BEING MADE MANIFEST

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 100, 30 April 1942, Page 5

BEING MADE MANIFEST

PRESIDENT SPEAKS

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) WASHINGTON, April 28. I "It is nearly five months since the attack on Pearl Harbour, for two years prior to which the United j States had been gearing up to a high level of production of muni- I tions. Yet our war effort has done little to dislocate the normal lives of most people," said President Roosevelt in a world broadcast today. "Since then, we' have dispatched forces—hundreds of thousands of them —to bases and battle fronts thousands of miles from home. We have stepped up war production on a scale testing our industrial power, our engineering genius, and economic structure to the utmost. We have no illusions. This will be a tough and long job. "American warships are now in combat in the north and south Pacific and in the Indian Ocean. American troops have taken stations in South America, Greenland, Iceland, the British Isles, the Near East, the Middle East, the Far East, Australia, and many islands in the Pacific. American warplanes, manned by Americans, are flying in actual combat over all continents and oceans. RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE. "On the European front the most important development in the past year ha a oeen the crushing offensive of the great armies of Russia against the powerful German army. "These Russian forces have destroyed and are destroying more of the armed power of our enemies troops, planes, tanks, and guns—than all the other United Nations put together. "Recently we received news of a change of Government in what we I used to know as the Republic of France. We hoped for the maintenance of a French Government which would strive to regain independence, and re-establish the principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity and restore the historic culture of France. "We are now concerned lest those who have recently come to power may seek to force the brave French people into submission to Nazi despotism. TERRITORY BARRED TO AXIS. "The United Nations . will take measures to prevent the use of French territory in any part of the world for military purposes by the Axis. Such action is essential to prevent assistance to the armies, navies, and air forces of Germany, Italy, and Japan. "The overwhelming majority of the French people understand that the fight of the United Nations is fundamentally their fight, and that our victory means the restoration of a free and independent France and the saving of France from the slavery which would be imposed upon her by external enemies and internal traitors. "There is good reason to believe the Japanese southward advance has been checked. Australia and New Zealand an much other territory will be bases for offensive action, and we are determined that the territory which has been lost shall be regained. "Our great war effort must be carried through to its victorious conclusion by the indomitable will and determination of the people. It must not be impeded by the faint heart, of those who put their own selfish interests I over the interests of the nation. Above all, it shall not be imperilled by a handful of noisy traitors and betrayers of America and Christianity itself."