THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 2, 1941.
THE PLEDGE TO SMASH HITLER
President Roosevelt's Labour Day Speech
Call For Further Intensive Drive For Production
“ON THIS DAY THIS AMERICAN HOLIDAY – WE CELEBRATE, THE RIGHT OF THE FREE LABOURING OF MEN. THE RESERVA- TION OF THESE RIGHTS, IS NOW VITALLY IMPORTANT NOT ONLY TO US WHO ENJOY THEM BUT TO THE WHOLE FUTURE OF CHRISTIAN CIVILISATION," DECLARED PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT IN HIS BROADCAST SPEECH IN NEW YORK YESTERDAY ON THE OCCASION OF LABOUR DAY.
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The President continued: "American |
with which we jointly dedicate labour now bears a tremendous responsibility ourselves to the production in winning this most brutal and most terrible of all wars.
weapons of freedom, will deter).
of the ordeal through which humanity must pass. We cannot hesitate, we cannot, equivocate in
mine in no small part the length
The defence of America's freedom must, take precedence alm and over every private
"In our factories, shops and arsenals we the great task before us, are building weapons on a great scale, great in its magnitude. To all the battle-fronts of the world are these weapons being despatch- ed by day and night over seas and through the air, and this nation is now devising and deve- loping new weapons of unprecedented power toward the maintenance of Democracy.
over every private, interest. We are engaged on a grim and perilous task. The forces of been let loose by Hitler upon this earth. We must do our full
part in conquering them, for these forces
insane violence have
may be unleashed, on this nation
of
BERLIN BOMBED BY
SOVIET 'PLANES
A special radio an- nouncement from Moscow last night reported Soviet air raids on Berlin, Konigsberg, Danzig, and Memel during Sunday. Incendiary and high explosive bombs were dropped on military targets, dt all four places. One Soviet machine did: not return.---Reuter.
Alexandria Bombed
THE DANGERS AHEAD
The realistic tone of President Roosevelt's" speech and the insistent
against warning
any under-estimate of dan- gers ahead found cordial endorsement in London, writes Reuter's Diploma- tia Correspondent.
The President has been quick to re-echo and underline the warn- ings against complacency which have been uttered by Mr. Winston Churchill and Mr. Anthony Eden in recent days.
The American determination to accelerate to the utmost, the pro- duction of war materials, was es- 'pecially welcomed in London.'
Moreover, it was noted with pleasure and satisfaction that the expression of this. determination showed the President's clear grasp needs on of the urgent pressing the supply front.
The speech exactly parallels the
to
as we go about our business
Hostile aircraft dropped bombs determination of the British Gov- protecting the proper interests of
on Sunday night on Alexandria ernment and British Labour our country. "Why are we doing this? Why against Hitlerism in increasing
and the Suez Canal, area states accelerate similar The task of defeating Hitler may a Ministry of the Interior com- Home.-Reuter. are we determined to devote our, volume each day. But these be long and arduous, said the Pre-munique issued in Cairo yester- entire industrial effort to the enemies also know that our sident.
prosecution of a war which ac- tually has not yet touched bur own shores?
"We are not a warlike people; never sought glory as nation of warriors. We are not
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American effort is not yet enough
and that unless we step up the total of our production and more greatly safeguard it on its Journey to the battlefields, these enemies will take heart in push- ing their attack in old fields and
interested in aggression. We are not interested as the Dictators new.
are --- in looting. We do not Solemn Warning
Covet One square inch of the territory of any other nation.
they are making a very danger- ous assumption.
I give a solemn warning to "Our vast effort and the unity those who think that Hitler has of purpose which inspires that been blocked and halted that effort are due solely to our re- cognition of the fact that our fundamental rights - including the rights of Labour threatened by Hitler's violent at- tempt to rule the world.
The Bond
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There never has been a moment in history when the Americans were not ready to stand up as free men and fight for their rights. In times of national emergency one fact is brought home clearly to us decisively that all our rights are inter- dependent.
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day. There are a few appeasers and Nazi sympathisers who say that it
cannot be done.
ME TO NEGO- THEY ASK TIATE WITH HITLER ~TO PRAY FOR CRUMBS FROM HIS VICTORIOUS TABLE.
They do in fact ask me to be. come a modern Benedict Arnold and. betray all hold dear, my devotion to our freedom, churches, to our country.
course have rejected.
I reject it again.
Great Privilege
our This
When in an area your enemy scoms to be making slower progress than he did the year Instead, I know I speak for the before, that is the very moment conscience and the determination to strike with redoubled force of the American people when
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to throw more energy into say we shall do everything in our the job of defeating him to power to crush Hitler and his Nazi end forever and all time a forces. menace of world, conquest, and thereby end all talk or thought of any place founded on com promise with evil itself. We knew that a free labour system is the very foundation of a functioning democracy. We know that one of the first acts of
American workers, American farmers, American business men and American churchmen-all of us together-have the great res- ponsibility and the great privilege. of labouring to build a democratic
Two persons were killed and 43 injured at Alexandria and slight damage was done in both regions. No casualties, are reported from the Canal area-Reuter,
production at
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Seven conductors employed by the Kowloon Motor Bus Company were each fined $5 by Mr. H. C.
at
this Kowloon Macnamara
allowing excessive morning for numbers of passengers on buses.
