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7 Director, March 7, 1941 Paze 4. "This is a war between two systems of government, neither of which ia a democrecy, one of which ia rather a monarchy and the other an imperialist nation, I can hardly believe that the sub- jects of India or other British territories can call themselves citizens of a democracy, and I kmow that the fine veople of Ireland kmow what kind of democracy England gave them. (Applause) Certainly, they don't believe in democracy, and I say here that I am not willine to sacrifice any American boys to save the British Empire. Nor am I willing to establish Hitlerism here in order to try to destroy it 3,000 miles away. Be careful of a man who hates dictators so much that he wants to become one himself, They say this 4e a war to eliminate dictatorships. Let's see what that Means. The first thing would be to meet Adolf Hitler and defeat him and that wouldn't be a simple thing: then Japan and certainly that wouldn't be an afternoon tee varty and then after we whipped Germeny and Japan we would have te meet the South American dic- tatore (maybe some of the boya in Washington wouldn't call them that); so you can see it's a pretty good task that they are ask- ing us to start upon to clean up the dictatorships in the war and make the world safe for democracy. "The defeat of Hitler would not eliminate dictatorshins, another would come to take Hitler's place, Those who caused this wor are those who signed the treaty at Verssilles; they created Nazism. Don't be fooled: whoever wins this war won't write a level peace treaty for anybody. Dictatorships are not caused by men; they are caused by events and conditions, The elimination of men doesn't mean the elimination of dictatorships. They say thet we can't have peace until Hitler is destroyed because we can't denend on his promises, When in the histor of European diplomacy could you believe any of them over there? It i111 be- comes Prealdent Roosevelt to tali: about anyboay keeping his vromise, Broken promises are not the sole property of some in- dividuals in Europe. Then they say that our trade will be des- troyed, To accept and permit such a theory is to say that we will sacrifica American boys in a trade war. That is what it means. Let ue increase domestic consumption and let's work on Anerica to develop our trade and our products. I wish I had the time to discuss this in full because I am sure the Philadelnnia Record would use it, "I want the world's beat amy, but I want it on American a?