Michigan police alert for escaped Germans
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Another AEF lands safely at Irish port
Pennsylvanians included; Allies are winning Atlantic battle
By Leo S. Disher, United Press staff writer
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U.S.-Russian congratulatory texts revealed
Both sides pleased by results of Molotov’s mission here
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Bride who fled from Singapore hears from parents feared lost
Is frequent guest speaker of clubs
By Anne Weiss
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Wartime regulations liberal at ocean city
Diversified schedule of pageants and sporting events planned for entire summer – sailing becoming more popular
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President Roosevelt’s radio address on United Flag Day
June 14, 1942
Audio of the speech:
Today on Flag Day we celebrate the declaration of the United Nations – that great alliance dedicated to the defeat of our foes and to the establishment of a true peace based on the freedom of man. Today the Republic of Mexico and the Commonwealth of the Philippine Islands join us. We welcome these valiant peoples to the company of those who fight for freedom.
The four freedoms of common humanity are as much elements of man’s needs as air and sunlight, bread and salt. Deprive him of all these freedoms and he dies – deprive him of a part of them and a part of him withers. Give them to him in full and abundant measure and he will cross the threshold of a new age, the greatest age of man.
These freedoms are the rights of men of every creed and every race, wherever they live. This is their heritage, long withheld. We of the United Nations have the power and the men and the will at last to assure man’s heritage.
The belief in the four freedoms of common humanity – the belief in man, created free, in the image of God – is the crucial difference between ourselves and the enemies we face today. In it lies the absolute unity of our alliance, opposed to the oneness of the evil we hate. Here is our strength, the source and promise of victory.
We of the United Nations know that our faith cannot be broken by any man or any force. And we know that there are other millions who in their silent captivity share our belief.
We ask the German people, still dominated by their Nazi whipmasters, whether they would rather have the mechanized hell of Hitler’s “New” Order or – in place of that, freedom of speech and religion, freedom from want and from fear.
We ask the Japanese people, trampled by their savage lords of slaughter, whether they would rather continue slavery and blood or – in place of them, freedom of speech and religion, freedom from want and from fear.
We ask the brave, unconquered people of the nations the Axis invaders have dishonored and despoiled whether they would rather yield to conquerors or – have freedom of speech and religion, freedom from want and from fear.
We know the answer. They know the answer. We know that man, born to freedom in the image of God, will not forever suffer the oppressors’ sword. The peoples of the United Nations are taking that sword from the oppressors’ hands. With it they will destroy those tyrants. The brazen tyrannies pass. Man marches forward toward the light.
I am going to close by reading you a prayer that has been written for the United Nations on this Day:
God of the free, we pledge our hearts and lives today to the cause of all free mankind.
Grant us victory over the tyrants who would enslave all free men and nations. Grant us faith and understanding to cherish all those who fight for freedom as if they were our brothers. Grant us brotherhood in hope and union, not only for the space of this bitter war, but for the days to come which shall and must unite all the children of earth.
Our earth is but a small star in the great universe. Yet of it we can make, if we choose, a planet unvexed by war, untroubled by hunger or fear, undivided by senseless distinctions of race, color, or theory. Grant us that courage and foreseeing to begin this task today that our children and our children’s children may be proud of the name of man.
The spirit of man has awakened and the soul of man has gone forth. Grant us the wisdom and the vision to comprehend the greatness of man’s spirit, that suffers and endures so hugely for a goal beyond his own brief span. Grant us honor for our dead who died in the faith, honor for our living who work and strive for the faith, redemption and security for all captive lands and peoples. Grant us patience with the deluded and pity for the betrayed. And grant us the skill and the valor that shall cleanse the world of oppression and the old base doctrine that the strong must eat the weak because they are strong.
Yet most of all grant us brotherhood, not only for this day but for all our years- a brotherhood not of words but of acts and deeds. We are all of us children of earth – grant us that simple knowledge. If our brothers are oppressed, then we are oppressed. If they hunger, we hunger. If their freedom is taken away, our freedom is not secure. Grant us a common faith that man shall know bread and peace – that he shall know justice and righteousness, freedom and security, an equal opportunity and an equal chance to do his best, not only in our own lands, but throughout the world. And in that faith let us march, toward the clean world our hands can make. Amen.
Völkischer Beobachter (June 15, 1942)
Fortschreitende Schiffsraumnot in den USA. –
Washington übt sich in Selbstbetrug
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U.S. War Department (June 15, 1942)
General MacArthur’s Headquarters
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U.S. Navy Department (June 15, 1942)
Navy Communiqué No. 89
North Pacific area.
The Army and Navy are continuing air attacks against the Japanese forces which recently were reported to have landed on western islands of the Aleutian group.
Foul weather and fog, characteristic of this locality at all seasons, are hampering our reconnaissance and attack operations, but reports to date indicate that at least three cruisers, one destroyer, one gunboat, and one transport have been damaged, some of them severely.
Except for these continuing air attacks upon the enemy landing parties and their supporting naval contingents, the general situation in the Aleutian Islands appears unchanged.
The Pittsburgh Press (June 15, 1942)
U.S. to shun back-bending war payment
American resources nearing float stage, Lend-Lease report shows
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LATE BULLETINS!
Stockholm, June 15 –
The pro-Nazi puppet regime of Vidkun Quisling in Norway has appealed for aid from German troops after bloody street fighting between Quislingites and Norwegian patriots in the towns of Rissa and Selbu near Trondheim, advices from Oslo said today.
Washington, June 15 –
The Senate today approved and sent to the House a conference report on the bill authorizing payment of allowances to dependents of men in the armed services. The bill would provide payments beginning at $50 a month to a wife without children. Additional allowances would be granted for other dependents.
Washington, June 15 –
The Treasury today suggested, without making definite recommendations, that excise taxes could be imposed on sugar, salt, tea, coffee, electric power, fuel gas, barber and beauty shop services and similar items to make up the $2-billion deficiency in the 1942 war revenue program.