Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 January 1942 — Page 5

SDAY, TAN. 5

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (U.

’ P).—Following is the text of President Roosevelt's message

to Congress:

In fulfilling my duty to report upon the state of the union, I am proud to say to you that the spirit

of the American people was never higher than it is today—the union was never more closely knit together—this country was never more determined to face the task before it. The response of the American people has been instanteneous. It will be sustained until our security is assured. Exactly one year ago today I said to this Congress: “When the dictators are ready to make war upon us, they will not wait for an act of war on our part. . . . They—not we—will choose the time and the place and the method of their attack.” We now know their choice of the time: A peaceful Sunday morning—Dec. 7, 1941, We know their choice of the place: An American outpost in the Pacific.

USED HITLER METHOD

We know their choice of the

method: The method of Hitler him- |

self. Japan's scheme of conquest goes back half a century. It was not merely a policy of seeking living room: It was a plan which included the subjugation of all the peoples in the Far East and in the islands of the Pacific, and the domination of that ocean by Japanese military and naval control of the western coasts of North, Central and South America. The development of this ambitious conspiracy was marked by the war against China in 1894; the subsequent occupation of Korea; the war against Russia in 1904; the illegal fortification of the mandated Pacific islands following 1920; the seizure of Manchuria in 1931, and the invasion of China in 1937. A similar policy of criminal conquest was adopted by Italy. The Fascists first revealed their imperial designs in Libya and Tripoli. In 1935 they seized Abyssinia. Their goal was the domination of all

North Africa, Egypt, parts of France,

and the entire Mediterranean world. But the dreams of empire of the Japanese and Fascist leaders were modest in comparison with the gargantuan aspirations of Hitler and his Nazis. Even before they came to power in 1933, their plans for conquest’ had been drawn. Those plans provided for ultimate domination, not of any one section of the world, but the whole earth and all the oceans on it. With Hitler's formation of the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo alliance, all these plans of conquest became a single plan. Under this, in addition to her own schemes of conquest,

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Japan’s role was to cut off our supply of weapons of war to Britain, Russia and China—weapons which increasingly were speeding the day of Hitler's doom. The act of Japan at Pear] Har-

terrify us to such an extent that we would divert our industrial and military strength to the Pacific area, or even to our nental defense. The plan failed in .its purpose. We have not been stunned. We {have not been terrified or confused. | This reassembling- of the seventy|seventh Congress is proof of that; for the mood of quiet, grim resolution which here prevails, bodes ill for those who conspired and collaborated to murder world peace. That mood is stronger than any mere desire for revenge. It expresses the will of the American people to make very certain that the world will never so suffer again. Admittedly, we haye been faced with hard choices. It was bitter, for example, not to be able to relieve the heroic and historic defenders of Wake Island. It was bitter for us not to be able to land a million men and a thousand ships in the Philippine Islands. But this adds only to our determination to see to it that the Stars and Stripes will fly again over Wake and Guam; and that the brave people of the Philippines will be rid of Japanese imperialism; and will live in freedom, security and independence.

OFFENSIVE AT RIGHT TIME

Powerful and offensive actions must and will be taken in proper time. The consolidation of the | united nations’ total war effort against our common enemies is being achieved. That is the purpose of conferences which have been held during the past two weeks in Washington, in Moscow and in Chungking. That is the primary objective of the declaration of solidarity signed in Washington Jan. 1, 1942, by 26 nations united against the Axis powers. Difficult choices may have to be made in the months to come. We will not shrink from such decisions. We and those united with us will make those decisions with courage and determination. Plans have been laid here and in the other capitals for co-ordinated and co-operative action by all the united nations—military action and economic action. Already we have established uni|fied command of land, sea and air |forces in the southwestern Pacific | theater of war, There will be a {continuation of conferences and | consultations among military staffs, so that te plans and operations of leach will fit into a general strategy designed to crush the enemy. We shall not fight isolated wars— each nation going its own way. These 26 nations are united—not in spirit and determination alone, but in the broad conduct of the war in all its phases.

SUPERIOR FORCES GATHER

For the first time since the Japanese and the Fascists and the Nazis started along their bloodstained course of conquest they now face the fact that superior forces are assembling against them. Gone forever are the days when the aggressors could attack and destroy their victims one by one without unity of resistance. We of the united nations will so dispose our forces that we can strike at the common enemy wherever the greatest damage can be done. The militarists in Berlin and Tokyo started this war. But the massed, angered forces of common humanity will finish it. Destruction of the material and spirit@ial centers of civilization—this has been and still is the purpose of Hitler and his Italian and Japanese chessmen. They would wreck the power of the British commonwealth and Russia and China and the Netherlands—and then combine

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all their forces to achieve their ultimate goal, the conquest of the United States. They know that victory for us means victory for freedom. 4 They know. that. vietory for us means victory of the institution of democracy—the ideal of the family, the simple principles of common decency and humanity. They know that victory for us means victory for religion. And they could not tolerate that. The world is too small to provide adequate “living room™ for both Hitler and God. In proof of that, the Nazis have now announced their plan for enforcing their new Ger-

the swastika and the naked sword.

