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Germans, is in its proposed scope and methods world-wide, and therefore an
actual danger, to the United States. Its purposes have been openly proclaimed
and are largely a matter, of record. Its; object is to establish a racial supre-
macy; the overthrow of existing world-order; the direct or indirect enslavement
of all other people; the destruction of or rearrangement of the ways of life, in-
cluding religious worship, except such as may be permitted by the conqueror to
the conquered.

Such a program would not be so vitally dangerous to us except for the
fact that it has already been so successfully prosecuted against so many races
without the slightest provocation—and the further fact of the colossal military
power devoted to the establishment of the plan.

Never before in the history of the world, has military genius succeeded in
bringing into combination so many forces of destruction and enslavement.
Every scientific invention and mechanistic force have been corralled and made
to do service in this onslaught upon the world's civilization. The conditions
are such that, by forestalling time, this Dictator seems to have caught the
world unawares, to the point where he is a distinct threat to the liberties of all
the peoples of the world.

The fact is, and every man, woman and child should be brought to realize
it, that if Hitler and his cohorts are not stopped by the English and the Rus-
sians, he will turn about the moment he has finished them, and start his pro-
claimed intention to "liquidate" the United States.

If Hitler should succeed in defeating Russia and England, he would then
have the raw materials, the work shops, and the shipyards of all Europe, at his
command. By the use of the submarines, the airplanes; the shipping and the
naval vessels he would then control, or could have constructed, he would be in
a position to bring a direct attack upon the United States. Let us have the
wisdom to foresee the serious disadvantage we would labor under, with all our
strength, if compelled to fight alone.

Democracy as we know it here in America is the most wonderful system
of government ever devised, but like all other human achievements, it has its
admitted defects. Possibly its greatest defect in times of emergency, when
decisions must be made instantly »and when national activities must be co-
ordinated quickly, is that it doesn't function as effectively as in peace time.

Only the fact that other nations have engaged the attention of the dic-
tators of Europe may have saved us from even a more direct threat to our
national security than we now face.

We weren't prepared then, but we are, however, whipping our defense in-
dustry into shape at an accelerated gait. With the recognition by everyone
that we are as a Nation in danger, and with the determination on the part of
every American citizen that this threat to our national future will be met,
with each succeeding day and month we shall be better equipped to do what we
possibly could not have done two years ago. This is, to defend this land and
those freedoms which our courageous forefathers entrusted to our care.