MIGHTY EFFORT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24402, 13 September 1940, Page 5

MIGHTY EFFORT

AMERICAN NAIIUN ADEQUATE DEFENCE PRESIDENT STATES POLICY i WASHINGTON, Sept. 11. (Received Sept. 12, at 10.30 p.m.) President Roosevelt, in a speech at the Teamsters’ Union Convention, said that America was rising to meet the ever-growing need for adequate armed defence. He. promised not to abandon Labour, who would gain as a result of the'rearmament. At the same time he pointed out that in the countries where unions had disappeared, the iron hand of the dictator had taken command. He emphasised that the people who had yielded their liberty for revolutionary promises had received only rationing of news, religion, clothes, and bread. “Our mightydefence effort against all present and potential threats,” the President declared, “cannot be measured alone in the terms of a mathematical increase of soldiers, sailors, guns, tanks, and planes. Behind must stand a united people. I hate war more than ever. I have one supreme determination — to do all* I can to keep war from these shores for all time. Let us have an end to appeasement which seeks to keep us helpless by playing on f ear __by indirect sabotage of all the progress we are making.”