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Show Gffeaft Speech if Vi2.Pr. Wallace One of Best Talks of Our Time. Good Political J and Economic Gospel For Common People weapons of modern war with a holy hatred. j. But because of that fact and be- cause Hitler and the German people peo-ple stand as the very symbol of war, we shall fight with a tireless enthusiasm until war and the pos-j pos-j sibility of war have been removed j from this planet. We shall cleanse I the plague spot of Europe, which I is Hitler's Germany, and with it the hell-hole of AsiaJapan. The American People This is a fight between a slave world and a free world. Just as ( the United States in 1862 could not remain half slave and half " free, so in 1942 the world must make its decision for a complete victory one way or the other. As we begin the final stages of this fight to the death between the free world and the slave world, it is worth while to refresh our ift minds about the march of freedom "for the common man. The idea of freedom the freedom that we in the United States know and love so well is derived from the Bible with its extraordinary emphasis on financed by well-meaning wealthy men who sincerely believe that their wealth is Hkely to be safer y can hire men with Political it to change the sign posts and lure the people back into slavery of the most degraded kind. Unfortunately Unfor-tunately for the wealthy men and finance movements of this sort, as well as for the people themselves, the successful demagogue is a powerful genie who, when once let out of his bottle, refuses to obey anyone's command. As long as his spell holds, he defies God Himself, and Satan is turned loose upon the world. to go about it to build an enduring world-wide peace. We did not have the nerve to follow through and prevent Germany from rearming. We did not insist that she "learn war no more." We did not build a peace treaty on the fundamental doctrine of the people's revolution. We did not; strive whole-heartedly to create a world where there could be freedom free-dom from want for all the peoples. But by our very errors we learned learn-ed much, and after this war we shall be in position to utilize our knowledge in building a world which is economically, politically i and, I hope, spiritually sound. Enough To Eat Modern science, which is a byproduct by-product and an essential part of the people's revolution, has made it technologically possible to see that all of the people of the world get enough to eat. Half in fun and half seriously, I said the other day to Madam Litvi-noff Litvi-noff : "The object of this war is to make sure that everybody in the world has the privilege of drinking drink-ing a quart of milk a day." She replied: "Yes, even a pint." The peace must mean a better standard of living for the common man, not merely in the United States and England, but also in India, Russia, China and Latin America not merely in the United Unit-ed Nations, but also in Germany and Italy and Japan. Some have spoken of the "American "Amer-ican Century." I say that the century cen-tury on which we are entering the century which will come into being after this war can be and MUST be the century of the common man. Perhaps it will be America's opportunity op-portunity to support the freedoms and duties by which the common man must live. Everywhere the common man must learn . to in-, crease his productivity so that he and his children can eventually pay to the world community all that they have received. No nation will have the God-given right to exploit other nations. Older nations will have the privilege privi-lege to help younger nations get started on the path to industrialism, industrial-ism, but there must be neither military nor economic imperialism. The methods of the 19th century will not work in the people's century cen-tury which is now about to begin. India, China, and Latin America have a tremendous stake in. the people's century. As their masses learn to read and write, and as they become productive mechanics, their standard of living will double and treble. Modern science, when devoted wholeheartedly to the general welfare, wel-fare, has in it potentialities of which we do not yet dream. Satan-Inspired Fuehrer Through the leaders of the Nazi revolution, Satan now is trying to lead the common man of the whole world back into slavery and darkness. dark-ness. For the stark truth is that the violence preached bv the Nazis is the devil's own religion of darkness. dark-ness. So also is the doctrine that one race or one class is by hereditv superior and that all other races or classes are supposed to be slaves. The belief in one Satan-inspired Fuehrer, with his Quislings, his Lavals, and his Mussolinis his gauleiters in every nation in the world is the last and ultimate darkness. Is there any hell hotter than that of being a Quisling, unless un-less