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The same unity based on high purpose pervades all the people of the   
United States. Contrary to Axis propaganda claims, the vast majority of   
our people are responsive to Christian inspiriation, even though many may   
not be practical church-goers. The axis charge that there are sixty million  
Atheists in the united States is sheer nonsense--a perversion of statistics  
on church membership and attendance by which the persecutors of   
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It would be equally misleading for outsiders to be influenced by axis   
propaganda about political differences in the United States. we are a   
democracy and even in war time we insist upon our political freedom.   
Members of the Democratic and Republican political parties are even now   
contending for many public offices, and no one, whatever his position or   
power, can or will force the people to vote in any predetermined manner.   
We glory in that freedom.It is a practical demonstration of the liberty   
we are fighting to preserve. But let it be remembered that in these   
political contests no candidate would have the slightest chance of   
election unless he declared himself to be whole-heartedly in favor of the   
national war effort. Only recently, the whole country applauded the court   
prosecution and punshment of certain men who had tried to sabotage our   
national unity. In fact, any individual or group who whould presume to go   
against that unity or suggest compromise with the enemy would invite the   
odium of his fellow citizens, would be thoroughly discredited as a   
patriotic American and would forever disqualify himself from any further   
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Finally, our certainty of victory is based upon military considerations.   
The justice of our cause and the unbreakable unity of our people are   
supported now by a growing military establishment which, when it reaches   
its peak, as shortly it will, cannot be withstood. Germnay has already   
lost heavily in men and in material; Her war industry and Her resevoir of   
man power have been tapped to the intact, fully mobilized and in crescendo.  
Above all she has to face America. With four million five hundred thousand  
men under arms, we have not yet called but a small part of our man power.   
And the youth of America knows machines. Our production of the engines of   
the war has already surpassed the forecast of the President which but a   
few months ago seemed fantastic. Our shipyards are producing ocean-going   
ships for combat and commerce at a rate hitherto undreamed of. The entire   
industy of the world's greatest industrial nation is now directed to one   
only objective--to manufacture, by mass production methods in which we   
excel, the implements of war. We have only begun and yet we have already   
surpassed the arms output of Germany at Her peak. The world has never   
                   seen such an avalanche