Salt Lake Telegram | 1943-01-07 | Page 4 | Highlights of Roosevelt's Message to Congress

Highlights of R Roosevelt's Rb L velt's veIts Me Message sage to Congress 1 WASHINGTON Jan 7 UP Highlights H Highlights of President Roosevelt's state of the union message to congress The past year was perhaps the most crucial fr mo modern civilization the coming year will be filled with viol violent nt conflict con con- yet filet yet with high promise of better things S C S C By far the largest and most important developments Inthe in inthe inthe the whole strategic picture of 1942 were the events of the thelong long fronts in Russia Russia- S C S The period of our defensive attrition in the Pacific Is passing passin Now our aim Is to force the Japanese to fight Last Las jear we stopped them This year we e Intend to advance I 1 cannot prophesy I cannot tell you when or where the united nations aUona are going to strike next in Europe But we are going to strike and to strike and strike hard S S S Hitler and Mussolini always had the advantage of superior air power that superiority has gone gone gona forever Yes Yes the the nazis and the fascists have ha asked for or it and it-and and they to are going Here some of or the thet du tl are r figures In 1942 w we produced combat vehicles s au h 1 tanks and pro self artillery I machine antitank f r I o 1 guns rounds of small arms ammunition I rounds rO of artillery ammunition mm v The ar arsenal enal of democracy is making good While Wh e we have been achieving this miracle of production during th the past year our pur armed forces have grown from front a little littleover over vec- to As I speak to y you u approximately approximately approximately on one and a half million of our soldiers sailors marines and fliers are in service outside our continental limits all through the world S S S Yes Ves 1943 13 will not be an easy year for us on the home front We shall sisal feel teel In many ways 88 In our daily dally lives ll the sharp pinch of total war Fortunately there are ares are only a few Americans Ameri merl cans who place appetite above e patriotism S S S SWe We should never forget the things we are fighting for The men In our armed forces want a lasting peace and acid equally they w want nt permanent employment for themselves their families and their neighbors when they are ale mustered out at the end of the war S S S I 1 I do when this war will wili end But I do believe believe be be- lieve that this year jear of 1943 will give to the un united ed nations a very substantial advance along the roads that lead to Berlin and md Rome and nd Tokyo Toko r I. I