"A call to crush Hitler" is the description given by newspapers here to President Roosevelt's Labour Day speech, A deeper impression has been made by the speech in America than pos-ably anything Mr. Roosevelt has yet said since the Atlantic meeting.
The "New York Daily News" calls 2 personal declaration war against "We are beginning more and more frankly to concede that we are passing even beyond a state that could probably be described as non-belligerence,'" says the "New York Times. "When the President spoke yesterday. he was speaking frankly and belligerently. We have not yet declared. or taken a direct part in a shooting wer. But we have taken up a position which must force us ultimately fo take such a direct part if our present policy does not prove sui cient to defeat Hitler. It is a position from which the overwhelming majority of Americans do not wish whether another passage of the re is some speculation to
speech does not indicate that conveys may be intended Omission of any reference to Japan is seen by some commentators as an indication that the door for settlement is still being hopefully left open.
The President did "not define "everything" and nowhere in his speech did he go as far as to say that the United States once more should go to war, yet he went farther than in any previous, public pronouncement in pledging America "to do our full part" in conquering Hitlerism.
Following is the full text of the President's speech:
"On this day—this American holiday—we celebrate the rights of free Jabouring men and women. Preservation of these rights is now vitally important, not only to us, who enjoy them, but to the whole future of Christian civilization.
Vast Armament Effort "American Labour now bears a tremendous responsibility in winning this, most brutal, most terrible of all wars, In our factories, shops and arsenals we are building weapons on a scale great in its magnitude, "To all battle-fronts of the world, these weapons are being despatched by day and night over the seas and through the air, and this nation is now devising and developing new Chuck-in for Chungking weapons of unprecedented power toward the maintenance of Democracy. Money to help the National Government of China in Chungking was tossed into a huge national "Why are we doing this? Why are we determined to devote our flag carried by Chinese girls through New York's Chinatown when ten thousand Chinese-Americans entire industrial effort the pro-paraded in celebration of the fourth year of China's successful resistance to the Japanese invasion. secution of a war which has not Picture shows the procession passing down one of New York's streets. yet actually touched our own shores? We are not a war-like people, we have never sought glory as a nation of: warriors. We are not interested in aggression. We are not interested—as dictators are—in looting. We
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