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Porn Ws tubs Mr. Lindbergh wo" W&eue "ur understgnd, thot our nation is unprepard to meet s0 formidable a foe as the German war machine, ft is because, during the past twenty yeals, we have listened to propaganda of peace put out by Germany ond Russia to the American public while at the same time these two nations were making the greatest possible effort to build what is now known to be the ‘~ greatest military machine ever operated by one no- tion against another. a cone . ft is also because we attempted to follow o policy of isolation without providing ourselves with the mili- tary and economic means of maintaining isolation in any sense except that we refused to accept our joint responsibility of maintaining the peoce of the world by joining, and moking effective, the League of Nations. : : ' There is good reason to believe that the United States and Great Britain can ultimately defeat Ger- many and her allies, but we cannot afford to become $0 optimistic in this belief that we would neglect to Promote all of those defense efforts essential to final victory. . : There ore bogicol reasons to believe that the Axis powers could, in their own good time, extend their aggression to the Western hemisphere. If Amer- ican aid to Britain is not too late or too little, it is equally possible that the United States and Great Britain con both isolate the flames of war to European continent and ultimately defeat the dictator mations on their own soil. b If our English speaking notions have any ‘ia- ternal faults in their social, economic or political make-up, they can be corrected in a democratic man- ner. It is a poor time now to squobble among opi. selves with Hitler knocking at the door. - Nothwithstanding what may be right and wrorig between labor and industry, it is entirely possible that for every man-hour of labor lost os result of strikes in defense industries, ten Americans may die in battlé for lack of the materials that should be produced ot this time. . . I€ it is true, as Mr. Lindbergh has told us, thet Germany con never invade our country, that the cost would be too great, it could equally be true that Great Britain and the United Stotes, atlied in the gredtest possible war effort, cannot, in our life time, dislodge the German conquerors from those fourteen nations of Europe already occupied by German, Russian and Italian military forces. ms 2 If it is true thot we are unprepared to defend ourselves at this time, it can only be because, after @ great deal of democratic debdting during the past year, we were slow to put into effect the conscriptiort program and start the maochinety to build our weapons of defense, something we Id done ~ -(net merely talked about) minute Hitier and olin‘s forces started their bloody march into-Petend, _ Since we ere octuolly in this wor, the more