DESPERATE NEED.
GUARD CIVILISATION.
Mr. Cordell Hull's Warning To America. MENACING SHADOW'S ADVANCE United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 10 a.m.) CAMBRIDGF (Mass.), June 20. Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, in a speech at the Harvard University graduation ceremony, said: "The forces of lust for tyrannical power are a menace to modern civilisation, but, whatever the hardships and trial% the cause of human freedom will triumph. "Never was there more desperate needs for men and nations loving freedom and cherishing the tenets of modern civilisation to gather into an unconquerable defensive force every element of their spiritual and material resources, and moral and physical strength," declared Mr. Hull. "There is no move 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 on more of the earth's surface, as the menacing shadow grows blacker and blacker athwart our continent, the instinct of self-preservation bid* us beware."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 146, 21 June 1940, Page 7
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169DESPERATE NEED. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 146, 21 June 1940, Page 7
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