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　　therefore, as your president, performing my constitutional duty to “。 i find it unhappily necessary to report that the future and the safety of our country and of our democracy are overwhelmingly involved in events far beyond our borders.
　　armed defense of democratic existence is now being gallantly waged in four continents. if that defense fails, all the population and all the resources of europe and asia, africa and australia will be dominated by conquerors. and let us remember that the total of those populations in those four continents, the total of those populations and their resources greatly exceeds the sum total of the population and the resources of the whole of the western hemisphereyes, many times over.
　　in times like these it is immature and, incidentally, untruefor anybody to brag that an unprepared america, singlehanded and with one hand tied behind its back, can hold off the whole world.
　　no realistic american can expect from a dictatoramp。s peace international generosity, or return of true independence, or world disarmament, or freedom of expression, or freedom of religionor even good business. such a peace would bring no security for us or for our neighbors. those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
　　as a nation we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted。39。 in other cases there are slight but not serious delays. and in some casesand, i am sorry to say, very important cases we are all concerned by the slowness of the acplishment of our plans.
　　the army and navy, however, have made substantial progress during the past year. actual experience is improving and speeding up our methods of production with every passing day. and todayamp。s best is not good enough for tomorrow.
　　i am not satisfied with the progress thus far made. the men in charge of the program represent the best in training, in ability and in patriotism. they are not satisfied with the progress thus far made. none of us will be satisfied until the job is done.
　　no matter whether the original goal was set too high or too low, our objective is quicker and better results.
　　to give you two illustrations:
　　we are behind schedule in turning out finished airplanes.
　　we are working day and night to solve the innumerable problems and to catch up.
　　we are ahead of schedule in building warships, but we are working to get even further ahead of that schedule.
　　to change a whole nation from a basis of peacetime production of implements of peace to a basis of wartime production of implements of war is no small task. the greatest difficulty es at the beginning of the program, when new tools, and new plant facilities, new assembly lines, new shipways must first be constructed before the actual material begins to flow steadily and speedily from them.
　　the congress of course, must rightly keep itself informed at all times of the progress of the program. however, there is certain information, as the congress itself will readily recognize, which, in the interests of our own security and those of the nations that we are supporting, must of needs be kept in confidence.
　　new circumstances are constantly begetting new needs for our safety. i shall ask this congress for greatly increased new appropriations and authorizations to carry on what we have begun.
　　i also ask this congress for authority and for funds sufficient to manufacture additional munitions and war supplies of many kinds, to be turned over to those nations which are now in actual war with aggressor nations. our most useful and immediate role is to act as an arsenal for them as well as for ourselves. they do not need manpower, but they do need billions of dollarsamp。 worth of the weapons of defense.
　　the time is near when they will not be able to pay for them all in ready cash. we cannot, and w