OUR OBJECTIVES CLEAR

Our own objectives are clear; the

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want and freedom from fear everywhere in the world. We shall not stop short of these objectives—nor shall we be sa merely to gain them and then it a day. I know that I speak for American people—and I ave | reason to believe I speak also all .the other peoples who fight wi us—when I say that this time are determined not only to win war, but also to maintain the security of the peace which will follow. But modern methods of warfare make it a task, not only of shooting and fighting, but an even more urgent one of working and producing. = Victory requires the actual weapons of war and the means of transporting them to a dozen points of combat.

MUST PRODUCE FOR ALL

It will not be sufficient for us and the other united . nations to produce a slightly superior supply of munitions to that of Germany, Japan, Italy and the stolen industries in the countries which they have overrun. The superiority of the united nations in munitions and ships must be overwhelming—so overwhelming that the Axis nations can never hope to catch up with it. In order to attain this overwhelming superiority the United States must build planes and tanks and guns and ships to the utmost limit of our national capacity. We have the ability and capacity to produce arms not only for our own forces, but also for the armies, navies and air forces fighting on our side. And our overwhelming superiority of armament must be adequate to put weapons of war at the proper time into the hands of those men in the conquered nations, who stand ready to seize the first opportunity to revolt against their German and Japanese Oppressors, and against the traitors in their own ranks, known by the already infamous name of “Quislings.” As we get guns to the patriots in those lands, they too will fire shots heard round the world. This production of ours in th: United States must be raised far above its present le vels, even though it will mean the dislocation of the lives and occupations of millions of our own people. We must raise our sights all along the production line. Let no man say it cannot be done. It must be done—and we have undertaken to do it. I have just sent a letter of directive to the appropriate departments and agencies of our Government, ordering that immediate steps be taken: 1. To increase our production rate of airplanes so rapifily that in this year, 1942, we shall produce 60,000 planes, 10,000 more than the goal set a year and a half ago. This includes 45,000 combat planes —bombers, dive-bombers, pursuit planes. The rate of increase will be continued, so that next year, 1943, we shall produce 125,000 airplanes, including 100,000 combat planes.

STRESSES HARD TASK

2. To increase our production rate of tanks so rapidly that in this year, 1942, we shall produce 45,000 tanks; and to continue that increase so that next year, 1043, we shall produce 75,000 tanks. 3. To increase our production rate of anti-aircraft guns so rapidly that in this year, 1942, we shall pro-

tinue that increase so that next year, 1943, we shall produce 35,000 anti-aircraft guns. 4. To increase our production rate of merchant ships so rapidly that in this year, 1942, we shall build 8,000,000 deadweight tons as compared with a 1941 production of 1,100,000. We shall continue that increase so that next year, 1943, we shall build 10,000,000 tons. These figures and similar figures for a multitude of other implements of war will give the Japanese and Nazis a little idea of just what they accomplished in the attack on Pearl Harbor. i Our task is hard—our task is unprecedented—and the time is short. We must strain every existing arma-ment-producing facility to the ut-

j most. We must convert every avail-

able plant and tool to war production. That goes all the way from the greatest. plants to the smallest —from the huge automobile industry to the village machine shop. Production for war is based on men and women—the human hands and brains which collectively we call| ich labor. Our workers stand ready to| Which work long hours; to turn out more in a day's work; to keep the wheels turning and the fires burning 24 hours a day, and sefen days a week. They Rulize well that on the speed and efficiency of their work depend

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finish it.”

When Will the War End?—"“There is only one answer to that. It will end just as soon as we make it end, by our combined efforts, our combined strength, our combined determination to fight through and work through until the end—the end of militarism in Ger-

: National Unity—" . . . I am proud to say to you that the spirit of the American people was never higher than it is today— the union was never mere closely knit together—This country was never more deeply determined to facz the solemn tasks before it.” . “ * = . + « We are determined not only to win the war, but also to maintain the security of the peace which will follow.” ” " » U. 8. War Objectives—*" , . . Are clear; the objective of smashing the militarism imposed by war lords upon their enslaved peoples , , . of liberating the subjugated nations . . . establishing and securing freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want and freedom from fear everywhere in the world.” 8 » Axis Aims—“Destruction of the material and spiritual centers of civilization. , . . Their ultimate goal, the conquest of the United

Who Started It?—“The militarists in Berlin and Tokyo started this war. But the massed, angered forces of common humanity will

metals and raw materials—steel, copper, rubber, aluminum, zinc, tin. Greater and greater quantities of them will have to be diverted to war purposes. Civilian use of them will have to be cut further and still further—and, in many cases, completely eliminated. War costs money, so far, we have hardly even begun to pay for it. We have devoted only 15 per cent of our national income to national defense. As will appear in my budget message tomorrow, our war program for the coming fiscal year will cost fifty-six billion dollars or, in other words, more than one-half of the estimated annual national income, This means taxes and bonds and bonds and taxes. It means cutting luxuries and other non-essentials. In a word, it means an “ali-out” war by individual effort and family effort in a united country. ‘ Only this all-out scale of production will hasten the ultimate all-out victory. Speed will count. Lost ground can always be regained—Ilost time never. Speed will save lives; speed will save this nation which is in peril; speed will save our freedom and civilization—and slowness has never been an American characteristic.

