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3n Engelsk A, Historie A 20/12-11
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Analyze for yourselves the future of two other places even nearer to Germany if the Nazis won.
Could Ireland hold out? Would Irish freedom be permitted as an amazing exception in an unfree
world? Or the islands of the Azores which still fly the flag of Portugal after five centuries? We
think of Hawaii as an outpost of defense in the Pacific. Yet, the Azores are closer to our shores in
the Atlantic than Hawaii is on the other side.
There are those who say that the Axis powers would never have any desire to attack the Western
Hemisphere. This is the same dangerous form of wishful thinking which has destroyed the powers
of resistance of so many conquered peoples. The plain facts are that the Nazis have proclaimed,
time and again, that all other races are their inferiors and therefore subject to their orders. And most
important of all, the vast resources and wealth of this hemisphere constitute the most tempting loot
in all the world.
Let us no longer blind ourselves to the undeniable fact that the evil forces which have crushed and
undermined and corrupted so many others are already within our own gates. Your Government
knows much about them and every day is ferreting them out.
Their secret emissaries are active in our own and neighboring countries. They seek to stir up
suspicion and dissension to cause internal strife. They try to turn capital against labor and vice
versa. They try to reawaken long slumbering racial and religious enmities which should have no
place in this country. They are active in every group that promotes intolerance. They exploit for
their own ends our natural abhorrence of war. These trouble?breeders have but one purpose. It is to
divide our people into hostile groups and to destroy our unity and shatter our will to defend
ourselves.
There are also American citizens, many of them in high places, who, unwittingly in most cases, are
aiding and abetting the work of these agents. I do not charge these American citizens with being
foreign agents. But I do charge them with doing exactly the kind of work that the dictators want
done in the United States.
These people not only believe that we can save our own skins by shutting our eyes to the fate of
other nations. Some of them go much further than that. They say that we can and should become the
friends and even the partners of the Axis powers. Some of them even suggest that we should imitate
the methods of the dictatorships. Americans never can and never will do that.
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 it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness.
There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb. We know now that a nation can have peace
with the Nazis only at the price of total surrender.
Even the people of Italy have been forced to become accomplices of he Nazis; but at this moment
they do not know how soon they will e embraced to death by their allies.
The American appeasers ignore the warning to be found in the ate of Austria, Czechoslovakia.,
Poland, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, and France. They tell you that the Axis
powers re going to win anyway; that all this bloodshed in the world could be saved; and that the
United States might just as well throw its influence into the scale of a dictated peace, and get the
best out of it that we can.