TIME COUNTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 July 1941, Page 6

TIME COUNTS

PRESIDENT’S WARNING WORDS TO CONGRESS REALITY OF EMERGENCY. RISKS THAT SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN. (Received This Day, 1.10 p.m.) WASHINGTON, July 21. President Roosevelt said it was the well-nigh unanimous opinion cf those cognisant with the field of international relations that the aggressor nations had a scheme against American security and it was so evident that all the Americas were definitely imperilled. “That is why, reluctantly and after a careful weighing of facts and events I recently proclaimed an unlimited national emergency,” he added. “I do not think any branch of the Government of the United States would be willing to let. America risk the fate which destroyed the independence of other nations. Each elimination of a victim has brought the Nazi domination closer to this hemisphere, while, month by month, their intrigues of propaganda and conspiracy have sought to weaken every link in the community cf interests that should bind the Americas into a great western family. I know in all truth that we are in the midst of a national emergency and I hope that Congress will acknowledge this national emergency because of the swiftness of modern events. I think Congress should also remove restrictions on the numbers of selectees inducted each year. It is true that in modern war men without machines are of little value. It is equally true that machines without men are of no value at all. One final word —time counts. Within two months disintegration, which would follow failure to take Congressional action, will commence in the armies of the United States. Time counts —the responsibility rests solely with Congress.”