Washington, May 7. PMMEDIATE use of the United States Navy to make the seas secure for delivery of munitions to Britain, was urged by Colonel Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of Wer, in a broadcast speech to the nation Jast night.
"The world is facing so great a crisis that all our efforts must be turned toward the defence of our nation's safety," he declared. At the outset; Colonel Stimson answered some critics who today are calling him a war-monger and who are opposed to America's Present efforts at national defence.
"The fact is that for many years after the Great War, both as a private citizen and as Secretory of State, laboured with my fullest strength for establishment of a reign of law among nations, under which their controversies should be settled by' Judiclal methods instead of, by force, 'There wes a time when' such movement seemed full of hope, Today that time has passed—temporarily, we trust—and our hopes of cee "have been dashed by international aggression, confront the world, including ourselves, with the' alternative of abject' surrender or uncompromising forceful resistance, '"E cannot recall' that the United States throughout its history—even when it was small and weak—has yielded to such a demand. Let us See whether there is any need to change our policy now.
"In, the first place, this so-called) new order of Hitler's is not new; "The world is" facing so great a crisis that all our efforts must be fumed toward the defence of our nation's safety, For that reason. tonight I am speaking of that crisis and of our defence in meeting it, "Tm 1983, 0 group of men under the leadership of Adolf Hitler obtained possession of the government Germany and overthrow the German Republic, Both within and without Germany they have set back the clock more than five centuries, Scheme of Conquest "they have embarked on a scheme of, conquest which is avowedly Intented: to be" world wide. Por that purpose, they have built up in secret an immense military machine based on the forced labour of Ger= many, 'They have already attacked, conquered and' occupied Austin, Gaochostovakia. Poland. Norway Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Hrance, Humania. 'Hungary, Bulgaria and" Yugoslavis. and. reduced the people of those thirteen countries toa condition of semi Slavery' to Nazi despotism.
"They, have attached to their Axis 8 vassals two other nations dominate ed by the same purpose of military conquest—ataly guilty of unprovoked attacks upon "Ethiopia, Albania and Greece, and Japan,' guilty of a Simla' aifack upon her neighbour, "By this conquest, they have destroyed western civilization, which has been slowly building up a Europe fever since the dark ages.
"We are 50 close to these sudden happenings "that: we can hardly, yet realize the havoc. which has' thus been" wrought" both "within and without! the. national boundaries of that unhappy continent, 'The growth of freedom fad been' so long. and steady' that we had come to be-Heve it soon to be the Tecopnized system of the whole world. Alt fence it has been dashed oside and ampled on by those, Nazi rulers. who are proposing. to establish 0 world' order in. which they shall. be the masters, the peoples of all other nations their slaves, 'They have lett tio such thing as Individual rights. of tberty within their territory' oF international rights dependence without ther tre Open Hostility "This is the so-called new order: wwe face today, qt has openly announced its hostility 10 us and our order, It has been steadily encircling our: western world, "Ils advance gents are already busy among the Republics to the south of us, building strategic air lines through vital portions that continent and creeping up to~ wards our Panama-Canal. Tis armed forees are threatening West Afric, looking towards a jumping-off place within easy reach of the Brazilian coast, Its propagandists are already yidorously active in our own popula-
"Hitler and have seized their opportunities with uncommon skill, They have used their power to inculcate into "the plestie minds. of a generation of youth the abhorrent. reactionary Goctrines of racial intolerance and hatred of other -men, 'They have taken advantage of modern. science fo develop in secret, while other nations slept, a mechanized striking. force of unprecedented power, "They have used every method of duplicity and propaganda to surprise their violin' nations" with sudden attack, They now arrogantly
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