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o3~ as long as all of that continent and most of Asia 1s wider Axis domination. But the fact is that none of these suppositions are correct, Wo have only a one-ocean navy. our army $6 t4j) untrained and inadequately equipped for Lichen Arg ag vis Beaty Keen foroign war, Our air force ie deplorably 1 1g In-modern fighting p! anos} sent f en a ee SD When these facts are cited, the interventionists ehout that we ere (hess: defeatiets, that we are undermining the principles of Democracy, and that wo are giving comfort to Germany by talking about our military wealmess. But every= thing I mention here has been published in our newspapers, and in the roports of congressional hoaringa in Washington. Our military position is woll known to the governments of Europe and Aeia. Why, then, should it not bo brought to the attention of our own people? ( lang app Cruse) I eay it is the interventionist in America, as it was in England and Aaxplanred in France, who gives comfort to tho enomy. J say it is thoy who aro undormining the principles of Democracy when they domand that we take a course to which lan more than oighty percent of our citizens are opposed. I chargo thom with boing enna, ie ead ent eS I E the real defoatista, for their policy has led to the dpfoat gf evory coumtry that followed thoir advice sinco thie war began Omnero is no bettor way to give comfort to an onemy than to divide tho people of a nation over the issue of foreign war. There ie no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation. Every nation that has adopted the interventionist policy of depending on some one 6lae for its own defense has met with nothing but defeat and failure. (tuytex x) When history is written, the responsibility for the downfall of the domocracies of Europe will rest squarely upon the shouldorg of the intervention- ists who led their nations into war uninformed end unprophred. “with thoir shouts of defoatiom, and their disdain of reality, they havo already sent count- less thousands of young mon to death in Europe. From the campaign of Poland to that of Greoce, thoir prophosies Imve boen false and thoir policies haye faited. Gy avis Yet these are the people who are calling us defeatists in America today.) they have Jed this country, too, to the werge of war. There are many euch interventioniste in America, but there ere more prope aie us, of a different type. That is why you and I ere assembled here tonight There isa policy open to thi> nation that will lead to success -- a policy that leaves us free to follow our own way of lifo, and to develop our om Civilization. It is not a new and wmtried idea. It was advocated by Washington. It was incorporated in the Monroe Doctrine. ie? guidance, the thited ye States became the greatest nation in the wort Pe is based upon the belief