United States. President Roosevelt reads his State of the Union address. Speaking more slowly than usual and enunciating his words, he speaks of Japan’s modest dreams compared to the gigantic aspirations of Hitler’s Germany and the Nazis, a kind of pagan religion. The militarists of Berlin and Tokyo started this war, but the united forces of the rest of humanity will finish it. Every available factory must be converted to military production. The nation needs 60,000 airplanes and 45,000 tanks next year, and 125,000 airplanes and 75,000 tanks the year after that. This will require more than half the national GDP. We have already tasted defeat at Pearl Harbor. There will be others. It will be a long, costly, and bloody war. But the alternative is tyranny and cruelty. A Gallup poll shows that American approval is 84% to 9% against. Roosevelt does not want to call it the Second World War, after the Great War, and prefers Survival War: the war for the survival of our civilization.
