared. His intention have bern made clear. The American people cannot have further illusions about it "The present Government of Germany has no respect for treaties and for international law, no decent attitude toward neutrals or human life.
"Force, Terror and Murder"
"The attack on the Greer was no localized military operation in the North Atlantic....it was one determined step toward creating a permanent world system based on force and terror and murder "The danger here now is not only nery. of all am, liberty, morality from a military enemy but from an
and religion. There has now come the time you and I must sce the cold, inexorable necessity of saying to these inhuman, unrestrained seekers of world conquest and permanent world domination by the sword—you seek to throw our children and our children's children into your form of ter. rorism and slavery, You have now stracked our own safety. You shall go no further.'
President Roosevelt reassured the country by declaring that "we have sought no shooting war with Herr Hitler. We do not seek it now," but] a; he grimly warned that "neither do we want peace so much we are willing to pay for it by permitting him to attack our naval and merchant ships while on legitimate business. we cannot bring about the downfall of Naziism by the use of long-range invective,
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