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Show The End of ; M The Beginning Watch out! Don't slacken! Don't let the dazzling rainbow of victories won blind us to the fact that the storm is not yet over, that the tlouds are still dark above us. The end Is not yet. Winston Churchill warned us of that when he said this was the end of the beginning not the beginning begin-ning of the end. And we must take heed. It is the end of the beginning of the period of indecision, of the hour in which we woke from dreams of peace to the reality of war, of the days and nights in which we had to reorganize not only our lives but our manner of thought, to reorient ourselves to a world ruled by the exigencies of war. But the end is not yet. We cannot win tills war by over-confidence, we cannot assume the game is over when the play begins to run our way. The decision will come at the end of the game when the last play has been made and the last battle fought. We cannot leave the field until the final second of the game. We want to win this war that we may return to what we had. We do not want anything from any other nation. We want only for other peoples that freedom which wo claim "for ourselves the ' freedom of speech, expression and religion the freedom from want and fear. .We' cannot win this war by wish ing. We have to win it by work. The quickest way to win the war Is tl best way to win.lt. and this means discarding everything that won't help in the all out effort. To wla the war we must have neither idle hours nor idle dollars. But money Is not enough. Production Is not e-'nough. e-'nough. Men are not enough. We ' must add to these that extra effort, that all essential will to win. We must accept restrictions willingly. We must do all we can gladly. We must not allow ourselves to be caught by Axis inspired propaganda. propa-ganda. We must not be spreaders of rumor. We must not be disseminators dissem-inators of hatred toward any of our own people, regardless of class, race creed or color. We must not be selfish sel-fish hoarders. Conversely, we must work, we must sacrifice, we must fight for the common good. And we must have faith In the ultimate victory, while putting forth all our strength to win. The beginning is ended. Now the road lies ahead, it will be rough In many places it will go through valleys val-leys of depression, skirt dangerous precipices, descend perhaps into quagmires of temporary defeat, but at the end it will lead, we are confident, con-fident, to victory and to ultimate peace for all the peoples of all the earth. |