Mission to Moscow Page #14

and you've got

to call a halt, joe.

If you never do

another thing in your life,

you've already done

more than your share.

I can't quit now.

There's too much at stake.

Why, the whole world-

i know all about that,

but you've got to

take care of yourself.

Please, this time

do as i say.

I talked to the president

a little while ago

and i told him i'd take

a trip around the country:

Chicago,

new york, toronto,

even as far as

the coast.

You can't be serious.

There's many things that have

to be cleared up about russia.

But the doctor told me

that if you don't stop now-

doctors

are overcautious.

They're worse than

lawyers.

Marjorie, we're all going to

be in this war before long:

You, the children,

all of us.

I'm just getting

a little head start.

If you go along with me,

i'll be all right.

When do we start?

My gloves, dear.

Here they are.

Excuse me, mr. Davies,

what's your opinion?

Is there any chance

of russia

making a separate

peace with germany?

Well, the plain answer is

that premier stalin

and the soviet government

have solemnly pledged

to fight to the end-

to make no separate peace

with hitler.

The soviet union

keeps its word.

Russia's as good

as licked.

She'll never last out

the summer.

The government throwing

away our tax money

sending them

war supplies.

You should be thankful it's

only taxes you're spending.

I say, gentlemen, not only

can we do business with hitler,

but we can make a nice

profit doing so.

And we can do the same

thing with japan.

Let's keep her happy,

and we'll keep

a good customer.

He's absolutely right.

I'm entirely

in agreement.

Naturally,

we're sorry for china,

but asia's

none of our affair.

We send our sympathy to china

and our oil

and scrap iron to japan.

The russian people

didn't want to fight a war.

They made every

possible effort to avoid it,

but it came to them

as it might come to us

or to any other peaceful nation.

They need our help,

our guns, our planes.

And if hitler

wins this war,

how will he feel

about the united states

when he knows we have

aided his enemies?

It's wrong, it is unwise,

unchristian for us

to refuse help to

the courageous people

of the soviet union.

Tonight, before moscow,

leningrad, and sevastopol,

they're holding the very

ramparts of our civilization.

We've seen france fall,

england smashed and helpless,

and now there can be no doubt

that russia's

reeling towards defeat.

It's going

to be hitler's europe,

and i say, "what of it?"

The supreme objective

of axis propaganda

in this country

is to set us against

england, france, and russia.

And there are those among us,

some sincere, honest,

but foolish-

some paid by the axis

who unconsciously

or with criminal intent

are doing just that.

This conscription bill

is unconstitutional

and unnecessary.

The war situation does not

justify any such disturbance

of our private or economic life.

Let's not

delude ourselves!

No one is safe as long

as the power-crazed rulers

of germany and japan

are loose in the world!

If the russians

had any sense,

they'd negotiate

a peace.

You can't negotiate with evil.

Russia will never stop fighting

its fascist foe.

They will defend their cities.

They will fight

in their streets,

in their forests

behind the german lines,

and over them in the air.

They will yield nothing

to the invader but death.

What's he in

such a sweat about?

We got a couple

of oceans, ain't we?

As i read of

the millions of russians dead,

their countless towns

which lie in ruins,

then i say to myself

and i say to you

there, but for the grace

of god, goes america.

There would go america

if we listened to

the isolationists and defeatists

who still believe

that america can be safe

as an island of

christian individualism

in a sea of

totalitarian dictatorship!

How do we know that

we can trust russia?

Sit down.

Yeah, how about

poor little finland?

This gentleman

has asked the question:

How about finland.

My friend, you have only

heard one side of the story.

I'll tell you the other.

I suppose you're gonna

tell us she attacked russia.

Russia knew she was going

to be attacked by hitler,

so the soviet leaders

asked finland's permission

to occupy strategic positions

to defend herself

against german aggression.

She offered to give finland

twice as much territory

in exchange,

but hitler's friend

mannerheim refused,

and the red army moved in.

That's why, my friend.

I wonder why these things

have been kept from us?

What about russia's air force?

One of our aviation experts says

their planes are all obsolete.

The gentleman you mentioned

saw only what russia

wanted him to see.

Russia has a powerful air force

and ready to defend herself

against any aggressor.

Why didn't stalin

make a deal with hitler?

For self-protection.

He was left standing

alone against hitler,

and he stalled

because his army wasn't ready.

What did russia

ever do for us?

Russia has given us time.

Time? Time for what?

No nation

is threatening us.

We're at peace.

Welcome to your new

post, mr. Ambassador.

Oh, yes. The tables

are turned.

It is good to see you.

Hold it right

there, please.

Thank you.

My friend, it has come.

You, too, are at war.

Yes. It's

a terrible thing,

but since

it's had to come,

thank god we're

on the same side:

The right side.

And now, united among ourselves

and together with

great britain, russia, china,

and all free nations,

we face a new mission,

a much greater mission.

First and foremost

is the task of winning this war,

of defeating that ruthless

group of evil powers

who have conspired

to enslave the world.

With full faith in the outcome,

we shall not fail or forget

those gallant people

who first met the blazing fury

of the nazi hordes.

Never in history have there been such

masses of men and mechanized power

as those which hitler

hurled over the borders

of the soviet union in violation

of the pledged honor

of his government

and his people.

In brutal waves of blood,

the juggernaut of germany

rolled in high speed,

scorching the earth

on the road to moscow.

The jubilant fuehrer proclaimed

his greatest victory-

the red army-

as annihilated,

but the wind of his boasts

reaped a whirlwind of disaster.

At the gates of moscow

and leningrad,

on the frozen fields

of the ukraine,

and within the shambles

of stalingrad,

the russian people stood firm in

the crisis of our darkest hour.

With millions of lives,

they paid for precious time...

time for america

to rearm the united nations,

time for great britain

to reform her lines,

time for the fascist tide

to shatter its strength

against the iron wall

of human freedom.

Slowly but surely

the wave of evil forces

recedes across the earth,

leaving in its wake the

wreckage of fascist barbarism

and its long reign of terror.

With victory, our next great

task of rebuilding a free world

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