Nations, will need to summon all their courage during the next few months.
a am cdtivaneed that the summer and fall of 1946 will be a ne, of oe
promo erisis for us all. “Bator Like the prize-fightecr who realizes

he is on the verge of being knocked out, is gathering al) his remaining
forces for one last desperate ict There is abject fear in the heart

of the madman and a growing discontent among his sce as he ecules
for his last all-out offensive.

We may be sure that Hitler and Japan will cooperate to do the ume}
expected -- perhaps an attack by Japan against Alaska and our Northwest
coast at a time when German transport planes will be shuttled across
from Dakar to furnish Leadership and stiffening to a German uprising
inten America. In any event, the psychological and sabotage offensive
in the Unitcd States and Latin America will be timed to coincide with,
"or anticipate by a few weeks, the height of the military offensive.

We must be especially prepared to stifle the fifth columists in
the United States who will try to sabotage not mercly our war matcrial
plants, but cven more important, our minds. We must be prepared for
the worst kita of fifth column work in Latin America, much ae 4k oper=
‘ating through the agency of governments with which the United States at
present is at peace. When I say this, I recognize that the peoples,
both of Latin America and of the nations supporting the agencies through
which the fifth columists work, are overwhelmingly on the side of the
democracies. We must expect the offensive against us on the military,
‘obs and sabotage fronts, both in the United States and in Latin
America, to reach its apex some time during the next few months. The
convulsive efforts of the dying madman wilt be go great that some of

us may be deceived intc thinking that the situation is bad at a time