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Director, March 7, 1941 Page 4. "This is a war between two systems of government, neither of which is a democracy, one of which ia rather a monarchy and the other an imperialist nation, I can hardly believe that the sub- dects of India or other British territories can call themselves citizens of a democracy, and I know that the fine people of Ireland kmow what kind of democracy England gave them. (Applause) Certainly, they don't believe in democracy, and I say here that I am not willing to sacrifice any American boys to save the British Empire. Nor am I willing to establish Hitlerism here in order to try to destroy it 3,000 miles away. Be careful of a man who hates dictators so much that he wants to become one himself, They say this ia a war to eliminate dictatorships. Let's see what that means. The first thing would be to meet Adolf Hitler and defeat him and that wouldn't be a simple thing; then Japan and certainly that wouldn't be an afternoon tea party and then after we whipped Germany and Japan we would have to meet the South American dic- tators (maybe some of the boys in Washington wouldn't call them that); so you can see it's a pretty good task that they are ask- ing us to start upon to clean up the dictatorships in the war and make the world safe for democracy. “The defeat of Hitler would not eliminate dictatorships, another would come to take Hitler's place, Those who caused this war are those who signed the treaty at Verszilles; they created Nazism. Don't be fooled; whoever wins thie war won't write a level peace treaty for anybody. Dictatorships are not caused by men; they are caused by events and conditions, The elimination of men doesn't mean the elimination of dictatorships. They say that we can't have peace until Hitler is destroyed because we can't depend on his promises, When in the histor. of European diplomacy could you believe any of them over there? It ill be- comes President Roosevelt to tali: about anybody keeping his promise, Broken promises are not the sole property of some in- dividuals 4n Europe. Then they say that our trade will be des- troyed, To accept and permit such a theory is to sey that we will sacrifice American boys in a trade war. ‘That is whet it means, Let ue”increase domestic consumption and let's work on America to develop our trade and our products. I wish I had the time to discuss this in full because I am sure the Philadelnnia Record would use it. "T wont the world's best amy, but I want it on “American