CREATED AT QUEBEC

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 202, 27 August 1943, Page 5

CREATED AT QUEBEC

PLAN FOR VICTORY SPEECH BY ROOSEVELT Recd. 7 p.m. .Rugby, Aug. 25. President Roosevelt, in a broadcast speech to the Canadian Parliament, said that in the north-west I’acific the relatively small campaign had been assisted by the Japanese themselves in the elimination of the last Japanese from Attn and Alaska. “We have been told that Japan will' never surrender,” he said. “Their headlong retreat satisfies us just as well.” The President went on: “Great' councils are being held here on thei tree and honoured soil of Canada— : councils which look to future conduct! of the war and years of building new i progress for mankind. To these coun-; cils Canadians and Americans alike again welcome that wise, good, and gallant gentleman, Mr. Winston Churchill. “The combined staffs have been sitting around the table talking things over, discussing ways and means in the manner of friends, in the manner of partners, I may even say in the manner of members of the same fam-

ily. We talked constructively of our common purposes—our determination to achieve victory in the shortest possible time —our essential co-operation ! with our great brave fighting allies, and we arrived harmoniously at certain definite conclusions. “In due time we shall communicate the secret information of Hie Quebec conference to Germany, Italy, and Japan. We shall communicate this information to our enemies in the only language which heir 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 knew 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 the utter inability to understand, and therefore respect, the 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 of Japan. That is why our enemies are doing their desperate best to misrepresent the 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 and resources and the very lives of our sons and daughters because a band of gangsters in the community of nations declines to recognise the fundamentals of decent human conduct. We are making sure this time that, the lesson will be driven home to them once and ■for all. We are going to be rid of out- ! laws this time. “It is no secret that at Quebec there was much talk of the 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 better days.’ “I am everlastingly angry only at those who assert, vociferously that the Four Freedoms and the Atlantic Charter are nonsense because they are unattainable. If they had lived in century and a-half ago they would have sneered and said the Declaration of Independence was utter piffle. If they had lived nearly 1000 years ago they would have laughed uproariously at the ideals of the Magna Charta: if they lived several thousand years ago they would have derided Moses when he came from the mountain with the Ten Commandments. We have conceded rhat these great landmarks oi' human freedom are not always lived up to to-day, and the good old world cannot arrive at Utopia overnight. but I would rather be a builder than a wrecker."--8.0.W.