STOP PRESS NEWS

Waikato Times, Volume 129, Issue 21524, 12 September 1941, Page 4

STOP PRESS NEWS

AMERICA'S DETERMINATION WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 ‘•The time has definitely come when, to defend ourselves, we must take action,” said Mr Roosevelt in his broadcast. ‘Words flung across the Atlantic will not stop the menace of the submarine. With our own shipping being insolently attacked in oue own waters we have reached the stage when we have to make a stand. If we do not our ability to defend ourselves later will be seriously weakened. Too many nations have fallen because they refused to look the Hitler monster in the eyo until it was at their throats. America will not make that mistake. ‘‘Hitler has flung out on paper an imaginary barrier in certain seas in which he says no shipping of any nationality for any purpose must sail. This is a direct challenge to America’s policy of the freedom of the seas. Kis pretended barriers reach far across the Atlantic, which always has been, and always will be, a free, unrestricted waterway for the trading ships of the world. ‘ The time lias now come,’’ added Mr Roosevelt, “for you and I to see the cold, inexorable necessity to answer this challenge which seeks to make our children and our children's children staves. America has now no further delusions about Nazism. Hitler's unrestricted U-boat campaign is part of his policy to gair complete control of tho seas, to pave the way for world domination. America will never allow tho seas, whether it it is in the Atlantic or the Pacific, to be controlled for selfish reasons by anyone. The seas must remain open, no matter what it costs. We do not seek war but we do not seek peace if we have to buy it with the unlawful sinkings of all ships without warn-