and it does and never will create order in this world, Hitler's regime of brutal lawlesmess is merely, one of those temporary reactions which have occurred at intervals during' man's long progress upward. Since his origin millions of years ago, am-Ditious men many times attempted a worldwide conquest over the Iiperties of their fellow-men. But they have never permanently succeed-and they never will.
Taken Advantage Describing his suggestion of full American naval assistance to Britain, Colonel Stimson said "For many. years, we have been building and maintaining our Navy. If today. that Navy should make secure the seas for the delivery of our munitions to Britain, it will render as great a service to our own country and to the preservation of American freedom as it has rendered in, all_its glorious history.
"Supplementing the efforts of the British Navy, it can render secure all oceans, north, south, west and east, which" surround our continent, "In that way. It can help hold in check the onward rush of the tide of Nazism until other defence forces of all Democracies are completed. This: would eventually and permanently confine the malign forees of despotism. until the virus has run its course and the tide of freedom has begun to rise again, "On the other hand, if our Navy's assistance should be withheld until the power of the British Fleet and nation has been broken, its own pow-of exceutlon would at once shrink but an impotent fraction of what it ould do at the present moment.
If we should allow the present strategic moment to pass until the power of the British Navy Is gone, our Navy would become merely a secondary power instead of a decisive winning power in the world contest.
"is it conceivable that the Amerlcan people. would allow this to happen after the carefully determined course which we have pursued until this moment, after the clear statements and appeals made by our President in respect of the danger which confronts us, after the over whelming response to his appeals which have been made by Congress, Stier we have taken our place de finitely behind the warring Democracles and against the aggressor na-Hons in defence of our freedom, after providing for billions worth of muni-tons to carry on that defence. and while we hold in our hands the Instrument ready and able to make
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