it is that of being a Laval or a Mussolini ? In a twisted sense, there is something almost great in the figure fig-ure of the Supreme Devil operating operat-ing through a human form, in a Hitler who has the daring to spit straight into the eye of God and man. But the Nazi system has a heroic position for only one leader. By definition only one person is allowed al-lowed to retain full sovereignty over his own soul. All the rest are stooges they are stooges wo have been mentally and politically degraded, and who feel that they can get sonare with the world onh" by-mentally-and "politically degrading degrad-ing other people. These stooges are really psycholopathic cases. Satan has turned loose upon us the insane. The march of freedom of the past 150 years has been a long-drawn-out people's revolution. In this Great Revolution of the people, peo-ple, there were the American Revolution Rev-olution of 1775. the French Revolution Revo-lution of 1792, the Latin-American evolution of the Bolivarian era. the German Revolution of 1848. and the Russian Revolution of 1917. Each spoke for the common man in terms of blood on the battlefield. bat-tlefield. Rome went to excess. But the significant thing is that the : people groped their way to the light. More of them learned to think and work together. The people's revolution aims at peace and not at violence, but if , the rights of the common man are attacked, it unleashes the ferocity of a she-bear who has lost a cub When the Nazi psychologists tell their mnster Hitler that we in the United States may be able to produce pro-duce hundreds of thousands of nlanes, but that we have no will to fight, they are only fooling themselves them-selves and him. Four Freedoms ,J the dignity of the individual. De-" De-" mocracy is the only true political expression of Christianity. I The prophets of the Old Testa- I ment were the first to preach so-' so-' cial justice. But that which was sensed by the prophets many centuries cen-turies before Christ was not given complete and powerful political ex-2' ex-2' pression until our nation was ; formed as a Federal Union a cen- tury and a half ago. Even then, j the march of the common people 5 had just begun. Most of them did j not yet know how to read and i write. There were no public schools 1 to which all children could go. J Men and women cannot be really jj free until they have plenty to eat, mj, and time and ability to read and Lso think and talk things over. fflj Down the years, the -people of to the United States have moved ml steadily forward in the practice of democracy. Through universal ed-ucation, ed-ucation, they now can read and V write and form opinions of their :U own. They have learned, and are still learning; the art of production produc-tion that is, how to make a living. . They have learned, and are still learning the art of self-government. March of Freedom If we are to measure freedom by ' standards of nutrition, education and self-government, we might rank, the United States and cer- tain nations of western Europe very high. But this would not be a fair to other nations where education educa-tion has become widespread only in the last 20 years. In many nations, a generation ago, 9 out of 10 of the people could not read or write. Russia, J for example, was changed from an illiterate to a literate nation within one generation and, in the process, Russia's appreciation of freedom was tremendously increased. In """j China, the increase during the past i 30 years in the ability of the peo- .J pie to read and write has been N, matched by their increased interest inter-est in real liberty. Everywhere, reading and writ. "T ing are accompanied by industrial I progress, and industrial progress sooner or later inevitably brings a strong labor movement. From a long-time and fundamental fundamen-tal point of view, there are no backward peoples which are lacking lack-ing in mechanical sense. Russians, Chinese, and the Indians, both of India and the Americas, all learn w to read and write and operate machines ma-chines just as well as your children OTll ... -U.-1J ' The American' people have al-, al-, ways had guts and ' always will have. You know the story of bomber pilot Dixon and radioman I Gene Aldrich and ordnanceman Tony Pastula the story which I Americans will be telling their chil-, chil-, dren for generations to illustrate man's ability to master any fate. I These men lived for 34 days on the l open sea in a rubber life raft, 8 feet by. 4 feet, with no food but that which they took from the sea and the air with one pocket knife and a pistol. And yet they lived it through and came at last to the beach of an island they did not know. In spite of their suffering and weakness, they stood like men, with no weapon left to protect themselves, and no shoes on their feet or clothes on their backs and walked in military file because, they