AMERICA’S DUTY

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 143, 19 May 1941, Page 8

AMERICA’S DUTY

“DELIVERING THE TOOLS.” (United Press Association—Copyright) (2.55 p.m.) \\ a&IUaGi'ON, May lb. The Secretary of State (Air Cordell Hull), in his broadcast address inaugurating World Trade Week, said : “Tncre’s little use talking and planning foreign trade unless the outcome of the war is favourable to, the free peoples. At present our foreign trade consists of increasingly making tools for defence and placing them in the hands of the nations resisting unlawful attack. ’This trade is futile if the goods don’t reach those for whom they are intended. “When we sot ourselves a task wc finish it. We will not permit our purpose to be frustrated. Only thus can we look forward to a brighter day. “During the past year we’ve seen ruthless aggression and enslavement, and nations too weak to resist crushed by unlxiunded military frightfulness. In the conquered territory organised brutality and coercion have been carried to the utmost.

“The safety of our nation and of every free nation is in mortal danger. It is a mistaken assumption that two oceans plus a desire for peace will protect us. The dictators’ paramount purpose is to secure control of the high seas, which is essential to their programme of world domination. Every consideration of our own defence safety requires that wc see Britain receives adequate supplies for successful resistance.

“We must not he weakened by internal division; vve must devote the whole of our energy to essential tasks and avoid delays caused by business complacency or strikes which gravely endanger the national safety. The greatest national effort must lie made or wo shall find ourselves surrounded by aggressors and compelled lo fight virtually alone against great odds for our national existence.” THE NEW ORDER.

Air Hull outlined tno principles on which the policies of the world must bo based after the war, such as the avoidance of extreme nationalism, no discrimination, raw materials available to all nations, international agreements protecting the interests of consuming countries, an international finance structure facilitating essential enterprises, ami the continuous development of all countries permitting payment consonant with the universal welfare.

"Unless we have a system of open trade it will bo impossible in future to buy or sell except on military terms; unless a.system of open trade becomes firmly established there will be chronic political instability and recurrent economic collapse. “In the final reckoning the problem is establishing the foundations of an international order of independentnations co-operating freely—a world order not new, but renewed, which liberates rather than enslaves. “We cannot, do this until vve are free from the scourge of military menace and malign political intrigue of the basest character; only then will foreign trade revert from cargoes of weapons and explosives to commodities that nourish, heal, and enrich. “This nation is resolved to evade no issues and to face harsh facts. AYc believe we can create a safer and more prosperous world; wo have the tools, resources, brains and hands, but first the tide of forep must be turned back.”