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. o4- that inn security of a nation lies in the strength and character of its own ip ow (yp It recommends the maintenance of armed forces sufficient to gofona this homisphere from attack by any combination foros It domands faith ph ry any ton pf LOTOL ED, POLOES + peo ple’ in an {dependent Anoricen destiny. This 48 the policy of tho Amorica Firet Committoo today.” “It is @ policy not of feolation, but of indopondencos not of dofoat, but of courago. It is a policy that lod thie nation to succoas during the most trying yoare of our history, and it is a policy that will Iced us to euccoss again. 44 Aan Wo havo woakoned ourselves for many months, etill "Siithane wo pave 6 leaned bfy dividod our own Peoplo by thie dabbling in Europots work. ens “o ea d_ have been been concentrating on American defense, | wo have been forced to, Argue_over for- Sian guerrels. ¥ peat aaots) our eyee and our faith back to our own country bo- (atti) arrancones anon eo omrconnie.ar nape fore it ie too la cy tine when we do this, a difforent vista opons before us. Fm A aN EE Practically evory difficulty we would face in invading Europe becomes an aesot to us in defending America. Our enomy, and not wo, would then havo tho problom of transporting millions of troops across the ocean and landing them on a hostile shore. Thoy, and not we, would have to furnish the convoys to transport gums . (Arcuse ) and trucks and munitions and fuel acroes threo thousand miles of wator. Our _battleships end submarines would thon bo fighting close to their home basos. Wo would then do tho bombing from the air, and tho torpedoing at sca. And if any part of an enemy convoy should evor pase our navy and our air force, thoy would etill be faced with the guns of our coast.artillory, and bohind them, the divisions of our amy. Op Miiwre The United States is better situated from a military standpoint than any other nation in the world. Even in our present condition of unpreparedness, Pee cnmnmmmnitenmonamantenaih a no foreign power ia in a position to invade us today.) If we concentrate on our own defenses, and build the strength that thie nation should maintain, no : foreign army will ever attempt to Jand on American shores. GAM@=+ lhe War is not inevitable for this country. Such a claim is defeatiam in the true sense. No one can rake us fight abroad unlose wo ourselves are willing lt. to do so. No one will attempt to fight us here if we arm oursolves as a great netion should be ammo plane a hundred million poople in this nation aro oP fact posed to entoring the war.y If the principles of Domocracy moan anything at 2, that is reason onough for us to stay od If we are forced into a war against the “ishos of an overwhelming majority of our people, we will have proved Peng ad, Offre The time has come when those of us who believe in an independent Ameri- such @ failure at home that there will be little use fighting for it al