He added that these Americans must be embarrassed by the sinister support they were receiving from the enemies of democracy in our midst.
'The President again pledged that the United States would preserve social gains made under the New Deal. and declared that "this is no time' for capital to make or retain excess profits."
'Mr. Roosevelt warned that, the nation's mediation machinery for industrial disputes must be usee promptly without stoppage of work. He said' the Government. was determined to prevent interference in defence production.
Closing hig address. the President declared' that "we will not accent a Hitler-dominated world. "We will not accept -a world ike that of the 20'¢ which the seeds of Hitlerism can aga be planted and allowed to grow.
"We know enough to realize that it would be sulelde to wait until they fare in our front yards. When an enemy comes at you in a tank or bomber, if you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you.' Our Bunker Hill of tomorrow may be several thousand miles from Boston," the president added.
Mr. Roosevelt revealed that the strength of the Atlantic Fleet was steadily building up as part of the national defence programme.
The President outlined national policy ay consisting, firstly, of active resistance whenever necessary "against every Hiller attempt to extend Naat domination into the Western Hemisphere or to threaten it, We will all actively resist his every tempt to gain control of the seas We insist on the vital importance of keeping Hitlerism from any point in the world which could be used and would be used as a base for attack against the Americas."
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