of Governor Herbert R. O'Conor 805

any threats, and to wage all-out war on a scale never before attempted or even
conceived. To accomplish this and let me say this just as forcibly as it is with-
in my power, we must have complete unity of mind and heart, and purpose,
among all our citizens.

Our Nation must function as a unit. Our strength is to be measured rind
judged by the solidarity of the central life-line. Sporadic energy and isolated
examples of brilliancy are not enough. We know from past record that the
American sodier is brave, that our military strategists have ranked with the
greatest of all times.

To this very day the exploits and maneuvers of Stonewall Jackson are used
in text books for training officers all over the world. The indomitability of
Washington, who conducted and won an% eight-year war for independence
against incrediable odds; the tenacity of Grant, who said "We'll fight it out on
this line if it takes all winter", the humanity of Lee, whose barefooted, half-
starved soldiers literally worshipped him, whether in victory or defeat; —these
examples are proverbial over the wide-world of American military leadership
and military genius.

We can feel confident, that the American love of freedom, the hatred of
tryanny, the will to do-or-die, if you will—that these things are still quick in
brilliant leadership in the field and on the seas - yes! Wake Island, Guadal-
canal, Midway, the recent North African campaign proclaims, that! But
American hearts today, and will not fail us in this emergency. Brave soldiers—
these alone will not insure our National safety. We must have solidarity at
the core. We must have, in a single pharse, unity of purpose throughout the
whole frame and substance of our National being.

Or let us take this matter from another viewpoint. It is not necessary to
prove that we are living in a mechanized age. The automobile, the airplane,
the telephone, the radio, are words so commonplace they are on the tongues of
every child.

Our peace-time ways of living are geared to machinery—and the way of
living having been panzerized, so to speak. Here again we have led the world.
Call the roll of American inventors—Fulton, Edison, the Wright Brothers—as
many as you wish. American genius has expressed itself clearly and re-
peatedly. The skill of free American Labor has out-produced the sweat shops
of the world. It has done so in peace—it is doing so again, in war.

Confidence—yes! The American talent for invention—the American skill at
mass production—these we are proud of; these we can count on.

Are they sufficient unto themselves? Candidly and for the record, they
are not! No nation can survive without Unity of Purpose.

No, it is not enough to have military valor, great leadership, brilliant in-
vention and skilled production. Solidarity at the core! Unity of Purpose!
There is our strength—that is our salvation. Any one works for it is working
for America. An/one who hinders and obstructs it, is aiding Hitler and toward
the possible downfall of this citadel of human liberty and decency.