position in the past isolated us from Europe and the other continents.    
Modern communications have forced us from our isolation into world affairs.  
  We are learning.  One of the first lessons we have grasped is this:that   
cunningly timed and craftily planned peace proposals may be used by   
faithless agressors as instruments of war.  A peace move may be a snare;  
 for th eNazis, it has always been a part of military strategy.  Their   
reord in Austria, Czechoslovakia, Ploand ans elsewhere is too resent to be   
forgotten.  Japan talked peace to us at Washington while she was preparing   
and consummating the treachery of Pearl Harbor.  Thus world experience of   
Axis "peace" has been bitter. In our case it has also been salutary.    
Since the Nazis, Conscious of their waning power are likely to be   
searching for an intermediary to put forth peace-fellers, it is well that   
those whom we trust should know in advance the position of the United   
States Government on any tentative proposal from such a source:  we shall   
not be led away from principle by any stop-gap peace.  Our Christian   
ideals, as well as our national existence, would be in jeopardy if we   
consented to forego now our manifest advantages.  An indecisive peace  
 would be a partial victory for the Axis, and would lead later to a   
resumption of the conflict under conditions which might be disadvantageous   
to us and what we stand for.  We want none of it. We wil hav enothing of   
an armed truce which would be a breathing space for the enemies of   
Christain Civilization.  We will not permit Axis grand strategy, which   
includes in its arsenal the hypocrisy of false peace, to hold in   
initiative in the conduct of this war. We have determined   
                            that