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REE a cc od o3- ag long as all of that continent and most of Asia 1e wider Axis domination. But the fact ie that none of these suppositions are correct, We have only a one-ocean navy. our Gur_army j¢. at t4)2 1 dmtresnet s and inadoquately equipped for wrabiy en tha ed of Mir, Pike Aerial een foroign war, Our air force is deplorably lacking in moderr” fighting | planes} Set A —re ele Da ACEO TAO CT le OS RT, a i SO You ofts When these facts are cited, the interventionists shout that we are - [Hers defeatiete, that we are undermining the principles of Democracy, and that woe are giving comfort to Germany by talking about our military wealmese. Sut every- thing I mention here has been published in our newspapers, and in the reports of congressional hoarings in Washington. Our military position is woll imown to the governments of Europe and Aeia. Why, then, should it not be brought to the attention of our ow people? C Ving app Cress ) I eay it is the intervent fonist in America, as it was in England and acamed in France, who gives comfort to tho enem I say it is thoy who aro undormining the principles of Democracy whon they domand that we take a courses to which Letlan more than eighty percent of our citizens are opposed. 1 I charge thom with boing a ee resatlngane se RE kesh noms tgp ARTO Hm a TT the real defeatiata, for their policy has led to the dpfon + yt evory coumtry Mans apple that followed thoir advice since this war began. “Thero an. no bettor way to give comfort to an onemy than to divide the peoplo of a nation over the issue of foreign war. There ie no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation. Every nation that hae adopted the interventionist policy of depending on some one 6lee for its own defense has met with nothing but defeat and failure. Ce ) When history is written, the responsibility for the dowmfall of the democracies of Europe wil] rest squarely upon the shouldeorg of the intorvention= th deere, ists who led their nations into war wiinformed and unproparod. With thoir = ee —_. - 8 2. ie = * 4 ee a $OGLIOO, GG THOlF d1eqgdin Oo: rea iit ¥s they havo aire aay Bent court- o a shouts of less thousands of young mon to death in Europe. From the campaign of Poland to that of Greoce, thoir prophosies have boen false and their policies haye tasted. Gy Yet these are the people who are calling ue defeatists in America today: a they have led this country, too, to the werge of war. There are many euch Oo Cliaplaseed s in America, but there ere more people enone bral] of a different type. That is why you and I ere assembled here tonight ff oeere isa policy open to thi nation that will lead to success =- a policy that leaves us free te follow our own way of lifo, and to develop our om civilization. It is not a new and wtried idea. It was advocated by Washington. Tt was incorporated in the Monroe Doctrine. der ow guidance, the United (4 1 States became the greatest nation in the wor It is based upon the belisf