Viewing page 15 of 56

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

1. THE ISSUE
A. General Themes
a. We are fighting for survival as a nation. The actual existence of this Nation as a politically independent state depends on winning this war.
b. We are fighting for freedom and against slavery.
c. We are fighting for four specific freedoms-freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want, freedom from fear.
d. If we lose, these freedoms will be possible nowhere in the world; if we win they may be possible everywhere in the world.
e. The meaning of each of these four freedoms can be expressed in simple, everyday terms. Also the meaning of lost freedom, particularly as that meaning has revealed itself in Axis-conquered countries.
2. THE ENEMY
A. General Themes
a. This war is the result of a scheme for world domination originated within the Nazi party many years ago, even before the Nazis came to power in Germany.
b. The plot sought not more expansion for Germany, Italy, and Japan, but world domination.
c. Degradation and suffering in the conquered countries have been the results thus far. This was the fate of the oppressor nations as well as the defeated ones.
d. Beware of overconfidence. The United States has never lost a war, but neither has Japan.
e. Understand the power, cruelty, and treachery of the Axis.
f. Combat the American tendency to be "scared in spurts," to settle back into pro-war calm after momentary outbursts of anger and alarm.
g. Point out the opposite danger-surrendering to the defeatism which is a standard Nazi weapon.
h. Warn against accepting rumors for fact and of the peril which lies in "being a stooge for Hitler" by repeating rumors.
i. Point continually and forcefully to the established world strategy of the Axis-to divide and then conquer.
j. Label and combat Axis unity-destroying lies, particularly lies about England and Russia.