MOULDERS OF NEW ORDER

Southland Times, Issue 24841, 5 September 1942, Page 5

MOULDERS OF NEW ORDER

MESSAGE TO YOUTH (Rec. 8 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 3. “For many years the Axis Powers have blatantly represented themselves as the champions of youth. Now the world knows the Nazis, the Fascists and the militarists of Japan have nothing to offer youth except death.” Mr Roosevelt made this statement in a broadcast address to the youth of the world at the International Students’ Convention. “The cause of the United Nations,’ he said, “is the hope of youth itself. It is the hope of the new generation and of generations to come for the new life that can be lived in freedom, justice and decency. This fact is becoming clearer every day to the young people of Europe, where the Nazis are trying to create youth organiaztions built on the Nazi pattern. It is not a pattern devised by youth for youth, but a pattern devised by Hitler and imposed upon youth by the mental, forcible feeding of a diet of false facts, distortions and prohibitions, all backed by the guns of the Gestapo. “We exult in the thought that it is the young, free men and women of the United Nations, not the wound up robots of the slave States who will mould the shape of the new world.” In a special message to American soldiers, sailors and airmen abroad the President said: “You are conducting yourselves in a manner that is worthy of the highest and proudest traditions of our nation. Your fathers never fought with greater gallantry or more selfless devotion. We at home are supremely conscious of our obligation to you now and in the future. We will not let you down. This Government has accepted the responsibility of seeing to it that wherever possible work will be provided for those willing and able to work. “That responsibility will continue after the war, when you come home. We do not propose to involve you, as last time, in a domestic economic mess of our own making. We have profited by past mistakes. This time we shall know how to make full use of the victory. This time the achievements of our fighting forces will not be thrown away by political cynicism, timidity and incompetence. “When you youths lay aside your guns at the end of the war you cannot lay aside your duty to the future. War events and the common needs of all humanity are joining the culture of Asia with the culture of Europe and the Americas. We cannot attain the fulness of our ideals overnight. This will be a long, hard bitter fight There will be still an enormous job to do long after the last Axis bombing plane is shot from the skies, but we do believe that, with Divine guidance, we can progress steadily towards the highest goals man ever imagined.”