FIGHT FOR LIBERTY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 December 1941, Page 6

FIGHT FOR LIBERTY

AMERICAN RESOLUTION

AFFIRMED BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. ANNIVERSARY OF THE BILL OF RIGHTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, Noon.) WASHINGTON, December 15. “America will not lay down her arms before liberty is once again secure in the world,” said President Roosevelt, broadcasting on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Bill of Rights. “No date in the long history of freedom means more to liberty-loving men in all liberty-loving countries than December 15, 1791. On that day a new nation, through its elected Congress, adopted a declaration of human rights which has influenced the thinking of all mankind. Indeed prior to 1933 the essential validity of the American Bill of Rights was accepted, at least in principle. Even today, with the exception of Germany, Italy and Japan, the common peoples of the world support its principles, its teachings and its glorious results, but in 1933 there came to power in Germany a political clique which did not accept the declarations of the American Bill of human rights as valid —a small clique of ambitious and unscrupulous politicians whose platform was precisely the destruction of the rights that instrument declared.”