PRESIDENT APPEALS FOR FULL EFFORT

Southland Times, Issue 24447, 29 May 1941, Page 5

PRESIDENT APPEALS FOR FULL EFFORT

RESISTANCE TO GERMAN AGGRESSION

ALL MEASURES TO SECURE SAFETY OF SUPPLIES FOR BRITAIN

(United Press Association —Telegraph Copyright) (Rec. 1.45 a.m.) WASHINGTON, May 27. A state of unlimited national emergency in the United States has been proclaimed by President Roosevelt. The President made this announcement at the conclusion of a world-wide broadcast tonight. “With a profound consciousness of my responsibilities to my countrymen and my country’s cause, I tonight issued a proclamation that an unlimited national emergency exists and requires the strengthening of our defences to the extreme limit of our national power and authority,” said the President. “The nation expects all individuals and groups to play their full parts without stint and without selfishness.” The proclamation calls upon loyal states and loyal leaders and officials to co-operate with the civilian defence agencies to assure internal security against foreigndirected subversion and to put every community in order for a maximum productive effort and minimum waste and the elimination of unnecessary friction. The proclamation appeals to all citizens to place the nation’s needs first in mind and action “to the end that we may mobilize and have ready for instant defensive use all the physical powers, moral strength and material resources of the nation.” The proclamation enjoins workmen and employers to merge their lesser differences in a larger effort to ensure the survival of the only kind of government which recognizes the rights of labour and capital.