ndly strength.
?Even when the World War broke out in 1914 it seemed to contain only small threat of danger to our own American future.? But as time went on, as we remember, the American people began to visualize what the downfall of democratic nations might mean to our own democracy.
?We need not overemphasize imperfections in the peace of Versailles.? We need not harp on failure of the democracies to deal with problems of world reconstruction.? We should remember that the peace of 1919 was far less unjust than the kind of pacification which began even before Munich, and which is being carried on under the new order of tyranny that seeks to spread over every continent today.
?The American people have unalterably set their faces against that tyranny.
?I suppose that every realist knows that the democratic way of life is at this moment being directly assailed in every part of the world—assailed either by arms or by secret spreading of poisonous propaganda by those who s
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