494 State Papers and Addresses

backed by immense armies and fanatical leadership. This claim of inherent
superiority in the race under Hitler carries with it the corresponding claim of
the right to control and direct all other races because they are inferior.

Right there is the basic falsity of the Nazi claim in its revolutionary pro-
gram lies the germ of danger to every other race if Hitler and his Germany can
succeed in acquiring sufficient strength. Literally no race, according to that
philosophy, will ever be free from attack, because inherent in that claim is the
idea of German control and forced contribution of the other races—the so-called
inferior races—including our own. Manifestly, the only limit to the time of the
Hitler attack is the convenience and strength of this so-called superior race in
the prosecution of its world revolution.

In the face of all this, there has been a considerable body of contention
to the effect that this was just another war; that furthermore, we were fully
protected by the Atlantic Ocean, and that the conflagration raging in Europe
would soon burn itself out. Those making such contention failed to realize the
nature and purposes of Hitler's program.

They have further failed to realize that the Atlantic Ocean, for the purpose
of war, is no longer three thousands miles wide. The astonishing developments
in science, discovery, and invention during the past four or five decades have
literally dwarfted space and abolished distance. Gasoline, radio, mechanical
development, scientific achievement with the aeroplane and submarine in combi-
nation, have so bridged the ocean that any war on & large scale such as this, is
actually next door.

The time has come for every American man and woman to realize the
instant danger with which he, she and their Country are faced. The time
for plain speaking has also come. We have reached a point in such crisis that
the friends of our Nation are entitled to call the attention of our people to the
fact that every American who is not against Hitler is for Hitler—say what he
will.

We must realize that much of the effort to create disunity amongst us is
being carried on by persons who have motives which are not to the best interests
of our Country. Some of that effort is undoubtedly being made through the
influence and direction of Nazi-German agents. They are already enemies with-
in our gates—and a great many of them were born here.

It will be helpful to us to remember that Quislings are born in America as
well as in Norway, and that not all the Lavals live in France. It is entirely
probable that we have some of them here in America.

The people of France could tell our people something of such things. They
were a democracy, they too had the right, technically, to speak against every-
thing that the government, or at least certain informed elements of the govern-
ment, knew should be done. Today they know what it means not to be free.
Today undoubtedly, many of those who shouted loudest about their rights to
object and obstruct, wish they had sacrificed their own unreasoned claims to
the general good of the country. Truly, France today presents a picture and
points a moral that many residents of this great Democracy might study with
a great deal of profit to themselves and the Country.