NAVAL MESSAGE
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INDUCED BY LOSS MILLIONS HUSBANDS OR SONS BY FOUR YEARS STARVATION
ECONOMY MISERY AND LONG YEARS PAINFUL RECONSTRUCTION SUFFERED
DURING POST WAR PERIOD THESE MEMORIES NATURALLY POWERFUL IN
STIMULATING EVERY MANS IMAGINATION IN EUROPE FOR CONSEQUENCES
PRESENT WAR X IF WAR GETS UNDER WAY WITH REALLY AGGRESSIVE
MILITARY ACTION ON BOTH SIDES CONSEQUENCES OF PENDING WAR WILL BE
FAR MORE DISASTROUS THAN OTHER WAR FOR TWO REASONS FIRST
TECHNIQUES OF SLAUGHTERING MAIMING GREAT MASSES OF PEOPLE
MULTIPLIED DURING PAST TWENTY YEARS IN HORROR EFFECTIVENESS SECOND
EUROPE BEGAN WAR IN FOURTEEN WITH SOME ECONOMIC FAT ON ITS BONES
BEGINS THIS WAR WITH SCARCELY ECONOMIC SKIN ON ITS BONES IS POVERTY
STRICKEN NOW AS YOU KNOW MR PRESIDENT FROM ORDINARY ECONOMIC
INDICES X THIS POVERTY HAS COME UNDER MY OWN PERSONAL OBSERVATION
SCORES OF TIMES IN THESE PAST YEARS PARTICULARLY IN THE BELLIGERENT
COUNTRIES WHERE I AM NECESSARILY BROUGHT FACE TO FACE WITH
STANDARDS OF LIVING AMONG WAGE EARNERS AND SALARIED EMPLOYEES X
ENGLAND AND FRANCE GERMANY ARE