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Roosevelt Speaking About Cancer Of Nazis And Aid To Britain (1940) | British Pathé | YouTubeToText
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The United States faces an unprecedented existential threat, comparable to its earliest colonial struggles, requiring immediate and significant preparation and sacrifice to support allies and prevent Axis domination of the globe.
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never before since Jamestown and
Plymouth Rock as our American
civilization being in such danger as
now frankly and definitely there is danger
danger
ahead danger against which we must
prepare but we well know that we cannot
Escape danger or the fear of it by
crawling into bed and pulling the covers
over our
heads if Great Britain goes down the
Axis powers will control the continents
of Europe and Asia and Africa and
australasia and the high seas and they
will be in a position to bring enormous
military and
resources against this hemisphere it is
no exaggeration to say that all of us in
the Americas would be living at the
point of a gun A gun loaded with
explosive bullets economic as well as
military the experience of the past two
years has proven Beyond doubt that no
Nation can appease the Nazis
no man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking
stroking
it there can be no
appeasement with
ruthlessness there can be no
reasoning with an incendiary
bomb we know now that a nation that can
have peace with the Nazis only at the price
price
of total
surrender the people of Europe who are
defending themselves do not ask us to do
their fighting they ask us for the
Implements of war the planes the tanks
the guns the traitors which will enable
them to fight for their Liberty and our
security we have furnished the British
great material support and we will
furnish far more in the
future there will be no bottlenecks in
our determination to Aid Great Britain no
no
dictator no combination of dictators
will weaken that
determination by threats of how they will
will
construe that
determination this nation is making a
great effort to produce everything that
is necessary in in this emergency and
with all possible speed this great
effort requires Great
sacrifice the nation expects our defense
Industries to continue operation without
interruption by strikes or lockouts it
expects and insists that management and
workers will reconcile their differences
by voluntary or legal means to continue
to produce the supplies that are so all
needed we must be the great AAL of
democracy for us this is an emergency as
serious as War
itself I believe that the Axis powers
are not going to win this War I base
that belief on the latest and the best
information as president of the United States
States
I call for that National effort I call
for it in the name of this nation which
we love and honor and which we are
privileged and proud to
serve I call upon our people with
absolute confidence that our common
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