"Tonight, in the presence of world crisis, my' mind goes back to eight Does anyone seriously believe. Mx. Roosevelt said, "that we need to fear attack while a free Britain vemaing our most powerful naval neighbour in the Atlantic Does anyone seriously believe, on the other hand, that we could vest easy If the Axis Powers were our neighbours there "It Is no exaggeration to soy that all of us in the Americas would be living at the point of a gun...."To survive in such a world we would have to convert "ourselves perman= ently into a militaristic power on a basis of war econom; there is danger against which we must We well "In the midst of domestic cris it was a time when the wheels of American industry were grinding 10 ull stop, when the whole banking tem ceased to function.
"IL tried to convey to the great mass of American people what a banking crisis would mean to thei daily lives "Tonight, 1 want to do the same thing with the same people in this new. crisis which faces America.
"Never before, since Jamestown and Plymouth Rock has our American civilization been in such danger as now, For on September 27, 1940, by fan agreement signed at Berlin, three powerful nations, two in Europe and now. that we escape this anger, oF the fear of this danger. by crawling into bed and pulling the covers up over our heads."
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