A strong plea for voluntary cooperation among the American people to prepare the United States for any emergency that may arise was made recently by Dr. H. F. Grady. President of the American President Lines, before the San Francisco Advertising Club whose members he addressed on-the subject of "National Unity in nátional Defence" He sounded a warning against the "apeasers concept" in the foreign relations policy of America and declared that a nation has only two courses open in achieving an effective system of national defence.
Declaring that a nation aspiring to a high degree of preparedness must choose between the iron will of a dictator and the freely-given cooperation of a people governed by the standards of true democracy the speaker added: "Dictators have a great contempt for democracies, because in their opinion democracies dissipate their energies in talk and parliamentary wrangling rather than in action. The conclusion is clearly wrong. however, as history has proved on more than one occasion. In the final analysis the democratic way is the best way."
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