Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 July 1943 — Page 9

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WASHINGTON. July 29 it stolen from them by the Fascists

ep). he + ei. and the Nazis. r text of Presi In every country conquered by the

dent Roosevelt's radio address Nazis the Fascists or the Japanese last night follows:" militarists, the people have been re-

. .,.duced to the st < sl Over a year and a half ago I said € Situs of, Slaves of

chattels, to the congress: It is our determination to restore “The militarists in Berlin. Rome these conquered peoples to the digand Tokyo started this war. but Nity of human beings. masters of the massed, angered forces of com- their own fate, entitled to freedom mon humanity will finish it.” of speech, freedom of religion, That prophecy is in the process freedom from want, freedom from of being fulfilled. fear. The massed, angered forces a common humanity are on the that promise.

march. They are going forward— I am sorry If I step on the toes on the Russian front in the vast of those Americans who. playing

Pacific into Burope— party politics at home. call that

of We have started to make good on

area, and

§Sonverging upon their ultimate ob- Kind of foreign policy “crazy altru-

ism” and ‘“starryv-eved dreaming.”

jectives, Berlin and Tokyo. Meanwhile, the war in Sicily and

The first crack in the axis has i comes The criminal, corrupt fascist Italy goes on. It must 20 on, ang ime in Italy is going to pieces will go on, until the Italian people The pirate philosophy of the realize the futility of continuing to Fascists and Nazis cannot stand ad- fSht In a lost cause—a cause to versity. : . of the united nations—on sea and heir wholehearted approval land, and in the air—has been ap- Support. plied in the right place and at the It is a little ver a year since we right time. planned the North African camHitler refused to send sufficient Paign. It is six months since we help to save Mussolini In fact. Planned the Sicilian campaign, Hitler's troops in Sicily stole the i

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The military superiority which the people of Italy never gave |

It’s ‘Unconditional Surrender’ Broadcast

have heard some people say that armies, under the leadership of the army and navy and air forces Marshal Joseph Stalin. can never get along well together—, With a nation, which. in saving that real co-operation between them itself is thereby helping to save is impossible. Tunisia and Sicily all the world from the Nazi menace, have given the lie, once and for this country should always be glad all, to these narrow-minded preju- to be a good neighbor and a sincere dices. friend in the world of the future. The dauntiess fighting spirit of In the Pacific we are pushing the the British people in this war has Japs around from the Aleutians to been expressed in the historie words New Guinea. There, too, we have and deeds of Winston Churchill—'{aken the initiative—and we are and ‘the world knows how the not going to let go &f it. American people feel about him. It becomes clearer and « = that the attrition, the FFEE RATIONING ENDS’ down process against the Japanese = a i es ___'ls working. The Jape have lost more planes and more ships than Ahead of us are much bigger they have been able to replace, fights. We and our allies will go. The continuous and energetic into them as we went into Sicily— prosecution of the war of attrition together, And we shall carry on to- will drive the Japs back from their over-extended line running from

gether. Burma and Siam and the Straits Today our production of ships is at po almost unbelievable. This year we settlements through the Nether

clearer whittling | ‘co

ate producing over 19 million tons lands Indies to eastern New Guinea

of merchant shipping and next year and the Solomons, four production will be over 21 mil- — Sn ——— lion tons. { PACIFIC STRENGTH GROWS And in addition to our shipments across the Atlantic we must realize. that in this war, we are operating We have good reason to believe

in the Aleutians, in the distant that their shipping and their air parts of the southwest Pacific, in power cannot support such outposts.

fuel and food, as indeed it is for its manpower, on the American people in civilian clothes in the offices and in the factories and on the farms at home. The same kind of careful plan-/ ning that gained victory in North Africa and Sicily is required if we are to make victory an enduring reality and do our share in building the kind of peaceful world which will justify the sacrifices made in this war, The united

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nations are

stantially agreed on the general ob-

jectives for the post-war world. | They are also agreed that this is not | the time to engage in an international discussion of all the terms of peace and all the details of the fu-| ture. We must not relax our pressure on the enemy hy taking time out! to define every boundary and settle | every political controversy in every | part of the world. The all-important thing now is! to get on with the war—and to win | it. While concentrating on military | victory, we are not neglecting the | planning of the things to come, the freedoms which we know will make | for more decency and greater Jus-

definite action their special problems.

