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a! : . ' * et e ™ ~ ~ ef. AMBREGA FIRST COMMITTEE 07.2 S! floong22 ee 1 . a: ; By a - oe oe 7 Bs, : - - oe, 3 a wt a a mo 2 . ae rae TAL £ A ee - a ie a wifi dt becomes expedient to her welfare in the future. ‘If you x i aon on my words now, I ask only that you read a history of the relationship j* between the United States and England during the lest hundred and fifty. i ? £ ef thy” ! TAY eg Po q .. /. s years, and that you combine with this a re-reading of the pledges of everlasting {> loyalty that took place between England and France less than two years ago, San you will do thie, I believe you will agree with me that we must ddpe ‘ = nd upon 7%. ourselves and ourselves only, for our security in the future. ara ara tere , 7 pone Now instead of following the lead of the interventionists, a suppose we concentrate on our own defenses, as I have advocated, since long >. be before this war began. I have maintained that if we attend properly to our. = own defense, no European or Asiatic power will dam to attack us; and that if - - we attend properly to our own affaira, none will desire to, But suppose --. ; a that the fears of the interventioniets cane true, and we are attacked. Jn 2 T. that case it would be our enemy, and not we, who would have to force a landing © ‘- one histile coast. It would be our enemy, and not we, who would have to. <p ys 7 maintain supply lines across the ocean sgainst the harassment of our bombing plane _ our submsrines, and our battleships. In that case, we could use our own avie= ©" : _ thon to the utmost advantage, concentrating it within a few hours at any point §.” i. on our shores, and basing it on established and well-equipped air fields. See ie i -, , Uf the British navy with its bases strung out from Alexandria to Scapa Flow = >" — if that navy with Gibraltar and Malta to assiet it, cannot remain within domb=" ing range of the European coast, then how can any navy, or any combination of -. navies, oroas the ocean, and without « single base in this hanisphore, lend an. - expeditionary force on American shores? — - eg lt RE tote Sots wip Ee er a whl ae [x ete . ; Instead of reducing the value of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans’ fron the standpoint of our security, aviation makes then . more importent than.-223.5. i ever before. Air power practically removes the danger of attack by seaj and the: 7 oceans themselves prevent effective attatks by air, °°. ae bei ee fe Meh a ed - Let us take advantage of this fact. Let us take advantage of ©... _ the changes that aircraft and this modern era bring to nations and to men, Let :;) . us use these changes to our advantage, and not permit them to be used against +" ; use They oan either strengthen our Ame . rican independence, and edd to the 09°)" quality of our western civilization, or they oan take us back into the endless —, « wars and quarrels ef the old world. The nation that makes use of these advan- ;.: tages will survive, and the nation which fails to understand then is certain..." to fall. The choice is the test of America, and the way of life we bulit up in this new world, a to So te oe ote a: w : - 2 "hae ’ . . ® . JJ 4 "+" We have the most perfect defensive position of any nation. ‘ oe have highly developed industries, and an entire hemisphere full of natural ©.:*~., ee A Tae Nn RE am Be a resources. Here in America we have developed new standards of life anda :’ #7! new civilization; and our forefathers fought for the right to do so. Our entire *. . nations] tradition is based on independence. Shall we now give up the inde 250°. | . Bendence we have won, end crusade abroad in a utopian attempt to force our eT 4