NO APPEASEMENT
OF JAPAN IN PROSPECT
WHILE PRESIDENT Roosevelt enunciat- .
world on enduring foundations. ed no new American policies or further steps
The rights of freedom of the Axle dictatorships has been May it be said on some future worship would mean nothing to wipe out all
principles and Labour Day by some future Pre-in his present policies in yesterday's broad- without freedom of speech and standards which labour has been sident of the United States that cast, interventionists in Washington welcome
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servation and advancement.
In Forbidden. Philosophy
well-Reuter.
the rights of free labour, as we able to establish for, its, own. pre- we did our work faithfully and know them to-day, could not survive without rights of free enterprise. That destructable bond betweeń all us Americans. Inter-dependence of interests,
an
'Trade Unionism is a forbidden philosophy under these rule-or-
privileges and opportunities ruin dictators. For trade union-
ism demands freedom of
ex-.
inter-dependence of rights. that pression and peaceful assembly.
SAIGON
is what unites usmen and wo-Trade unionism has helped to REPORT
men of all sections. That is why
we have been able to defy and give everyone, who toils a posi- frustrate enemies who Kelieved tion of dignity which is his due.
his emphatic assertion that there will be no 'negotiated peace as far as he is concerned.
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They likewise heard with satisfaction his declaration that he will not beg for crumbs from. Hitler's victorious table, as well as his appeal for redoubled efforts now that the
The present position of labour INCORRECT Nazi war machine is being, slowed down by
they could divide us and control in the United States as an inter- us from within.
Naval Strategy These energies all know we possess a strong navy-gaining in strength. They know that that navy as long as the navies of the British Empire, the Nether- lands, Norway and Russiä exist -can together:/ guarantee free- dom of the seas.N
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dependent unit in the life of the nation has not come about by chance. It has been a revolu-
The report that a Ger
Russia's valiant fight.
Similar welcome is given, his defeated, If Americans are to
tionary process of healthy demo man Consulate was open-assertion that Germany must be cracy at work.
ed in Saigon on August 25 Hitler has not worked; that way. He will not, cannot work is incorrect.
that way, Just as he denlea
continue to enjoy the rights..they now enjoy, although there is re- gret in some American quarters
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all rights to Individuals, ho Although all Saigon news-that he did not speak in plainer must deny all rights to groups papers formally, announced the terms in regard to what, that is, -- of labour or business or opening of the Consulate, it is likely to involve. These anemies, know that if learning or the church.
now understood that the office those other navies wero
He has abolished trade unions opened by, the German Consular stroyed the American navy as ruthlessly as he has persecut- oficial, Herr, Neuman, who arrived cannot now on In the futura ed religion. No group of Ameri- in Sajgon recently, actually is maintain freedom of the spas cans has realised more clearly his own office as representative against all the rest of the what Nazi domination means than in Indo-Ching of the Wiesbaden World.
has organised labour what it Armistice Commission-Reuter. These enemies know our army means to their standards of liv-
is Increasing daily in all rounding, their freedom, their lives. CASE ADJOURNED
The speech la regarded calculated to prepare. Americans for giving up many thinga,they, now have, in, order. that the madation of War materiala
Increase
MENT THAT AMERICAN WEA THE PRESIDENT'S STATE
QUIET CONVICTION
ALTHOUGH INDIFFERENT RECEPTION DUE TO BAD AT MOSPHERIC CONDITIONS MARRED THE EUROPEAN TRANSMISSION OF PRESIDENT- ROOSEVELT'S LABOUR DAY SPEECH MOST OF THE PRE- SIDENT'S WORDS WERE AUDI- BLE TO SHORT WAVE LISTEN- ERS IN LONDON
President. Roosevelt spoke with
strength, and these enemies know No group has a greater stake in ga that to-day the chief American the defeat of Nazlism, in the At the request. of Det.-Sgt. W. PONS OF WAR ARE BEING calm deliberation and listeners fighters, in the battles now raging preservation of fundamental free-C Goodwin, Lal Wo, 30, and LA, SENT DAILY TO ALL FIGHT- were struck by the quiet convic- are those engaged in American doms, in continuance of democracy Sung, 18, were remanded for 48 ING FRONTS IS WELCOMED tion which appeared through his industry employers and em- throughout the world."
hours by Mr, H. C. Macnamara. AS AN INDICATION THAT measured tones as he spoke of the ployees alike. These chemies Infinitely. More
at Kowloon this morning on THERE IS NO CHANGE IN Nazi threat to labour standards Irnow that the course of Amort
charge of having robbed the oc- AMERICA'S POLICY OF SEND all over the world.. can production in the past year We have already achieved cupants of No. 17, Woosung ING SUPPLIES TO CHINA AND The 15-minute speech was fol has shown onormous gains and much;" It is imperative that we Street, third floor, of $500 and a RUSSIA, AND THAT WASHING lowed by the playing of the the product of, these industrien is achieve Infinitely more. The quantity Jewellery on Sunday TON IS NOT APPEASING" American national anthem by o
JAPAN. REUTER; Range military band. — Reutor."" battle-frontal single-mindedness and sacrifice evening.
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