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‘We played-our part in bringing about the only alternative to the spread of communism.-- the emergence of totalitarian regimes in Italy and Germany. President noosevelt's spaific attempts to curb ~ the dictators "encouraged the spread of autarchy, en- gendered hatreds, and served to increase international economic and political anxiety,” We use the same basic remedy internally that HITLER is attempting to use externally for Germany, : Our efforts to outlaw war as an instrument of na- tional policy "merely led to disrespect for international law." : 7 * We are meddling in other people's quarrels, “The totalitarian nations of Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain and Russia had a definite quarrelwith England and France. So did Japan have a quarrel with the concession powers i. China. These nations have no quarrel with the United States other than the quarrel which we ourselves wish to initiate." We have already takeh steps to war. "'Every assist- ance short of war' is war. * We are wrong in wishing HITLER defeated. "The ob- jectives of enemy defeat (should we enter the war) should be secondary." But "worst of all" we "unintentionally" caused the war by "inciting" England and other "old friends" to engage in war again st HITLER, by indicating we would support them. Finally, we must not be shocked by HITLIR's policies, (nor by MUSSOLINT's), against 'Beedom™, It seems that all the distasteful things Italy and Germany have done they did because they have been “at war" (since 1922 and 1933 res- pectively) and had an "urgent need for national unity ." {By its context this passage appears to be an oblique refer- ence to anti-Semitism and other internal policies.) =26-