NATION MUST BE ON GUARD

As the United States goes into its full stride, we must always be on guard against misconceptions which will arise naturally or which will be planted among us by our enemies. We must guard against complacency. We must not underrate the enemy. He is powerful and cunning—and cruel and ruthless. He will stop at nothing which gives him a chance to kill and to destroy, He has trained his people to believe that their highest perfection is achieved by waging war. For many years he has prepared for this very conflict — planning, plotting, training, arming, fighting. We have already tasted defeat. We may suffer further setbacks. We mug face the fact of a hard war, a long war, a bloody war, a costly war,

WE SHALL HAT AND HIT

We must on the other hand, guard against defeatism. That has been one of the chief weapons of Hitler's propaganda machine—used time and again with deadly results. It will not be used successfully on the American people. We must guard against divisions among ourselves and among all the other united nations. We must be particularly vigilant against racial discrimination in any of its ugly forms. Hitler will try again to breed mistrust and suspicion between one individual and another, one group and another, one race and another one government and another. He will try to use the same technique of falsehood and rumormongering with which he divided France from Britain. He is trying to do this with us even now. But he will find a unity of will and purpose against him, which will persevere until the destruction of all his black designs upon the freedom and safety of the people of the world. We cannot wage this war in a defensive spirit. As our power and our resources are fully mobilized, we shall carry the attack against the enemy—we shall hit him and hit him again wherever and whenever we can reach him. We must keep him far from our shores, for we intend to bring this battle to him on his own home grounds. “ American armed forces must be used at any place in all the world where it seems advisable to engage the forces of the enemy. In some cases these operations will be defensive, in order to protect key positions. In other cases, these operations will be offensive, in order to strike at the common enemy, with a vew to his complete encirclement and eventual total defeat. American armed forces will operate at many points in the Far East. American armed forces will be on all the oceans—helping to guard the essential communications which are vital to the united nations. American land and air ‘and sea forces will take stations in the British Isles—which constitute an essential fortress in this world

a heavy price for freedom. We will pay this price with a will. Whatever the price, it is a thousand times worth it. No matter what our enemies, in their desperation may attempt to do to us—we will say, as the people of London have said, “we can take it.” And what's more, we can give it back—and we will give it back—with compound interest. When our enemies challenged our country to stand up and fight, they challenged each and every one of us. And each and every one of us has accepted the challenge — for himself and for the nation.

DATE OF VICTORY UNCERTAIN

There were only some four hundred United States marines who in the heroic and historic defense of Wake Island inflicted such great losses on the enemy. Some of those men were killed in action; and others are now prisoners of war. When the survivors of that great fight are liberated and restored to their homes, they will learn that a hundred and thirty million of their fellow citizens have been inspired to render their own full share of service and sacrifice. Our men on the fighting fronts have already proved that Americans today are just as rugged and just as tough as any of the heroes whose exploits we celebrate on the Fourth of July. Many people ask, “when will this war end?” There is only one answer to that, It will end just as soon as we make it end, by our combined efforts, our combined strength, our combined determination to fight

through and work through until the end—the end of militarism in Germany and Italy and Japan. Most certainly we shall not settle for less. That is the spirit in which discussions have been conducted during the visit of the British Prime Minister to Washington, Mr, Churchill and I understand each other, our motives and our purposes. Together, during the past two weeks, we have faced squarely the major military and economic problems of this greatest world war, All in our nation have been cheered by Mr. Churchill's visit. We have been deeply stirred by his great message to us. We wish him a safe return to his home. He is welcome in our midst, now and in days to come. We are fighting on the same side with the British people, who fought alone for long, terrible months, and withstood the enemy with fortitude and tenacity and skill. We are fighting on the same side with the Russian people who have seen the Nazi hordes swarm up to the very gates of Moscow, and who with almost superhuman will and

'lcourage have forced the invaders

back into retreat.

ENEMIES CALLED BRUTAL

We are fighting on the same side}

as the brave people of China who for four and a half long years have withstood bombs and starvation and have whipped the invaders time and again in spite of superior Japanese equipment and arms, We are fighting on the same side as the indomitable Dutch. We are fighting on the same side as all the other Governments in exile, whom Hitler and all his armies and all his gestapo have not been able to conquer. But we of the united nations are not making all this sacrifice of human effort and human lives to return to the kind of world we had after the last World War. We are fighting today for security, for progress and for peace, not onyl for ourselves, but for all men, not only for one generation but for all generations. We are fighting to cleanse the world of ancient evils, ancient ills. Our enemies are guided by brutal cynicism, by upholy contempt for the human race. We are inspired by a faith which goes back through all the years to the first chapter of the book of Genesis: “God created man in his own image.” We on our side are striving to be true to that devine heritage. We as our fathers have

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