Roosevelt Wishes Hitler Had Been At Quebec

Northern Advocate, 26 August 1943, Page 3

Roosevelt Wishes Hitler Had Been At Quebec

8.0. W. 3 p.m.) RUGBY. Aug. 25. President Roosevelt, in a broadcast speech to the Canadian Parliament, said that in the North-West Pacific the relatively small campaign had been assisted by the Japanese themselvea in elimination of the last Japanese from Attu and Kiska. “We have been told that Japan would never surrender. Their headlong retreat satisfies us just as well. The President went on: "Great councils are being held on the free and honoured soil of Canada —councils which look to the future conduct of the war and years of building new progress for mankind. To these councils. Canadians and Americans alike again welcome that wise, good and gallant gentleman, Mr Churchill. The combined staffs have been sitting around the table talking things over and discussing ways and means in a manner of friends, in a manner of partners—l may even say in a manner of members of the same family. We have talked constructively of our common purposes—our determination to achieve victory in the shortest possible time —our essential co-operation with our great and brave fighting Allies and we have arrived harmoniously at certain definite conclusions. Surrender Would Pay “In due time we shall communicate the secret information of the Quebec conference to Germany. Italy and Japan. We shall communicate this information to our enemies in the only language their twisted minds seem capable of understanding. “Sometimes I wish that great master of intuition, the Nazi leader, could be present in spirit at the Quebec conference. If he and his generals had known our plans they would realise that discretion is still the better part of valour and that surrender would pay them better now than later. The evil characteristic that makes a Nazi a Nazi is utter inability to understand. therefore respect for qualities or rights of his fellow men. His only method of dealing with his neighbour is first to delude him with lies, then attack him treacherously, then beat him down and step on him, then either kill or enslave.him. “The same is true of fanatical militarists in Japan. That is why our enemies are doing their desperate best to misrepresent purposes and results of this Quebec conference. They still seek to divide and conquer the Allies who refuse to be divided just as cheerfully as they refuse to be conquered We spend our energies, resources and the very lives of our sons and daughters because a band of gangsters in a community or nation declines to recognise the fundamentals of decent human conduct, making sure that this time me lesson will 'be driven home to them once and for all. “We are going. to be. rid of the outlaws this time. It is no secret that <;i Quebec there is much talk of a post-war world. There is a longing in the air. It is not a longing to go back to what they call the good old days. I would rather believe we can achieve new and better days.” Parallel With Past "f am everiaslingty angry only a: (hose who asseri vociferously dial tln- Four Freedoms and (he Adamic Charter are nonsense because they are unattainable. If they had lived a century and a halt' ago they would have sneered and said that a declaration o! independence 'was liter piffle. If they had lived nearly 1000 years ago they would have laugh! ed uproariously at the ideals of tire Magna Carta If they had lived several thousand years ago they would have derided Moses when he came from the mountain with the 10 Commandments. We concede that these great landmarks ol' human freedom are not always lived up to today and the good old world cannot arrive at a Utopia overnight but I would rather be a builder than a wrecker.” ,