Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States.

Ladies and gentlemen, today in pursuance of my constitutional duty,

I sent to the Congress a message on the State of the Union.

And this evening I am taking the opportunity to repeat to you some parts of that message. This war must be waged, it is being waged with the greatest

and most persistent intensity. Everything we are, everything we have is at stake.

Everything we are and have will be given.

We have no question of the ultimate victory. We have no question of the cost.

Our losses will be heavy.

But we and our allies will go on fighting together to ultimate total victory.

We have seen a year marked on the whole by substantial progress toward victory, even though

the year ended with a setback for our arms when the Germans launched a ferocious

convert attack into Luxembourg and Belgium with the obvious objectives of cutting our line in the center.

Our men are fought with indescribable and unforgettable gallantry under most difficult conditions. The high tide of this German attack was reached two days after Christmas.

Since then we have reassumed the offensive. We have rescued the isolated garrison at Bastodny, and

forced a German withdrawal along most of the line of the salient, the speed with which we have recovered from this savage attack was

possible primarily because we have one supreme commander in complete control of all the Allied armies in France.

General Eisenhower has faced this period of trial with admirable calm and

resolution and a steadily increasing success,

he has my complete confidence.

Further desperate attempts may well be made and are being made to break our lines to slow our progress.

We must never make the mistake of assuming that the Germans are beaten until the last Nazi has surrendered. And I would express a most

serious warning against the poisonous effects of enemy propaganda.

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