HITLER’S DREAM

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24296, 13 May 1940, Page 8

HITLER’S DREAM

WORLD DOMINATION ATTITUDE OF AMERICA PRESIDENT'S VIEWS GUARDIAN OF CULTURE (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraphv-Copyright) MONTREAL. May 10. (Received May 12. at 8 p.m.) President Roosevelt, addressing the Pan-American Scientific Congress, said: “All here are heavy hearted at the tragic news that three more independent nations have been cruelly invaded by force of arms. The whole world has seen attack follow threat on so many occasions and places during the last few years that we have come to the reluctant conclusion that continuance of these processes of arms presents a definite challenge to continuation of the type of civilisation to which all of. us in the three Americas are accustomed The dim, unpleasant possibility that other continents might become so involved in wars brought on by a school of destruction and that the Americas might have to become the guardian of, western culture and (he protector of Christian civilisation was then merely a fear. To-day ‘ the fear has become a fact and the inheritance which we hoped to share with the whole world is temporarily left largely in our keeping. It is our compelling duty to guard and enrich that legacy and preserve it for the world which must be x’eborn from the ashes of the present disaster. “To-day we know that until recent weeks very many citizens of the Americas believed themselves wholly safe from the impact of attacks against civilisation which were progressing elsewhere. Yet. speaking in terms of the moving of men, guns, planes and bombs, every American acre is closer to the homes of the modern conquerors’ scenes of attacks in Europe than was the case in historic efforts to dominate the world in bygone centuries. From the viewpoint of conquests it is a shorter distance from Europe to San Francisco than it was for the ships and legions of Caesar to move from Rome to Spain or to Britain. To-day it is four or five hours from the continent of Africa to the continent of South America, where it was loui cr five weeks for the armies of Napoleon to move from Paris to Rome or to Poland, “ Those who seek to dominate vast continental areas, if successful, will, we must now admit, enlarge their wild dream and encompass every human being and every mile of the earth’s surface. The most immediate issue that the Americas are facing is, Can we continue our peaceful construction if all other continents embrace by preference or by compulsion a wholly different principle of life? “ I am a pacifist and you are pacifists, but I believe that through overwhelming majorities, in the long run if necessary we will act together to protect our culture, freedom and civilisation.” Ninety per cent, of thousands of telegrams favour President Roosevelt’s speech.