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SHELTER FOR MAGNA CARTA. For the duration of the war, comments the “New York Times,” the Lincoln Cathedral transcript of Magna Carta, which thrilled so many millions in the British Pavilion at the New York World's Fair, will be guarded in the National Library of Congress. This precious relic of the Anglo-Saxon race, the parent cell through which our liberties have been transmitted into the living body of democratic law. has been placed appropriately among the archives which hold Americas own precious relics, the Constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence. It is a long way from Runnymede to the totalitarian assault on the ordered freedom which Magna Carta foreshadowed. It has taken many centuries to establish the representative government of free men now challenged once again. Wherever Magna Carta rests, wherever it is accepted as the foundation stone of the slowlybuilt wall against anarchy and despotism alike, is a strong citadel. It could not be sheltered in a stouter stronghold than on the hill where the Capitol stands and from which American laws descend. Magna Carta, dated A.D. 1215, and the latest law which comes from Congress are of the same fabric.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 January 1940, Page 6
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