US Naval Reserve Midshipmens School - Capstan Yearbook (Notre Dame, IN)

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Zine Lette? world for which you light+and for which some of you give your lives-will not come merely because we shall have won the war. It will not come merely because we wish very hard that it would come. It will be made possi- ble only by bold vision, intelligent planning, and hard work. It cannot be brought about overnight, but only by years of effort and perseverance and unfaltering faith. You young soldiers and sailors, farmers and factory workers, artists and scholars, who are fighting our way to victory now, all of you will have to take your part in shaping that world. You will earn it by what you do nowg but you will not attain it if you leave the job for others to do alone. When you lay aside your gun at the end of the war, you cannot at the same time lay aside your duty to the future . . . Today the embattled youth of Russia and China are realizing a new individual dignity, casting off the last links of the ancient chains of imperial despotism which had bound them so long. I This is a development of historic importance. It means that the old term, West- ern civilizationf' no longer applies. World events and the common needs of all humanity are joining the culture of Asia with the culture of Europe and of the Americas to form, for the first time, a real world civilization. ?Franklin Delano Roosevelt, September 3, 1942 5'1 -niet: - J 5.4 L ,ya OFFICIAL U. l l5l MY SIGNAL

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N HONORABLE FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT Preszdenl Qf the United Szfales Qf America Commander-In-Cfzid, United States Nelly

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, X - REAR ADMIRAL RANDALL JACOBS, U.S.N. Chiqf qt .NdUdf Personnel HONORABLE FRANK KNOX Secretagf Qf the Nazgf