TELLING BLOWS
STRUCK FOR DEMOCRACY ROOSEVELT'S LIBERTY DAY SPEECH. BUILDING AND PROTECTION OF SHIPS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) WASHINGTON. September 27. Broadcasting today on Liberty Fleet Day, the occasion of the launching of 14 of the 312 new emergency type cargo ships, President Roosevelt said; “This is a memorable day in the history of American shipbuilding and a memorable day in the emergency defence of the nation.
“Today, from dawn to dusk, 14 ships are being launched on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and in the gulf,” he said. “Among them is the first Liberty ship, Patrick Henry. “While we are proud of what we are doing, this is no time to be content. We must build more and still more cargo ships. We must speed up till we achieve a launching daily and then two daily'. Our shipbuilding programme, mercantile and naval, is one of our answers to aggressors who would strike at our liberty. “The shipworkers of America are doing a great job. They are striking a telling blow at the menace to our nation and the liberty of free peoples. They have struck 14 such blows today. They have caught the true spirit with which all in this nation must be imbued if Hitler is lo be prevented from crushing us.
“We Americans as a whole cannot listen to those few Americans who preach the gospel of fear and who say in effect that they are still in favour of freedom of the seas but who would have the United States tie up our ships. That attitude is neither truthful nor honest. We propose that these ships shall sail the seas to the best of our ability to protect them from torpedo, from shell and from bomb.
....“The Patrick Henry, as one o*f the liberty ships launched today, renews that great patriot’s stirring demand. ‘Give me liberty or give me death.’ There shall be no death for America, for democracy, for freedom. There must be liberty, world-wide and eternal. That is our prayer and our pledge to all mankind.”
' Broadcasting on the occasion, the chairman of the Maritime Commission. Admiral Land, said:
“American shipyards must further increase production to offset the shortage of freighters and hasten the defeat of the aggressors.” The British Minister of War Transport, Lord Leathers, sent the following message to Admiral Land: — “Liberty Fleet Day symbolises for us and our Allies the cause for which we are fighting. Only by freedom of the seas can the freedom of the world be secured. It is indeed an auspicious day which secs the launching from your yards of 12 United States and two British vessels.” SHIPS & PLANES SOME DETAILS OF VAST EXPANSION. RUGBY. September 27. An indication of the magnitude of the United States shipbuilding programme, the success ot which will have so important an effect not only on the battle of the Atlantic, but also on the whole war, is given by the “Los Angeles Times,” which says that 947 vessels of 5,851,000 tons are now on order. This is treble the number on order a year ago. The current programme already totals two-thirds of the American merchant marine now afloat. Contracts anticipated shortly will bring new construction to over 1300 ships. Regarding American aircraft pro-, duction a Wall Street journal states that two years from now the American aircraft engine industry will be turning out power pianist to keep 65,000 American and British warplanes flying and put 4000 new planes a month in the air. This means 14,000 plane engines a month capable of developing 16,000,000 horsepower. By July next year production should be in excess of 8000 engines and better than 8,700,000 horsepower - a month. Five thousand union painters in New York donated today's wages, exceeding 50,000 dollars, to the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, for use in the Stop Hitler campaign. This is the first time in 20 years since the union won the five-day week that painters have worked on Saturday in New York.
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