SINISTER RECORD

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 171, 22 July 1941, Page 7

SINISTER RECORD

NAZI CONQUESTS Keen Interest In Britain In Roosevelt Message British omcial Wireless. Rec. 1.30 p.m. RUGBY, July 21

Great interest has been taken in this country in President Roosevelt's message to Congress asking for a declaration of full or limited national emergency as a means of retaining conscripts and National Guardsmen on active service for the duration of the present emergency. Interest is specially centred on two points of the message—first, that the danger confronting the United States was "infinitely greater" than a year ago; and. secondly, that the mcnace with which the United States is faced originated from Germanv and the Nazi party aspirations. President Roosevelt said the nation must prepare to defend the entire western hemisphere. "I must refer again," he said, "to the sequence of conquests—German conquests or attacks which continued uninterruptedly throughout several years—all the way from the coup against Austria to the campaign against Russia. "Every move up and down and across Europe and into Asia and into Africa has been conducted according to a time schedule, utilising in every case overwhelming superiority not only in material but in trained men." I The President stressed the point that any present weakening of the United States Army would be an "act of bad faith toward our neighbours namely Latin America." Each campaign had been based on a preliminary assurance of safety or nonaggression to the intended victim. Each campaign had been based on disarming, fear, or gaining time until the German Government was full" ready to throw treaties and pacts tu the winds and simultaneously launch an attack in overwhelming force.