734 State Papers and Addresses

that the American people won't wake up until the enemy bombs crash in our
midst. It will be too late then to save the precious lives of our fellow citizens
and to safeguard American property.

The proper spirit will be shown if we don't complain and grumble about
things which are bound to happen. Instead of criticising because accused
saboteurs are not sentenced before they are found guilty, let people remember
that ours is a Government of law and not a Government of men. While
Hitler's way is to railroad accused people to their death let the contrast be
shown that America allows the fullest use of all legal processes even to the
Supreme Court itself.

All that has been said and all that can be said, adds up to one simple
problem: Is America, with its guarantees to every citizen, high or low,
black or white, worth defending? Do our people value sufficiently our Na-
tional birthright - the passion for liberty ? You know full well that such a
passion is just as strong in the American today as it was in the Pilgrims on
the Mayflower. The patriotism of the American boys today in Australia,
in Northern Ireland and in Iceland is just as fervid as was the patriotism of
their forebears of '76 and 1812.

Our people cannot forget the thrilling stories of our American heroes
at Midway and the Coral Sea. This spirit which animated American boys in
May, in June and in July, some of whom have made the supreme sacrifice,
still lives in the breasts of Americans whether they be in the Philipines, Africa
or right here in Baltimore, Western or Southern Maryland or on the Eastern
Shore.

Our Nation won't lose because it is impossible to think that the American
spirit can be killed. Democracy, with its rights and guarantees, that have
been the life's blood of our people for1 hundreds of years, is so dear to us that
our people will sacrifice everything rather than lose it.

Inspired by the spirit of National Unity and of resolute determination
that will be shown throughout the width and breadth of this Country, we
can look ahead with assurance to a day of victory not too long away. That
victory may not be soon, but when this war is over, America will not be under
the whip of the Dictator. While there is life in any American, slavery will
never be imposed upon him.

With aims dedicated to the ideals of right and justice for all mankind,
and with no selfish purpose toward the possession of any other nation, we
can lift up our eyes, unashamed, on this, the day of the Lord who disposes
all our efforts, and ask Him, as with one voice, in the words of the National
creed, the inspiring hymn "America. "

"Protect us by Thy might,
Great God, our King!"