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* (2) That the sweop of old-feshioned despotism in new-fashioned totalitarian garb does constitute « thrert to us, to our ideals and our stretegic security--e fect which isoletion- ists in effect concede when they call for erming to the hilt. (3) Thet it 4s supreme folly to say that we prefer to meet this menece on our own soil or as clese es possibdlo, and ebdove all to meet it alone, without ellics becouse allies ere imperfect pecple. (4) Thet wisdom, on the contrery, dictates keoping it et a Sr eas distence and contribution to its frustration before it can 4 sweep the rest of the world, before we bring on ourselves the quesr satisfaction of fighting under the worst odds, with the minimum chance cf bringing into being allies whom then we should desperetely want end essicuously seek, with no regerd for their imperfections. {5) That el] the risks to our institutions which isolationists picture to us cs a consequence of stending firm would be vestly greater, not less, if we adopted their program of just postponing the firm stand. A war fought alone, after the eresh of other resisters, would be far more likely to last for yeors and yeers. The risk cf losing cur own dencerncy would be far, for crester 1f wo beckod down now end then had to maintnin through first, c "hot peace”, and through subsequontly e very long war a military economy and psychology. I submit thet the period cf confusion, bickering, uncer- tainty, humiltetion ond fecr--the period of "open house” for the fomentation of passion cand bitterness betweon groups by those whose intcrest it would be to soften us-- is dy 211 cdé@s the mest dangerous of the prospects and risks. Fellow Anoricans, I have osrersed the motives or the cherector of nobody. I heve tried net to meke, and I think I heve not msde, any apres] to class or greup or reciel cr roligiocus or any other prejudice. I heve talked briefly and telkeé solely cbout ideas thet are in the debete, and about the tacticseesore of which seem to me very urwise--in the propescndizing of then. I think the situation is sericus, that the things ct stake for Aiserica are much too gerest end the hour toc fer advanced, to stay divided longer. . I think the tine is te close our ranks, to stand firm, to put Ancrice reslly first, even sbove our lesser aiffercnees, now, not in 1043, And I profess to you thet I think it neither as © kneve nor es a dupe cf the British, the Jows, cr Rocsevolt. (END) (Brondeost Sundsy, Septombor 14, 1941)