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“ (2) That the sweep of olde«fashioned despotism in new-fashioned totalitarian garb dces constitute e thrert to us, to our ideals and our stratesic security--a fect which isolotion- ists in effect concede when they call for arming to the hilt. (3) Thet it is supreme folly to say that we prefer to meet this menece on cur own soil or as cles¢ as possible, and evove all to meet it alone, without allics because allies ere imperfoct pesple. (4) Thet wisdom, on the contrary, dictates keering it et a distence and contribution to its frustration before it can sweep the rest of the world, before we bring on oursolves the quear satisfaction of fighting under the worst odds, with the minimum chance cf bringing into being allies waom then we should desptretely want end essiduously seek, with no regerd for their imperfections. {5) That ell the risks to our institutions which isolationists picture to us cs a consequence of standing firm would be vestly grenter, not less, if we adopted their program of just postponing the firm stand. A war fought alone, after the crash cf other resisters, would be far more likely to last for years and yeers. The risk cf lesinst cur own demcerney woule be far, for crester if we backed down now and then had to maintain through first, a “hot peace", and through subsequontly e very long war a military economy end psychology. Iosubmit thet the poriod cf ecanfusion, bickering, uncer- tainty, humilietion and feer--the period ef "open house" for the fomentcation of passion and bitterness betweon groups by these whose interest it would be to soften us-- is Dy nll cdds the mest Gsngerous of the prospects and risks. Fellow Americans, I have aspersed the motives or the cherecter ef nobody. , I heve tried net to meke, and I think I heve not msde, any apron] to class ocr grceup or rociel cr religious or any other prejudice. I have talked briefly and telked solely cbout ideas that are in the debete, and about the teeticse-sore of which seer to me very urwise--in the prepescndizing of then. I think ths situation is serious, that the things ct stake for America ore ruch too great end the hour toc far advanced, to stny divided longer. . I think the time is te clese our ranks, to stand firm, to put Ancricn resily first, even cbove our lesser differences, now, not in 1943, And I profess to you thet I think it neither es 2 kneve nor as n dupe cf the British, the Jows, cr Recsevelt. (END } (Brondeast Sundsy, Septomber 14, 1941)