HITLER’S PLOTTING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 September 1941, Page 5

HITLER’S PLOTTING

“To be ultimately successful in world mastery, Hitler knows he must get control of the seas. He must first destroy the bridge of ships which we are building across the Atlantic and over which we shall continue to roll implements of war to help destroy him and all his works. In the end he must wipe out our patrol of the sea and air, and he must silence the British Navy. “It must be explained again and again to the people who like to think

that the United States Navy is an invincible protection that this can be true only if the British Navy survives. It is time for all Americans of all the Americas to stop being deluded by the romantic notion that the Americas can go on living happily and peacefully in a Nazi-dominated world. ' “If Hitler got control of the rest of the Old World, he would have manpower and physical resources that could outbuild the United States several times over. : “Generation after generation, the Americas have battled for a general policy of freedom of the seas. That policy means that no nation has the right to make the; broad oceans of the world at great distances from the actual theatre of a land war unsafe for the commerce of others. That policy has applied from time immemorial and it still applies, not merely to the Atlantic but also the Pacific and all the other oceans.