WAR NOT YET WON

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25660, 7 October 1944, Page 7

WAR NOT YET WON

LONG FIGHT TO BERLIN PRESIDENT’S WARNING (Rec. 11 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 6. President Roosevelt, in his second election campaign speech, said:-“It is my plain duty to reiterate that this war for the preservation of our civilisation is not yet won. Our forces and those of our Allies are steadily and relentlessly carrying the attack to the enemy. The Allied armies under General Eisenhower have waged during the last four months one of the most brilliant campaigns in military history, which has carried us from the beaches of Normandy and Southern France into the frontiers of Germany itself. “ Our naval task forces in the Pacific have advanced to attack the Japanese more than 5000 miles to' the west of Pearl Harbour, but German and Japanese resistance remains as determined and fanatical as ever. The guns of Hitler’s Gestapo are silencing those German officers with sense enough to know that every day the fighting continues means that much more ruin and destruction for their beaten country. “We shall have to fight our way across the Rhine. We may have to fight every inch of the way to Berlin, but we Americans and pur British, Russian, French, and Polish Allies — all the massed forces of the United Nations —will not stop short of our final goal. We have seen our civilisation in deadly peril, and we have successfully met the challenge, due to the steadfastness of our Allies, to the aid we have been able to give our Allies, and to the unprecedented outpouring of American man-power, productivity, and ingenuity, and the magnificent courage and enterprise of our fighting men and military leadership. “What is now being won in battle must not be lost by lack of vision or faith, or by division among ourselves or our Allies. We must and will continue to be united with our Allies in a powerful world organisation which is ready and able to keep the peace, if necessary by'force. We owe it to our posterity, to our heritage of freedom, and .to our God to devote the rest of our lives and all our capabilities to the building of a solid, durable structure of world peace.”