The least to which they are en-|

titled, it seems to me, is something like this: 1. Mustering-out pay to every member of the armed forces and merchant marine when he or she is honorably discharged, large enough in each case to cover a reasonable period of time between his discharge and the finding of a new job. 2, In case no job is found after (Continued on Page 10)

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OLD PAPER BOXES AID U-BOAT RAID

Allied bombers, smashing sube marines in the North Atlantic, are being equipped with ammunition and supplies delivered in Victory containers, made from used paper boxes, bags, heavy wrapping paper, [and all forms of waste paper. Due to the shortage of wood pulp, waste | paper is now used as a substitute (in the manufacture of essential war equipment. Flatten out boxes, stack newspapers and loose waste basket paper into neat bundles, To sell your salvage, or give it to | charitable or other organizations, [telephone a collector at MA rkes 3321. bs ——

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Many sweathearts are wearing diamonds given them by their loved ones now an the fight

Bn ing front. They are the most cherished posses.

sions they have. Be sure

“Ttalians’ motor equipment, leaving WHERE GASOLINE GOES

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[Italian soldiers so

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Once again the Germans betrayed! I confess that I am of an impatheir Italian allies, as they had tient disposition, but I think that I done time and again on the Rus- understand, and that most people sian front and in the long retreat understand, the amount of time from Egypt. through Libya and necessary to prepare for any major Tripoli, to the fina! surrender in military or naval operation. We Tunisia, cannot just pick up the telephone Mussolini came to the reluctant and order a new campaign to start conclusion that the “jig twas up:” the next week he rould see the shadow of the For example. behind the invasion

jong arm of justice

‘NO TRUCK WITH FASCISM But he and hic fascist gang will be brought to book, and punithed for their crimes against humanity. No criminal will be allowed to escape by the expedient of “resignation.” Our terms to Italy are still the same as our terms to Germany and Japan—“unconditional surrender.” We will have no truck with fascism in any way, shape or manner. We will permit no vestige of fascism to remain. Eventually Italy will reconstitute herself. It will be the people of Italy who will do that choosing their own government in accordance with the basic democratic principles of liberty and equality, In the meantime, the united nations will not follow the pattern set by Mussolini and Hitler and the Japanese

for the treatment of occupied coun-

tries—the pattern of pillage and starvation. We are already helping the Italian people in Sicily. With their cordial co-operation, we are ectahlishing and maintaining security

forces of North Africa were thousands of ships and planes guarding the long, perilous sea lanes. carrying the men, the equipment and the supplies to the point of attack. And behind all these were the railroad lines and highways that carried the men and the munitions to the ports of embarkation— There were the factories and the mines and the farms that turned out the materials—there were the training camps where the men learned how to perform the strange and difficult and dangerous tasks which were to meet them on the beaches and in the geserts and the mountains, All this had to be repeated in the attack on Sicily, Here the factor of air attack was added for we could use North Africa as the base for softening up the landing places and lines of defense in Sicily, and the lines of supply in Italy. It- is interesting for us to realize that every Flving Fortress that bombed harbor installations at Naples from its base in North Africa required 1110 gallons of gasoline for each single mission, and that this is the equal of about 375 “A" ration tickets—enough gas to drive

, nd order—we are dissolving the YOur car five times across this con-

rrganizations which have kept them under Fascist tyranny—we are pro-

tinent, You will better understand vour

President Roosevelt , , . The military superiority of the united nations—on sea and land and in the air—has been applied in the right place and at the right time,

carried 160.0006 men Americans, British, Canadians and French-to-gether with 14000 vehicles, 600

India and off the shores of South America. in the Pacific is constantly growing. For several months we have been If the Japanese are basing their losing fewer ships by sinkings, and future plans for the Pacific on a we have been destroying more and long period in which they will be more U-boats. We hope this will permitted to consolidate and excontinue. But we cannot be sure. ploit their conquered resources, they We must not lower our guard for had better start revising their plans one single instant. now. I give that to them merely One tangible result of our great as a helpful suggestion. \nerease In merchant shin We are delivering planes and which will be good news to | ns vital war supplies for the heroic at home—is that tonight we gare

Our naval, land and air strength tice throughout the world.

