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. « ‘or insteonce. If wo of Anerice really believe thet all this was urrecl in the minds of cynical, docoiving leeders, we ought to be manning the berricedes. We don't reelly believe it. Finelly es to the "propogondists". Those who really fixed the Americen attitude, who estevlished our greet wish thet, in our awn vitcl interest, Hitler should not wineeit ts ridiculous to Lencre Hitler, There you heve the proprgandist who reslly did the job. He dia it befere the wer bogen, the shocting wer in Poland. I recall to you his rise to power--his threats, his bluster, his telk of heeds rolling in the sands. His crgcnizing of en un- official arny of faoneticel storrmetroopers, his persecution of minori- ties, his destruction of demceretic processes end his spitting con- tenpt of then. I recoli to the episodes of his rule--the ebclition of parties, lnbcr unions, Retery clubs, his suppression of free educetion and religion es well, his firing squeds end concentration camps into which some Christian psstors went, and the cssessinction of other lecders in the grect Hitler purge. I recell to you the brisk breoking of one efter another of internctionel compacts, the returning of ell Germeny inte e creat engine of war-preperstion, the repe of Austric, the porfidy of Czecho- slovekion conquest, and at lest the attack on Polande-every one of these moves preceded by assurances that they nesd not be feared. And, efter the shocting war began, I recall to you both the facts and the methods ef the asssults on innocent neutrals, cgein after giving pledges, from Denmark end Nerway end the low countries to Jugoslevia and Greece. Theso are the things thet sclidifiod America’ in opposition to Hitlerism end in increasing support of thoss nations thet still oppose him. To lay it o11 nowe-tho bleme for our war denger--on the British, the Jews end Roosevelt is to mo a species of intellectual blindness that I ecennot comprehend. Time is short. I coneluds by sirply subnittine/tne rerson of you who listen to your reeson es American citizens, not to your emotions, above ell not te your love or hate of any other netionel or governrent or feetion these nropositions: (1) Thet we cannot livo or find safety "unto ourselves slone" on this shrunken plenot. W4- fonne)