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. “ wta that the security of a nation lies in the strength and character of ite own ip lw os {bpp people’ It recommends the maintenance of armed forcos sufficient to defond this homisphers from attack by any co bination pf foroign powoxs. It demands faith ape a Nam Rem PTE Tp rT as in an idependont American destiny. This is the policy of tho Amorica First if ert Committee today. It is a policy not of ieclation, but of indopondencos not of dofoat, but of courage. It is a policy that lod thia nation to succoss during the moet trying yoare of our history, and it ia a policy that will icad us to success again. Af Atiiurn Wo have woakoned ourselves for many monthe, till woree, wo pve dividod our own people by this dabbling in Europot ‘8 wars. Khile we should have been concentrating on American defense, we have been forced to, argue over, for- a “F dates Ee er ry dle Spi dened gE | ws eign quarrels. “t must t our eyee and our faith back to our own country be- - ere — ” Rf UI Serre we RTI Map AR EMA ON EET OE CTE le OPE fore it ie too late." And when we do this, a difforent vista opone before us. aren gerne Se Pe A Practically evory difficulty we would face in invading Europe becomss an aesot to us in defending America. Our enemy, and not wo, would then have tho problom of transporting millions of troops across the ocean and landing them on a hostile shore. Thoy, and not we, would have to furnish the convoys to transport guns and trucks and munitions and fuel across threo thousand miles of water. me? battleships and submarines would thon bo fighting close to their home basos. Wo would then do tho bombing from the air, and tho torpedoing at aoa. And if any part of an enemy convoy should evor pase our navy and cur air force, thoy would etill be facod with the guns of our coast.artillory, and bohind then, tho divisions of our army. 4“¢AtHeere The United States is better situated from a military standpoint than any other nation in the world. Even in our present condition of un preparedness, Ro foreign power ig in a position to invade us today. If we concentrate on our : own defenses, and build the strength that thia nation should maintain, no foreign army will ever attempt to Jand en American shores. Lpplance War ie not inevitable for this couwtry. “puch a cleim is defeat ion in the trus eonee No one can make us fight abroad unless we ourselves are willing to do so. No one will what to fight ue here if we arm oursolves as a great nation should be armed. Over a hundred million poople in this nation aro a posed to ontoring ‘the Sey st the principles of Domocracy moan anything at ell, that is reason onough for us to stay stylet If we are forced into a war against the wishes of an overwhelming majority of our people, we will have proved Democracy The time has come when those of us who believe in an independent ameri- euch @ failure at home that there will be little use fighting for it