DESPERATE NEED
UNITED ACTION BY FREE NATIONS AGAINST BRUTE FORCE AND TYRANNY. DECLARATION BY MR HULL. (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) CAMBRIDGE (Mass), June 20. The Secretary of State, Mr Cordell Hull, at the Harvard degree giving ceremony, said: “The massed forces of lust for tyrannical power are a menace to modern civilisation, but whatever the hardships and trials the cause of human freedom will triumph. There was never a more desperate need for the men of nations loving freedom
and cherishing the tenets of modern civilisation to gather into an unconquerable defensive force every element of spiritual and material resources and moral and physical strength. There is no more dangerous folly than to think that America’s achievements can be preserved by isolation. Nation after nation has been crushed, overrun and enslaved by brute force, combined with fraud and guile. As dismal darkness descends more on the earth’s surface, as a menacing shadow blacker and blacker athwart our continent, the instinct for self-preservation bids us beware.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 June 1940, Page 5
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