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- ~ for Anstencés If we of Amsrics really believe thet all this was urresl in the minds of cynical, docsiving lseders, we ought to be manning the berricades. We dontt reelly believe it. ft Finell o the "propagandists", Those who renily fixed td ra as the Americen attitude, whc esteblished our great wish that, in our awn vitcl interest, Hitler should not winesit is ridiculous to Lencro Hitler. There you have the propegandist who renlly did the fob. He dia it befere the wer bogan, the shocting wer in Poland, I receil to you his rise to power--his thrents, his bluster, his telk of heeds relling in the sends. His crgcnizing of en un- official arny of foneticel stormetroopers, his persecution of minori- ties, his destructicn ef demceretic processes ond his spitting con- tenpt of then, IT rececll to the episodes of his rule--the ebclition of parties, lnbcr unions, Reteary clubs, his suppression of free education and religion es well, his firing squrds and concentration camps into which some Christian psstors went, and the essassinction of other lecders in the greet Hitler purge. I recell to you the brisk breoking of . one efter another of internctionel compacts, the returning of ell Germany inte & great engine of war-preparation, the repe of Austris, the perfidy of Czecho- slovakian conquest, and at lest the atteck on Poland=-every one of these moves preceded by assurances thet they need not be feared. And, efter the shocting war begen, I recall te you both the facts and the methods ef the assaults on Innocent neutrsis, agein after piving pladges, from Denmark and Nerway end the low countries to Jugoslevia and Greets. Theso are the things that sclidifiod America: in opposition to Hitlerism end in inecransing support of those nations that still oppose him. To lay it all nowe-the blame for our war dcnger--on the British, the Jews end Roosevelt 1s to mo a species of Intellectual blindness that I cannot conmprcohend. Time is short. I coneluds by sairply submitting /the reeson of you who listen to your reeson es American citizens, not to your emotions, above all not to your love or hate of any other netionel or governrient or feetion these rropositions: (1) Thet we eannct liva or find safety "unto ourselves slone" on this shrunken plisnote W422 feinna)