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FOR RELEASE: SATURDAY P.M. JAN. 3
SUNDAY A.M. JAN 4.

STATEMENT OF THE ARTISTS SOCIETIES FOR NATIONAL DEFENSE
THE ARTISTS SOCIETIES FOR NATIONAL DEFENSE HAVE BEEN AT WORK FOR SOME MONTHS TO FORMULATE A PROGRAM BY MEANS OF WHICH ARTISTS COULD AID IN THE DEFENSE PROGRAM. JAPAN'S ATTACK ON THE UNITEED STATES CRITICIALLY INTENSIFIED THE DEMAND FOR EVERY CITIZEN TO PARTICIPATE ACTIVELY TO WIN THE WAR.
OUR MEETING DECEMVER 17 AT THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, WHICH WAS ATTENDED BY 600 AND FROM WHICH 300 MORE WERE TURNED AWAY, CRYSTALLIZED THE DESIRE OF ARTISTS TO JOIN IN THE MOBILIZATION OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FOR VICTORY. BUT ONE SPIRIT WAS SHOWN, DO EVERYTHING POSIBLE TO WIN THE WAR. ARTISTS REVEALED THEMSELVES AS UNITED IN THIS END.
TODAY OUR CHIEF NEED IS TO RECONCILE OPPOSING INTERESTS WHICH THREATEN THIS UNITY OF SPIRIT. UNITY MUST NOT BE IMPERILED BY SELFISH MOTIVES OR UNREASONABLE INDIVIDUALS. THE OBJECTIVES WE ASPIRE TO ARE TOO GREAT, THE HOUR IS TOO CRITICAL, AND FOR DISUNITY TO BE PERMITTED.
USES OF ART IN WAR ARE MANY. BUILDING CIVILIAN AND MILITARY MORALE REMAINS PARAMOUNT. FOR, THOUGH THE NATION IS UNITED BY THE FIRST INVASION IN ITS HISTORY, NEVERTHELESS THE PATRIOTIC AMERICAN PEOPLE HAS TO BE INFORMED AND INSTRUCTED AS TO HOW IT MAY BEST PROMOTE THE PURPOSES OF THE WAR.
OUR PROGRAM, WHICH HAS ALWAYS BEEN TENTATIVE, ENVISIONS A WIDE RANGE OF SERVICE, INCLUDING THE DOCUMENTARIES BY ARTISTS OF THIS HISTORIC EPOCH IN AMERICAN LIFE, THE USE OF ATR FOR RECREATION AND THERAPY, FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARMED FORCES AND OF THE CIVIL POPULATION, FOR THE IMMEDIATE INFORMATION OF OUR PEOPLE ON MATTERS OF VITAL IMPORT, SUCH AS AIR RAID DRILL, FIRE FIGHT AND FIRST AID, AND FOR MANY RELATED ENDS. THE DEFINITIVE PROGRAM, OBVIOUSLY WILL BE ESTABLISHED BY THE GOVERNMENT IN RELATION TO ITS ENTIRE POLICY AND PLAN FOR PROSECUTING THE WAR. TO THE FULLEST OF OUR CAPACITIES, WE SHALL COOPERATE WITH WHATEVER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES ARE CREATED FOR THESE PURPOSES.
ONCE MORE, AS IN OUR RESOLUTION OF UNITY WIRED TO THE PRESIDENT ON DECEMBER 8 AND IS IN OUR RESOLUTION ADOPTED