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Henry a Wallace — Part 5
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Sneech “hich costs a man his job isn't free. The men vho bear
| a, emnene
the resvonsibility for the high nrices we are naying today, for the
declinin; real wages, for our failure to make good the cromises to
our veterans -- these men kno” their resnonsibility ani they think
the onlv ‘ay out is to Aistract the neovle with a "foreign menacc”™.
They want us to believe that we are threatened “ith nhysical attack
when the combined military might of ull the nations in the world
Aoesn't compare to our air, naval, an? atoric strensth totar.
They vant us to believe that we ure threatene? ~ith something
they call "political agc-ression". It is a clever propaginda term -
"nolitical agcression". It can friyiten a few unreasoning neonle,
but the true believer in derocrac:’ does not fear the comnetition
of ideas.
For all their efforts to creste feur ther haven't naralyzed
all the Americun people - and they won't.
_-. ee ee as wee
They can feol sore of the ~eonle some of the time, but thev
0 0 EL LLL LOLA ALLOA ee ean ~_—
we ee we ee ee
cantt fool most of the »eonle ar of tho time.
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nut ve must not undecrestirmte the effectiveness of the
scare" as 4 nropacanea weapon. It has alircaty ecst millions of
lives. It was the major weapon of adolf “Yitler; an? both Vitler
and raul ‘Coohrels vould enjoy the way in -hich it his heen adorte4
bv nover-hunery and profit-huncry men totay.
“e@ must remem-er that while Hitier cried for the violent
Aestruction of covrunists an? von the symmathy of Cha~berlain, .
oe.
Daladier, and the vreactior.sios o° the vest, it vas the vestern
democracies that Hitler attackei Lev‘ore *uekling Russia.
Tolay, as the sare cry ~oes un from our reactionarios and
men of orrire, it is not the Nussiins, wut the ‘merican neople who
aro the first victims.
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