Our Buddies Need Weapons, And They Need Them Now
- FDR set up an organization to help with increasing production of munitions, because dedicating lots of money, as well as presidential support, isn't enough. Hundreds of thousands of American workers will be essential to the process, and the government and U.S. industry have been cooperating in order to make it happen.
- American industrial genius is unmatched around the world, and the time's come to prove it. Manufacturers of watches and farm equipment and automobiles will start making fuses and shells and pistols and tanks.
- The Allies need more of everything, so there's no more "business as usual" in U.S. manufacturing, and there can't be any more of it in the minds of the American people. Meeting these needs now will save lots of trouble later—and the U.S. will still need the new productive capacity in peacetime.
- America's new purpose is to build everything necessary for defense, and to build it quickly. The U.S. has the manpower, the wealth, and the will to make it happen.