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re * Ft Po - Extracts from the rigarks of at the meeting of the - Associated Merchandising Corp. in cnicago, bt CL Mr. Chairman, members of the A.M.C. After your last meeting here some months ago, in your Chicago offices, Mr. Rosenberg rather intimated to me that I had been op- timistic in my viewpoint. I certainly did not feel optimistic, at that time, and apparently I was only afraid to show the extent of my pessimism. It has always seemed to me that since August 1939, when I received a letter from my German friend saying "We will invade Poland on Sep an 30 b1¢ days - then it will be France's turn, then England's, then, shail see who won the last war,” that this i aw T+ fa —_ —— ae CLOT. £6 46 Our —_ ° a Ly a a o —° Pai] e es) dg a oO + ou oO x! fi) In the werds of Lifets editor, Mr, Luce, "We cannot win this war until we come to the knowledge that we might lose it." This war will be the longest, most ruthless and bloodiest war you ever heard of, It will not all be fought in Borneo, “or what have you" but will very conceivably be fought partly between San Francisco and New York and very likely in Alaska, in Mexico and most assuredly in Panama and, of course, in Africa, in Europe and in Aaa twn Tin Ths alae a Wael A tA Tm on. AUSTPSL ia. 103468 is truly A MUL LUT LUS Male Neither Japan nor Germany will collapse, at least not in any conceivable immediate future. The Philippines are gone, Singapore, the Indies, even Turkey and Africa may fall and soon. And, no matter, except that another million men will die and the war will last another year. Mistake it not, there is but one enemy that we face and that we, must defeat and that cnemy is Nazi Germany. Japan will fall when Germany falls and not one hour before, There is but one grave, great and immediate danger to America, namely that England may be invaded. If the British Isles fall, our situation is desperate indeed, for Britain is the "nerve center" of all resistance today, even though Russia is the “strong right arm" at the moment. a As yet we have no adequate army, Rather, a large group of individuals. A Buyer here in Chicago told me recently that if one single German landed at New York, he would take his rifle and go down, He meant this as a patriotic gesture but really it is defeatist in its effect. For, if we, you and I, "wait" until Nazis land . : anywhere then we are on the verge of defeat and we, as well as Mussolini, will be "lackeys" to the “Herren Volk" - the “Master Race", It is we that must do the "landing" or we will indeed, be the slave state. The American Quislings have not changed their minds, they are merely biding their time. All hell will be to pay in these beloved United States of ours, and, when the going gets tough, watch the Darlan's and the Laval's in America and the Lind- bergh's and the Nye's and the Coughlin's. They show signs of having the "Gauleiter" complex, When the $30,000 salaried, export sales executive of a great Detroit Motor Car Man- ufacturer, living in Pleasant Ridge in Detroit, when, I say, such a man is convicted by the Federal Courts of espionage and admits having constantly advised Germany of our detailed army plane production, plant by plant and design by design, then, I say we had best watch the “"Appeasers" and the "Nazi-medal-wearersa" and the apologists for Herr §Schickelgruber, LLG if