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TO GEORGE WASHINGTON. BICENTENARY CELEBRATION. .United press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) WASHINGTON, February 22. President Hoover addressed a joint session of Congress on llie oecasion ol the bicentennial i(nniiversary M tlm birth of George Washington. Mr Hoover said that lie lia ( | “little patience with those who undertake the irrational iiuinnnmiig of the man.” He expressed an objection to recent historical studies which pictured Washington as being more or less an ordinary country squire, and then lie launched into a eulogy. He said: “What wc have need of 10-chiv in this celebration is to renew in our people the inspiration that comes from George Washington as a founder of human liberty, as the lather of a system of national life.
Proudly we report to Pur forefathers that the republic is more secure, more powerful, more truly 'great than at any other time in its history. It is of primary importance that we of to-day shall renew that spark of immortal purpose, which burned within him, that we shall know of the resolution and steadfastness which carried him forward to the establishment of our nation.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 February 1932, Page 5
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