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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 2, 1941.
CHINA MAIL
WINDSOR HOUSE
STIRRING WORDS
We now have some days'
· perspective on what Mr. Churchill called "those stirring, august and fate- ful Presidential words" by which America
was
pledged to a "total ef- fort" which will be con- tinued and increased "un- til total victory has been won.' If Mr. Roosevelt's speech had been merely Presidential words it would still have been a fine speech. It was more | than that. The words have manifestly been ac- cepted as those of the people speaking through the President.
"We, the people of the United States," have been heard the world over. From London the words went out in thirty lan- guages. Swiss newspapers carried the full text over the border into unoc- cupied France. In Tokyo, twenty-four hours after its delivery, the American message crowded Hitler's Sunday speech-the same old speech--into second place. In Belgrade, blow- ing hot and cold, four newspapers printed prac- tically all of what Pre- sident Roosevelt said.
The voice of America was not, and could not be, suppressed, even in Ger- many, Italy and the oc- cupied countries. Hitler
Zater
WHO SAID WE WERE FRIENDS, ANYWAY?
JJA
(The "noises off" would seem to be the Aris raging that seizure of Axis ships in American waters will be regarded as an “unfriendly ad.")