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bd FROM: National Catho’ ommuni ty Service . ( FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE > 17? Eaet Slat Bet ee ** - Ker York City . : 2 The following ts text of eddreas delivered by his Excellency Moat Reverend - Trancia J, Spellman, Archbishop of New York and Military Vicar of the Armad Forced of the United States, on the occasion of the formal blessing of the Rational Catholic Comunity Service Clubhouse at 17 Kest Slat Street, New York City, opposite St. Patrick's Cathedral on Sunday afternoon, Decender 2ist, The address wee broadcast on @ Ration=ridse hookup of the Columbia Broadcasting System. Anericenss “We have prayed for peace, with justice, We shall continus to pray for ‘Pesce xith fustice, bat peace with juetice can nor cone only through victory. Is that victory certaint 3 Yo, it fe not sertain, but the sacrifice of three thousand American ives on Decexder 7th has nade victory nore probable than it ves before that infanous attack for At has nade America one, a. The chief responsibility for victory is still on our soldiers, eailors, parines and flying nen, bat essential responsibility fe aleo on all the reat of as. . Hleeping, wrangling Aperica has amkened and fe deternined, Perhaps we are not yet fally avaxened * the realisation of the price we must pay in blood, tears and - : g erent, for in the words of Henry Tuce, "fhe high resolve ie yet to cone to us that at woukd te better to Joave anerica a heap of smoking stones than surrender it to. one the mechanised nedievalicn which fe the Mikado or to the Anti-Christ ehich is aitlers ~~ Yo have Yoon & geserous pecpie, Wo wanted pence and we emmk our own . Vattlochize we prove Ae w vanted friendship. ‘with the world and with Japan wnt ‘to prove it ve nade the armor Plate for Japan's warships, furnished the oft, to rive “Weir eogines aoa the eesoLine we ring thelr planes to Bond us, Fe shall not fore get the Blood | that ‘tes roan ott, wat we shall Forget the irrenediable past ond oS * ¢he ‘fhgteea-oonta ‘oss et ww 4,000,000 ascdays of Safonse effort end the to at