said, "If there were Japs, we didn't want to be crawling." , The American fighting men, and all the fighting men of the United i Nations, will need to summon all their courage during the next few months. I am convinced that the summer and fall of 1942 will be a . time of supreme crisis for us all. Hitler, like the prize-fighter who realizes he is on the verge of being knocked out, is gathering all his remaining re-maining forces for one last desperate desper-ate blow. I ' We may be sure that Hitler and Japan will cooperate to do the unexpected un-expected pehap.v as attack by Japan against Alaska and our Northwest coast at a time when German transport planes will be shuttled across from Dakar to furnish fur-nish leadership and stiffening to a German uprising in Latin America. In any event, the psychological and sabotage offensive in the United States and Latin America will be timed to coincide with, or anticipate antici-pate by a few weeks, the height of the military offensive. Stifle Fifth Columnists We must be especially prepared to stifle the fifth columnists in the United States who will try to sabotage sabo-tage not merely bur war material plants, but even infinitely more important, our minds. We must be prepared for the worst kind of fifth column work in Latin America, much of it operating through the agency of governments with which the United States at present is at peace. When I say this, I recognize recog-nize that the peoples, both in Latin : America and of the nations supporting sup-porting the agencies through which the fifth columnists work, are overwhelmingly over-whelmingly on the side of the democracies. de-mocracies. i 1 We must expect the offensive against us on, the military, propaganda propa-ganda and sabotage fronts, both in the United States and in Latin America, to reach its ap.ex some time during the next few months. The convulsive efforts of the dying dy-ing madman will be so great that some of us may be deceived into thinking that the situation is bad at a time when it is really getting better. But in the case of most of us, the events of the next few months, disturbing though thev may be, will only increase our will to bring about complete victory in this war of liberation. Prepared in spirit we can not be surprised. Psy- chological terrorism will fall flat. I As we nerve ourselves for the su-! su-! preme effort in this hemisphere we ' must not forget the sublime heroism hero-ism of the oppressed in Europe and Asia, whether it be in the mountains moun-tains of Yugoslavia, the factories of Czechoslovakia and France, the farms of Poland, Denmark, Holland Hol-land and Belgium, among the seamen sea-men of Norway, or in the occupied areas of China and the Dutch Ensf Indies. Everywhere the soul of man is letting the tvrant know the slavery of the body does not end resistance. re-sistance. j No Half Measures ' There can be no half measures. I North, South, East. West and Mid-. ' die West the will of the American Ameri-can people is for complete victory. No compromise with Satan is possible. We shall not rest until all the victims under the Nazi and Japanese yoke are freed. We sha" fight for a complete ,peace as well as a complete victory. The people's revolution is on the march, and the devil and all his angels can not prevail against it. They can not prevail, for on the side of the people is the Lord. "He giveth power to the faint; to them that have no might He in-creaseth in-creaseth strength. . . . They that wait upon the Lord shall mount un with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary;, they shall wplk and not be faint." Strong in the strength of the Lord, we who fight in the people's ! cause will not stop until that cause is won. Common Man Must Control And modern science must be released re-leased from German slavery. International In-ternational cartels that serve American greed and the German will to power must go. Cartels in the peace to come must be subjected subject-ed to international control for the common man, as well as being under un-der adequate control by the respective respec-tive home governments. In this way, we can prevent the Germans from again building a war machine ma-chine while we sleep. With inter-, national monopoly pools under control, con-trol, it will be possibe for inventions inven-tions to serve all the people instead in-stead of only a few. Yes, and when the time of pease comes, the citizens will again have a duty, the supreme duty of sacrificing sac-rificing the lesser interest for the greater interest of the general welfare. wel-fare. Those who write the peace must think of the whole world. There can be no privileged peoples. If we really believe that we are fighting for a people's peace, all the rest becomes easy. Production, yes it will be easy to get production produc-tion without either strikes or sabotage; sabo-tage; production