SYMBOL OF WILL TO SURVIVE
Speech By Colonel Knox
NEW YORK, November 21.
“This great vessel is a symbol of a nation’s will to survive in a world at war. We know on which side of this fight our hopes and interests lie,” said Colonel Frank Knox,'Secretary of the Navy, when the new United States 35,000-ton battleship Indiana was launched today, six months ahead of schedule.
Colonel Knox declared: “We’ve proclaimed our resolve that our side shall win this struggle which shakes the world. None can say when the actions of our avowed enemies may drag us into complete belligerency, but should tiie day come the burden upon the navy will be the greatest in our history. “It’s no accident that the Indiana has been launched six months ahead of schedule. We all know the need for record-breaking speed. The perils which loom across the seas are not merely threats to our national security, for it is not a struggle between rival powers, but a conflict of hostile ideas.”
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 51, 24 November 1941, Page 7
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