‘NO APPLE SELLING'

| | Among many other things we i today, laying plans for the return to civilian life of our gallant men and women in the armed services. They must not be demobilized into | an environment of inflation and un- | employment, to a place on a bread |

armies of Generalissimo Chiang line or on a corner selling apples. | We must, this time, have plans

tanks and 1800 guns, This initial force was every day and every night by thousands of reinforcements.

able td terminate the rationing of followed coffee. We also expect that within a short time we shall get greatly increased allowances of sugar, Our air supply line from India ; Those few Americans who grouse to oi across enemy Serriiary & RE n and complain about the inconveni- continues despite attempted JapaCASUALTIES ARE LOW ences of life here in the United nese interference, een TT States should learn some lessons We have seized the initiative from The meticulous care with which from the civilian populations of our the Japanese in the air over Burma the operation in Sicily was planned allies—Britain, China, Russia—and and now enjoy superiority. has paid dividends. For our casual- of all the lands occupied by our; We are bombing Japanese comties in men, ships and material have common enemies. munications, supply dumps, and been low—in fact, far below our The heaviest and most decisive bases in China, Indo-China and estimate. fighting today is going on in Russia. Burma. All of us are proud of the superb I am glad that the British and we, But, we are still far from our " : i have been able to contribute some-' main objectives in the war ageinst skill and courage of the officers and what to the striking power of the Japan, Russian armies. Let

Kai-shek, and we must do more at all costs,

men who have conducted and are conductiing this operatioin, The toughest resistance developed on the front of the British 8th army, | which included the Canadians,

far we of our {objectives in the European theater, |We are pushing forward to occui ~ |pation of positions which in time But that is no new experience for In 1941-1942 the Russians were will enable us to attack the Japas that magnificent fighting force] ho retire without breaking, to nese islands themselves from the which has rhade the Germans PaY move many of their war plants north, from the south, from the a heavy price for each hour of de from western Russia far into the east and from the west, lay in the final victory. | interior, to stand together with comThe American 7th army, after & siete unanimity in the defense of| stormy landing on the exposed their homeland. beaches of southern Sicily, swept! The success of the Russian armies with record speed across the island. shown that it is dangerous te inte Paleiihn. Foi Jaa of | make prophecies about them--a faet we are succeeding greatly on the troops this was their frst battle x . experience but have carried forcibly hrought home te that mystic fighting front, we are failing mis-

themselves like strategie intuition, Herr *T2DIV on the home front. This is

us remember how

a Were, a year ago from an ‘PUSHING JAPS AROUND

ON THE HOME FRONT You have heard it said that while

they

veterans, master of

ready--instead of waiting to do a hasty, inefficient, and ill-considered | job at the last moment. I have assured our men in the armed forces that the American people would not let them down when the war is won, I hope that the congress will help in carrying out this assurance, for obviously the executive branch of the government cannot do it alone. | May the congress do its duty in this

(regard, The American people will |.

insist on fulfilling this American |

obligation to the men and women

in the armed fofves who are win-

ining this war for us. | Of course, the returning soldier and sailor and marine are a part of the problem of demobilizing the rest | of the millions of Americans who have been working and living in a | war economy since 1941, | That larger objective of reconverting war<time America to aj peace-time basis is one for which |

{your government is laying plans to |

be submitted to the congress for action, But the members of the armed forces have been compelled to make greater economic sacrifice and every other kind of sacrifice than

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And we must give credit for the co-ordination of the diverse forees

another of those immaturities—a the rest of us, and are entitled to

Hitler, false slogan easy to state but untrue =

The short-lived German offiensive.

viding them with the necessities of Part in the war—and what gasoline life until the time comes when they rationing means—if you multiply can fully provide for themselves, this by the gasoline needs of thou-

ete tee

_ sands of planes and hundreds of

thousands of jeeps. trucks and tanks

in the field, and for the planning of launched early this month. was a the whole campaign, to the wise and desperate attempt to bolster the

Men, Women! Old at skillful leadership of General Eisen- morale of the German people. The

For, the longer this war goes on

in the essential facts. |

hower,

the clearer it becomes that no one Russians were not fooled by this. can draw a blue pencil down the 40), 50, 60! Get Pep \ . |

now serving overseas. x I think that the personal convenIndeed, the people in Sicily today ience of the individual or the inare rejoicing in the fact that, for dividual family back home here in the first time in years, they are per- the United States will appear somemitted to enjoy the fruits of their/ what less important when I tell you own labors—they can eat what they that the initial assault force on themselves grow instead of having'Sicily involved 3009 ships which

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Admiral Cunningham, General They went ahead with their own| middle of a page and call one side Alexander and Air Marshal Tedder plan for attack—plans which co- “the fighting front” and the other have been towers of strength in ordinate with the whole united na- side “the home front." The two of handling the complex details of tions’ offensive strategy. [them are inexorably tied together. naval, ground and air activities. The world has never seen greater | Every combat division, every naval You have heard some peoples say devotion, determination and self- | task force, every squadron of fightthe British and the Americans can sacrifice than have been displayed ing planes is dependent for its

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