with the wholehearted whole-hearted cooperation between willing will-ing arms and keen brains; enthusiasm, enthu-siasm, zip, energy geared to the tempo of keeping at it everlastingly everlast-ingly day after day. Hitler knows as well as those of us who sit in on the War Production Produc-tion Board meetings that we here in the United States are winning the battle of production. He knows that both labor and business in the United States are doing a most remarkable re-markable job and that his only hope is to crash through to a complete com-plete victory some time during fhe next six months. And then there is the task of transportation to the line of battle bat-tle by truck, by railroad car, by ship. We shall joyously deny ourselves our-selves so that our transportation system is improved by at least 30 per cent. There is going to be some denying. You'll hear plenty about it soon. I need say little about the duty to fight. Some people declare, and Hitler believes, that the American people have grown soft in the last generation.' Hitler agents continually continu-ally preach in South America that we are cowards, unable to use, like the "brave" German soldiers, the Are On the March ft Everywhere the common people I are on the march. By the millions, they are learning to read and a write, learning to think together, A learning to use tools. .1 , nese people are learning to 1 tn'nk and work together in labor movements, some of which may be J extreme or impractical at first, but ja which eventually will settle down 'Je to serve effectively the interests of the common man. When the freedom-loving people march when the farmers have J j an opportunity to buy land at rea. sonable prices and to sell the prod-. prod-. j of their land through their own TO, wganizations, when workers have )0. the opportunity to form unions and ' "argain through them collectively, S and when the children of all the Pple have an opportunity to at- nd schools which teach them truths of the real world in which they ljve when these opportunities opportuni-ties are open to everyone, then the world moves straight ahead. in countries where the abil-y abil-y to read and write has been re-I re-I ' eently acquired or you know Fl J??4 62 per cent of the people in I '"is world won't yet know how to wad and write where the people nave had no long experience in it """g themselves on the basis W ot their own thinking, it is easy for ,eff Synagogues to arise and prostitute "e mind of the common man to 9 l"eir own base ends. Such a dem-tJo? dem-tJo? aKffue may get financial help N "m some person of wealth who if M t Sare of what end the result y be. With this backing, the . .m?gogue may dominale the ,, v-Fl of the People, tend, from '0 Whatever degree of freedom they tJi nave, lead them back into a most graded slavery. Herr Thyssen, ! H16 wealthy German steel man, lit-'l lit-'l realized what he was doing M t en ne gave Hitler enough money Zi of ! e him to Play on the mnds ' ut the German people. a?ne demagogue is the curse of 'e modern world, and of all the .pp emagogueS) the worst are thoSe 'i The people are on the march toward to-ward even fuller freedom than the most fortunate peoples of the world have hitherto enjoyed. No Nazi counter-revolutionist will stop it. The common man will smoke the Hiter stooges out into the open in the United States, in T ati America, and in India. He will destroy de-stroy their influence. No Lavals, no Mussolinis will be tolerated in i free world. The people in their millennial and revolutionary march toward manifesting here on earth the dignity dig-nity that is in every human soul, hold as their credo the Four Freedoms Free-doms enunciated by President Roosevelt in his message to Congress Con-gress on January 6, 1941. These four freedoms are the very core of the revolution for which the United Nations have taken their stand. We who live in the United States may think there is nothing very revolutionary about freedom of re-lisrion. re-lisrion. freedom of expression, and freedom from the fear of secret police. But when we begin to think about the significance of freedom from want for the average man, then we know that the revolution revolu-tion of the past 150 years has not been completed, either here in the United States or in any other nation na-tion in the world. We know that I this revolution cannot stop unti freedom from want has actually been attained. Four Duties And now, as we move forward realising the Four Freedoms of the people's revolution I would like to Socak about four duties: The duty to produce to the limit The duty to transport j : rapidly as possible to the line of battle. The duty to fight with all that is in us. . . The duty to build a peace just, charitable and enduring. . The fourth duty is that which inspires in-spires the other three. ,, We failed in our job after World War No. 1. We did not know how |