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from Newfoundland to British Guiana.

...these bases threw a steel wall

around the Caribbean.

These bases gave new safety

to the Panama Canal.

It was now clear to the aggressors

that we were conscience...

...of the threat they represented

to our country.

Mr. Berle, Assistant Secretary of State, will tell

us how they got together and tried to scare us of.

From 1936 on, it became increasingly

clear to the world,

...that Germany, Italy and Japan,

were pursuing a common...

...pattern of aggression, both

in Europe and in the Far East."

On September 27, 1940,

...these three powers signed the

so-called Pact of Berlin."

Or Tripartite Pact."

A treaty of far-reaching alliance.

By that treaty, it was provided that the three

countries would assist one another with,

...all political, economic

and military means...

...when one of the powers were attacked, note

particularly the use of the word "attacked"...

...by a power not then involved in the European

war, or in the Chinese/Japanese conflict."

The last of these provisions were aimed

directly at the United States."

Tokyo celebrates.

Rome cheered.

Berlin heiled itself hoarse.

It was clear now that the 3 axis's

countries stood against us.

More anxious than ever, we watched the

life and death struggle for the possession...

...of the skies over Britain.

Despite the propaganda and

confusion in the recent months,

...it is now obvious that England

is losing the war.

England will not only survive,

England will win!

So, when we were asked:

Should we keep out of war or

aid Britain even at the risk of war?

Aid Britain even at the risk of war 68%

Thus the march of conquest at the

self-termed Master Racists

...changed our national attitude from 1936

...when only one out of twenty Americans

thought we would be involved in war.

To 1941, when 14 out of 20 Americans were

will to risk war, if war was necessary...

...to insure axis defeat.

I ask this Congress for authority and funds,

...sufficient to manufacture additional

munitions and war supplied of many kinds,

...to be turned over to those nations

who are now in actual war,

...with aggressor nations."

Our useful and immediate role is

to act as an arsenal...

...for them as well as for ourselves."

We shall send in ever-increasing

Numbers of ships,

...planes, tanks, guns. That is

our purpose, and our pledge."

By an overwhelming majority,

Congress passed Lend-lease.

Bill number 1776. Another

Declaration of independence,

...independence from tyranny, 1941 style.

On April 6, 1941, the Nazi juggernaut

overran into Yugoslavia and Greece.

On June 22, 1941 the success-crazed Nazis took

their longest step toward world conquest.

Without any declaration of war,

they blitzed into Russia.

We were determined not to let down

any nations defending themselves...

...against unprovoked attack.

So we extend land-lease

to these new victims.

Now the land-lease products of

our factories were being unloaded...

...in the bombed ports of Great Britain,

...at the Red Sea Ports for the British in Africa.

Lend-lease was being hauled over

the Burma road to China.

Lend-lease was piling up in Murmansk

and Iran for Russia.

Why did we supply war materials to the countries

defending themselves from against axis aggression?

Was it for our natural sympathies for

people unwilling to lose their freedoms?

Was it our ancient antagonism to conquerors

imposing their rule on others by force?

Yes partly. But principally it was

because the American people,

...had become certain, that they were on

the list of free nations to be conquered.

"Two worlds are in conflict - two philosophies

of life. One of these two worlds must break asunder"

And we were the leading example of that free world

that Hitler was committed to breaking asunder.

What would have been our defensive position

if the aggressors had succeeded in...

...conquering Britain, Russia, and China?

German conquests of Europe and Africa,

...would bring all their raw-materials,

plus their entire industrial development...

...under one control.

Of the 2 Billion people in the world,

the Nazis would rule roughly one-quarter

The 500 million people of Europe and Africa,

forced into slavery to labor for Germany.

German conquest of Russia, would

add the vast raw materials...

...and the production facilities of

another of the worlds industrial areas.

And of the world's people, another 2 hundred million

would be added to the Nazi labor pile.

Japanese conquest of the Orient.

Would pour into their factories the almost

unlimited resources of that area.

And of the people's of the earth,

a thousand million...

...would come under their rule.

Slaves for their industrial machines.

We in North and South America would be left with the

raw material of three-tenths of the earth's surface.

Against the axis with the resources of seven-tenths.

We would have one industrial region,

against their three industrial regions.

We would have one-eighth of the world's

Population against their seven-eighths.

If we, together with the nations of

North and South America,

...could mobilize 30 millions

fully equipped men,

...the axis could mobilize 200 million.

Thus an Axis victory in Europe and Asia

would leave us alone and virtually surrounded.

Facing enemies ten times stronger than ourselves.

These are the reasons that lead us,

the American people

to change the Neutrality Act.

To send aid to Britain, to Russia, to China,

...to make ourselves the arsenal of democracy.

These are the reasons why now,

the first American troops...

...set forth into the Atlantic.

To occupy new bases in Greenland and Iceland.

With the consent of their local governments.

In our hands, bases of defense,

in Nazis hands, bases of death.

The Germans opened unrestricted submarine

warfare.

If today, the Navy should make

secure the seas,

...for the delivery of our

munitions to Great Britain,

...it will render as great

a service to our country,

...and to the preservation

of American freedom,

...as it has ever rendered in all

its glorious history."

"We want those cargoes protected."

An aroused Congress repealed the entire

Neutrality Act.

We armed our merchants. And for the first time

they steamed into combat zones to deliver land-lease.

While this was going on in the Atlantic,

the Japs, by so-called agreement...

...with the proper government of

defeated France, moved into Indo China.

There were now only two threats to their

plan for their conquest of greater East Asia.

First was their northern neighbor, Russia.

The only military power within striking

distance of Japan.

The Nazis were taking care of Russia.

The second threat to Japanese conquest was us.

Japanese southward expansion was too dangerous to

attempt with our bases still standing in the

Philippines and our supply lines

open to Wake, to Midway and Hawaii.

We were in their way, we had to be

removed, but the Japanese way.

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