#Dust bowl fireside chats series

We instituted a policy of aid for the democracies-the Nations which have fought for the continuation of human liberties. We have added substantially to our splendid Navy, and we have mustered our manpower to build up a new Army which is already worthy of the highest traditions of our military service. This further solidified our hemisphere against the common danger.Īnd then, a year ago, we launched, and are successfully carrying out, the largest armament production program we have ever undertaken.

#Dust bowl fireside chats series

It is unmistakably apparent to all of us that, unless the advance of Hitlerism is forcibly checked now, the Western Hemisphere will be within range of the Nazi weapons of destruction.įor our own defense we have accordingly undertaken certain obviously necessary measures:įirst, we have joined in concluding a series of agreements with all the other American Republics. European conquest was but a step toward ultimate goals in all the other continents. The first and fundamental fact is that what started as a European war has developed, as the Nazis always intended it should develop, into a world war for world domination.Īdolf Hitler never considered the domination of Europe as an end in itself. We cannot afford to approach them from the point of view of wishful thinkers or sentimentalists. The pressing problems that confront us are military and naval problems. Our future independence is bound up with the future independence of all of our sister Republics. It is appropriate that I do this for now, as never before, the unity of the American Republics is of supreme importance to each and every one of us and to the cause of freedom throughout the world. The members of this Board are the Ambassadors and Ministers of the American Republics in Washington. I am speaking tonight from the White House in the presence of the Governing Board of the Pan American Union, the Canadian Minister, and their families.