"I also am very happy to say a word to the radio audience on this Just over three and a half years Jago, our present Prime Minister, Mr. Winston Churchill, wrote that there never was a time in all our history when the good relations. tween the British Empire and the United States otood so high. If those words were true then, how much more are they true today. In the midst of all the disillusionment and frustration, inevitably engendered in the minds' of peace-loving men and women by struggle that threatens to engulf nearly the whole world, the growing friendship and, better stil, understanding between the peo. pies of the United States and Great Britain, stands out as a beacon light, land gives us a new faith in the future of civilization, occasion for, next to Americans, Britons have always had the closest interest in the independence of the United States. After all, the whole thing started os a matter of some concern to us. Moreover, since the establishment of that independence, the date has served as a constant reminder of the importance of political Hiverty in human affairs, Thdeed, it now a commonplace that the Declaration of Independence served as an advance definition of the status of the various branches of the British Commonwealth, Thus the unity of the British Commonwealth today, to which we owe so much, depends in rear measure on the principles and the example of the independence of the United States of America, Righteous Cause "Twist Lion's Tall "On that day more than three years ago, Mr. Churchill also wrote. that there were ways in which the United States, without exposing herself to the risk oF toll of war, could give
people and government, and powerful effect "to the moral feelings of hee Jaid to causes she deemed righteous. Today the nations of the British Em: ire have every assurance that the American people deem the cause for Which they ace fighting a righteous one. They have already received a Gegree of material support which has changed the Lossibility of defeat into the prospect of victory. They know that once the Immense resources of the United States are Keyed unto their highest pitch of production, such resources Will constitute an invincible weapon of defence and of-[fence against the most powerful foes. But above all, they feel now that they have behind them the full mora' sup, port of the people for whom they have been told that it is a con ventional practice on, this occasion twist the lion's tail! and T should like to say that this is certainly O.K. by me. "Twisting the Hon's tail" Is, T take it, an operation designed 10 Put more' and more fight into him and T am all for it, Thus I say to you carry. on with that sort of mit twisting all you can, We can never have too much of it and we gan never be too grateful to you for all that we get, More particular~ ly T would refer to that. kind of encouragement which we get from all the planes and other war supplies which we receive from you in ever "I would say at this point that 1 have been much inspired by what T have heard tonight as to the ways fa which America can be defended, Britons have learned by experience that effective defence is composed of something more that guns and planes.
Allied Federation Sends|American Attitude Message to Roosevelt
sent to President Roosevelt sieving se Sox "Stoppage of United States assist Janee to Japan's enemy, and the yesterday by the Allied Federa-changing of the United States pre-ion of Shanghai, on the acc: judicial altitude that whatever "the sion of Independence Day: U.S. does 1s right, and whatever "On the occasion of Amer-JJapan docs is wrong, are two ways ica's Independence Day the fby which peace in the Paelfe, hoped Allied Federation of Shanghai for by Mr. Sumner Welles, US.
sends greetings and expresses UndersSeerelary of State, may be deep gratitude through you to best achiever," Licut. Col, Kunio Akiyama, local Japanese. Army the American people for its [spokesman, declared during yester generous and unwavering sup-day's press conference.
port: to those fighting for the The spokesmen added that he fully four freedoms."
Jagreea with Mr. Welles' peace wishes For. the Pacific.
Blueldating further, Colonel Akd~ We have seen particularly how de-yama pointed out the inconsistencies fence begins right in the homes of United States policy as exampled the people, and in the hearts of those the fact that the US. adopted a who go to build such homes, osed door" polley, while insisting jon Japan's following the "open door"
Common History potiey.
"Livery ye 1 participate in "Closed Door" celebrations of Independence Day and Citing, a psychological instance of find myself rather paradoxically doing America's closed door potiey, the 0 wholeheartedly, I am reminded of spokesman declared that the United the common history which we shared States adopted a policy of diseriminaat least until the event we celebrate tion, for instance, by forbidding en-today, and in particular that great try of Japanese immigrants.
Gate in the history of Anglo-Saxon Colonel Akiyama pointed out that Institutions, June 1218, when the while Mr. Welles was voleing hopes 'Magna Carta was signed, the cir~ for peace in the Pacife, the United cumstances were those of a feudal Stars was openly sending war sup-quarrel between the Monarch and plies to Chungking, thereby protonghis' Barons, and resulted, almost fortuitiously, the historians' tell us, the success of the latter, And yet, that frankly quite trivial success is, recorded. in a document which enshrines the most fundamental pr ciples of "Anglo-Saxon justice, that no man shall be deprived of his life, his liberty or his: property without trial by his peers, a principle which has since distinguished our way of life, "whether Britain, the British Commonwealth or the United States of Ameri
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