UNITY INDISPENSABLE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 May 1941, Page 5

UNITY INDISPENSABLE

“Now as never before the unity of the American people is of supreme importance to each and every one of us and to the cause of freedom throughout the world,” the President said. “The pressing problems that confront us are military problems. We cannot afford to approach them from the point of view of wishful thinking or sentimentalists. The fundamental fact is that what started as a European war has developed, as the Nazis always intended it should develop, into a world war for world domination. It is unmistakably apparent to all of us that unless the advance ,of Hitlerism is forcibly checked now the Western Hemisphere will be in range of the Nazi weapons of destruction.” The President went on to review the necessary measures already undertaken for the defence of the United States and the aid given to the democracies culminating in the passage of the Lend and Lease Act. “Our whole programme of aid for the Democracies has been based on hard-headed concern for our own security, and for the kind of safe, civilised world in which we wish to live,” he said. “Every dollar of material we send helps to keep the dictators away from our own hemisphere. Every day they are held off gives us time to build more guns, tanks, planes and ships. We have made no pretence about our own self-interest in this aid. Britain understands it and so does Germany. “We have doubled and redoubled our vast production. We are increasing month by month the supply of tools of war for ourselves, Britain and' China, and eventually all the democracies. The supply of these tools will not fail. It will increase with greatly augmented strength.