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rzttE are like a monstrous, ill-propor- tioned Rip van Winkle ouakening to find himself among strangers Ivho do not love him. We have not solved our problems, we have not learned enough about our Olvn people, our Olvn customs, our OIvn needs, our own demands-c-nou: there is not time. We are, in 1941, the only people in the world living as free men and women, able to Ivalk erect, to speak our own faith, and to lvorshi/J at our own altars. Three centuries oj free- dom from Old World race problems and hatreds are over - rue have lost our isolation, our chance to work out our THE PRESIDENT SIGNS H. R. 1776 destiny alone. What does it mean? From Maine to California, from Canada to Mexico, the North, the Soiuh; the East and the West-each one oj the 1/10 million people in our land is going to be called upon for every poioer, every strength, every ability he possesses to preserve the last free nation in the world Jrom assault. America has lvith. stood challenges in the past. With her ideals oj democracy reevaluated, she confidently Jaces the [iuure-s-unajraid: