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““"¢ Yt 1s true) ds Mr. Lindbergh wo Whew “ur - unerstend, that our nation is unprepa:.d to meet so formidable a foe as the German war machine, f is because, during the past twenty yeals, we have listened to propaganda of peace put out by Germany and Russia to the American public while at fhe same time these two nations were making the greatest possible effort to build whot is now known to be the ‘~- greatest military machine ever operated by one na- ‘tion against another. ae oo ft is also becouse we attempted to follow o policy of isolation without providing ourselves with the mili- tary and economic means of maintaining isolation in any sense except that we refused to accept our joint responsibility of maintaining the peace of the world by joining, and moking effective, the League: of Notions, = - | , ; There is good reason to believe that the United States and Great Britain can ultimately defeat Ger-' many and her allies, but we cannot afford to become so optimistic in this belief that we would neglect to promote al! of those defense efforts essential to final victory. + a oe There are logico] reasons to believe that the Axis powers could, in their own good time, extend their aggression to the Western hemisphere. If Amer- ican aid to Britain is nat too late or too little, it is equally possible that the United States and Great Britain con both isolate the flames of war to fhe European continent and ultimately defeat the dictator Ration: on their own soil. 7 : If our English speaking notions have any in- /' ternal faults in their social, economic or political make-up, they can be corrected in a democratic man- ner. It is a poor time now to squobble among opi- selves with Hitler knocking at the door.: - Nothwithstanding what may be right and wrorig between labor and industry, it is entirely possible that for every man-hour of labor lost os result of strikes in defense industries, ten Americans may die in battle for lack of the materials that should be produced at this time. _ : if it is true, as Mr. Lindbergh has told us, thet Germany con never invade our country, that the cost would be too great, it could equally be true that Great Britain and the United States, atlied in the grettest possible war effort, cannot, in our life time, dislodge the German conquerors from those fourteen nations of Europe already eccupied by German, Russian and . Italian military forces. a re if it is true thot we ore unprepared to defend ourselves at this time, it can only be because, after a great deal of democratic debating during the past year, we were slow to put into effect the conscriptiori program and start the machinety to bulld out weapons of defense, something we Id done ~-fnet merely talked about) minute Hitier and ae tae i _ Since we are octuolly in this wor, the more t op oe