Prelude to War Page #4

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..and avoid all foreign entanglements"

I haven't the slightest idea

of European affairs."

In the event of war in Europe, I think

we should stay out of it entirely

And all our efforts should be made

to keep out of the fight.!

Let Europe fight their own battles.

They mean nothing to us."

We should mind out own business.

-By all means, NO."

Yes, fight.... NO.... NO.. Yes"

If my country calls, YES."

"-NO!"

We simply did not want to understand that our

individual and national problems were...

..and always will be dependant upon

the problems of the whole world.

And we had individual and national

problems to worry about. Plenty of them.

Just as Germany, ltaly and Japan had,

but we faced it in a democratic way.

We passed laws to give working men

a chance to improve their lot.

We established an insurance program

for those without jobs.

It began to give old folks protection

against want and hunger

We organized the C.C.C. to provide our

young men with healthy and useful employment.

A Federal works program came into being and

changed the face of our nation with new roads,

..bridges, schools.

It built great new dams that brought

electricity of millions of our people.

These were some of our accomplishments,

but there were others, not so credible.

We turned our backs on the League of Nations.

We passed theTariff Act to

..to set a higher wall of isolation

around us.

We encouraged lawlessness with

the farce of prohibition.

But in spite of these mistakes, we never had

a thought of losing our free institutions.

John Q. Public still ran the country

He had his choice of voting for Dewey,

Wilke, Roosevelt or anybody else.

In Germany they had the choice of voting

for Hitler, Hitler, or Hitler.

Over here, John Q. still read

what he pleased.

And although he heard of books

being burned in other countries,

..he would have laughed, if anybody

told him his books would be burned.

And on Sunday, if he felt like it,

John Q. went to any church he pleased.

Most of all, he got a kick out

of seeing his kids grow up.

The average American was quite unconscious

of the fact that some people,

..had this in mind for the little John Q's

"To die for the Emperor is to live forever."

Japanese Army Slogan

"Three cheers for war, noble and beautiful

above all." --Mussolini

Yes, while their children were

being trained to kill,

..John Q. 's kids were giving their

pennies to help them have life.

And when we saw these men on the

news reels, quite often we laughed.

To us they looked like characters

in a musical comedy.

But they weren't comic, they weren't

funny, they were deadly serious.

They were out for world conquest.

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