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WWe played our part in bringing about the only © ee ee alternative to the spread of commnism.-- the emergence Me SOP totalitarian regimes in Italy and Germany. wos Pe / - meet president Koosevelt's spaific attempts to curb ° the dictators "encouraged the spread of aut tarchy, er fendered hatreds, and served to increase international economic and political anxiety,” We use the same basic remedy internally that Hii "LER is attempting to use externally for Germany, Le, Our efforts to outlaw war as an instrument of na- tional policy “merely led to Cisrespect, ; for international - law." x F . . lf . . : 4h - ~s aa We are meddling in other people's quarrels. ‘The ene Seed a ; . totalitarian nations of Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain and Russia had a definite quarrelwith England and France. So did Japan have a quarrel with the concession powers i. China. These nations have no quarrel with the United States other than the quarrel which we ourselves wish to initiate." We have already takeh steps to war. "'Every assist- ance short of war! is war.” foo. ” ” ‘Fe are yrong in | wishing HITIER defeated. "The ob- jectives of enemy defeat (should we enter the war) should be secondary." But "worst of all" we “ynintentionally" caused the war by ®inciting” England am other "old friends" to engage in war again et HITLER, by indicating we would support them ye wea tele us _ - Finally, we mst not be shocked by HITLIR's policies, “. > (nor by MUSSOLINT's), against ‘feedom™, It seems that all | the distasteful things Italy and Germany have done they did ~ “ “beeause they have been “at war" (since 1922 and 1933 res ' peetively) and had an "urgent need for national unity .* {By its context this passage appears to be an oblique voter ence to anti-Semitism and other internal policies, y ' ‘ i aw ~26-