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Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21372, 17 March 1941, Page 7

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| AMERICA DETERMINED | DEMOCRACY’S ARSENAL “ JOB WORTH WHILE ” ‘United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Cony right) WASHINGTON. March 11 ! Continuing his speech, Mr Roose- , velt, said:— “Our country is going to be what our people have proclaimed it must be—the arsenal of democracy. Our ; country is going to play its full part, • and when the dictatorships disinte--1 grate—and pray God that will be ' sooner than any of us now dares to hope—then our country must con- , tinue to play its great part in the period of world reconstruction. I “We believe that the rallying-cry I of the dictators, their boasting about 1 a master race, will prove to be pure j stuff and nonsense. There never has ! been, there is not now, and there never will be, any race of people fit to serve as masters over their fel- | low men. ! “The world has no use for any | nation which, because of its size or because of its military might, asserts its right to goose-step to world power over other nations or other races,” the President concluded. “We believe that any nationality, no matter how small, has an inherent right to its own nationhood. We believe that

men and women of such nations, no matter what their size, can, through the processes of peace, serve themselves and serve the world by protecting the common man’s security, improve the standards of healthful living, and provide markets for manufacture and for agriculture. Through that kind of peaceful service, every nation can increase its happiness, banish the terrors of war and abandon man’s inhumanity to j man. j “Never in all our history have j Americans faced a job so well worth ! while. May it be said of us, in the days to come, that our chlidren and j our children’s children rise up and • call us blessed.” Mr Willkie’s Hopes Mr Wendell Willkie was also a ! guest at the dinner. | Later he commented: “The Presii dent enumerated well America’s asi pirations. We all pray he meets the j opportunity of becoming the greati est statesman of his generation—for he must be, if democracy is to be saved.”