DEMOCRATIC RULE

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 42, 13 November 1940, Page 7

DEMOCRATIC RULE

President Roosevelt’s Faith LONDON, November 11. President Roosevelt, speaking at an Armistice Day service in Washington today, after laying a wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldier at tlie Arlington National Cemetery, spoke of a new order different from that of the Axis Powers. Those who bud fought in the Great War, he said, bad preserved an order for at least a generation, and they were still lighting to preserve an order intact.

"I do not believe it would be possible to revert either to a modern form of ancient slavery or Io controls vested in modern emperors, modern dictators, or modern oligarchs,” President Roosevelt said. "Tlie very people under their iron heels will rebel.”

He said that lie did not believe that democracy would disappear in our lifetime or that mere force would succeed.

The attempt made in 11)14 to destroy democracy bad failed. Had It succeeded, the Allied nations would never have had it chance to fight in 19-10. Mr. Roosevelt concluded: “We recognize certain facts in 1940 which did not exist in 1918 —a need for the elimination of aggressive armaments, a need for the breaking down of barriers in a more closely knit world, a need for restoring honour in the written and spoken word.”